Wouter de Winther: Spring memorandum is perverse politics | Columns

It was a special display during Rutte I, that afternoon in a café-restaurant near the Lower House. After their pleasant lunch, representatives of the culture sector went to MediaCentrum Nieuwspoort, where they would give an indignant press conference about the upcoming cutbacks of VVD, CDA and PVV. But the bottles of white wine that were on the table turned out not to be empty. They were quickly grabbed together with some glasses. On to the location where people would go to battle against the bite that The Hague wanted to take out of their budget.