Some parties come up with their own solutions to problems. We will often hear Rob Jetten from D66 in the coming weeks about the ten new cities that have to solve the home crisis. In the meantime, nine cities have already disappeared and it is mainly about IJ city, somewhere between Almere and Amsterdam.
Last week Ja21 suddenly also came up with its own solution. During a game of out-of-the-box thinking on the Hei, they will have come across the Guyanaplan of Anton Mussert and have started to tilt it. (NSB leader Anton Mussert wanted to transform British-Guiana, Frans-Guyana and Suriname into a home country for European Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. The solution of JA21 for the asylum crisis is called Zambia.
Zambia is located in the middle of Africa and has 13 million inhabitants and, according to Eerdmans, they have room for a lot more. On Friday evening he explained his plan at Sven Kockelmann. He gave up high about this well -developed country. According to Eerdmans, Zambia is much further than Rwanda, where some other politicians want to bring “our asylum seekers”. Because they are better developed in Zambia, that makes a forced movement a lot more ‘more human’. And that is what Joost Eerdmans thinks, because Ja21 is a party with the heart in the right place. With a trip to Zambia you actually do asylum seekers a pleasure. Zambia is secretly so attractive that it is a mystery why African asylum seekers do not travel directly to Zambia.
Is Eerdmans aware of the situation in Zambia?, Kockelmann asked. Joost Eerdmans, without blinking with the eyes: “I have serious contacts there, yes.”
A day later, Margje Fikse looked into her by Tijs van den Brink inherited program This is the week Together with Diederik Boomsma – formerly CDA, then NSC, now on the list of JA21 – to images of that conversation from a day earlier.
“So Zambia,” said Margje.
“Yes, Zambia,” said Boomsma, who had also heard his leader say.
I had already heard more about Zambia within 24 hours than in the months before. Zambia is the IJ city of JA21, it’s just a matter of getting used to.
I was reminded of the ‘environment’. It was suddenly there in my Worms years. You no longer had to make an appointment with the bulky waste, but you could also throw your old fridge in the right hole. And that was nice too. You were lost, you didn’t have to worry about it and it was even better for the environment.
Easy solutions for difficult problems? Joost Eerdmans calls, who has serious connections.
Marcel van Roosmalen Writes a column on Monday and Thursday.