In fact, people like Wilders and Erdogan feed off each other. One's rhetoric pumps up the other's and viceversa. It's a love-to-hate-me, symbiotic type of indirect relationship.
I hope you guys have used the last few months to prepare yourselves better for possible pressure on your borders, because Erdogan seems to be growing increasingly irrational and unpredictable. There used to be a time when he was considered mostly pragmatic, but not any more.
Prepared? We haven't even completed our fence along the border (not that it would've helped much without the necessary manpower to operate it).
We're with our pants down. OK, maybe half-down. There's no "solidarity" and help expected to come from Europe which seems more divided and irresolute than ever. We're on our own. Which is why we're walking on a rope here, constantly giving our ass to our bigger neighbors hoping to appease them. And their demands keep growing.
Something is going to snap. I don't know when, but it will.
The exciting news is that Groenlinks also is showing 20, so they will likely be part of the coalition. AFAIK no one wants to make a government with PVV, am hoping that will mean that VVD will choose appropriately among the second runners and also that the center-left will easier coalesce with VVD than with PVV.
Other that the typical stuff known about the PVV, I don't know of any political platform points that mean anything from them. The big loser in this race has been the labour party, they used to have the biggest support in Amsterdam but over the last decade they've lost almost 3/4ths of their seats (mostly to the VVD).
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Got anything new up your sleeve, Recep? Didn't think so.
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We're with our pants down. OK, maybe half-down. There's no "solidarity" and help expected to come from Europe which seems more divided and irresolute than ever. We're on our own. Which is why we're walking on a rope here, constantly giving our ass to our bigger neighbors hoping to appease them. And their demands keep growing.
Something is going to snap. I don't know when, but it will.
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http://frontbencher.nl/peilingen/
The exciting news is that Groenlinks also is showing 20, so they will likely be part of the coalition. AFAIK no one wants to make a government with PVV, am hoping that will mean that VVD will choose appropriately among the second runners and also that the center-left will easier coalesce with VVD than with PVV.
http://www.coalitiemeter.nl/#/160/PVV
Other that the typical stuff known about the PVV, I don't know of any political platform points that mean anything from them. The big loser in this race has been the labour party, they used to have the biggest support in Amsterdam but over the last decade they've lost almost 3/4ths of their seats (mostly to the VVD).
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