Wierd Duk is in danger of being expelled from Today Inside by Johan Derksen now that he is busy establishing a new conservative movement. “Then you have to wonder whether he is still credible.”
Telegraaf star Wierd Duk will retire next year, but does not want to sit at home unemployed. That is why he is working on a new conservative movement, including a media platform and accompanying talk show. The goal? A ‘culture warwin. “I feel and notice very strongly that we are giving away our country, out of a kind of pure indifference.”
LGBTI madness
Wierd was recently present at a meeting for orthodox Christians in Gouda, where he advocated the establishment of a new conservative Christian pillar, ‘with its own institutions and media, where non-Christians are also welcome’.
Christian entrepreneur Wilco Boender of the De Leskamer foundation, who organized the evening, sees something in this. He says in it A.D: “I see a need among many believers for an offensive Christianity that makes its voice heard for the traditional family, pro-life, against LGBTI madness and woke culture.”
Wierd left VI?
However, Christians are not often invited to talk show tables to make their voices heard, Wilco complains. “If someone like Wierd Duk defends those values, I can live with that.”
However, it remains to be seen whether Wierd can continue to do that at Today Inside, because there they view his new career move quite skeptically. “Wierd Duk is going to start an organization with conservative and strict Christian people,” Wilfred Genee notes in the Today Inside from last night.
Pastor’s son
What does Johan Derksen think about that? “Yes, I think it’s a problem… Wierd is the son of a pastor and of course something about your upbringing always lingers. I think it’s a strange idea. I think: you can’t object to a conservative movement if it is healthy conservatism. But I do resent the fact that he gives it a truly Christian twist.”
The VI mustache continues: “He has been to Gouda. Well, they are not more Christian than in Gouda and if you get that, then you have euthanasia and abortion and you get that discussion again. Well, we have had that. That has been arranged, but then you get all that bullshit from the Christian Union and the SGP again.”
Charlie Kirk
Wilfred thinks it is a strange state of affairs. “It’s a bit Charlie Kirk-esque what he wants, right? That’s the idea?”
Johan: “If you are looking for a conservative club for yourself… I am a member of the VVD, I think that is tired of being conservative.”
Wilfred: “I am very curious about what he wants to achieve with it.”
Table guest Job Knoester: “Maybe get people moving. He is already doing a lot of work on that, also on social media.”
Johan: “It is also his fight against woke and against Schimmelpenninck.”
Job: “Yes, but you can also go a bit too far.”
Dangerous idea
René van der Gijp also points out that Wierd is against Islam. Wilfred: “He always talks about political Islam. And against the woke movement.”
Job: “But if he wants to become Charlie Kirk, then he has a chance of success, because he was quite big in America. If you strike the right note, then it could well be…”
Johan: “Wierd’s message has a large target group in the Netherlands. It is not an indecent idea of him, but I think it is a dangerous idea.”
VI dismissal
Wilfred then threatens Wierd with his departure from VI. “He will explain it this week, but it could also be… Does it still fit?”
Johan: “Oh no, if he set up that organization, then you have to wonder whether someone who fights for it is still credible here at a talk show table.”
Wilfred concludes: “That makes it complicated, yes. All those people who just start making moves and stuff… What do they want from these guys?”