Joop van den Ende lashes out really hard at Geert Wilders from behind his walker. He even calls the PVV leader a ‘cancer’. “It’s nothing at all, just screaming,” the billionaire said.
It is a great relief for Joop van den Ende that the PVV’s participation in government has come to an end. When he is asked whether the country has benefited from Geert Wilders’ party, the theater and media billionaire answers de Volkskrant exceptionally resolute: “Nothing! They achieved zero things, zero.”
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Such a politician is of absolutely no use to you, according to Joop. “Geert Wilders is the worst thing that happened to the Netherlands. He had the chance twice and he didn’t take that chance twice. It’s nothing at all, just screaming. It’s a tumor.”
According to him, that cabinet with the PVV was nothing to look at anyway. Too many cuts have been made to the NPO, he thinks. “Those cuts, isn’t that pure censorship? And all because of that retarded broadcasting law of that lunatic who was minister for six months, what’s his name again…”
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Which crazy person exactly? Eppo Bruins? “Exactly, Bruins. What a huge… well, never mind. It is ignorance, real ignorance. There is a report in a drawer from 2023, which was drawn up under the leadership of Pieter van Geel of the CDA. That is a very nuanced report. (…) But that proposal that Bruins has made is rubbish.”
However, no one is as evil as Wilders, says Joop. Is he also angry with his voters? “You can’t blame those people for that. I never blame the public for anything, never. The people who are responsible do.”
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The people en masse fall for Wilders’ talk, according to Joop. “Wilders is a populist. He touches on points and people think: yes! It is being said! But just saying it is of no use. You have to solve it. The old politics understood far too late that you have to speak the language of the people.”
He concludes: “The PvdA was a party for the workers. I voted for Wim Kok a few times, I thought he was a good guy. Now that party is talking about gender-neutral toilets…”