Conflict TV is always about respect for each other and the rules

What requirements must the solution of a crisis meet? In any case, there must be ‘respect for each other’, the solution must be ‘sustainable’, preferably taking ‘the climate’ into account, as one day of conflict TV shows. Two-thirds of the Volt faction have come to the conclusion that Nilüfer Gündogan, after publishing a NRC-article has treated the experiences of at least five reporters with disrespect, who say that the MP has behaved across borders. The faction has been arguing for months and the judge ruled at the beginning of March that the suspension of Gündogan from the Chamber faction did not comply with the rules. “We do not share the same values,” party chairman Laurens Dassen told the camera of the on Tuesday NOS News† He and Marieke Koekkoek had recently expelled their colleague from the group according to the rules, because they no longer had faith in a sustainable working climate with Gündogan, who was in bed with a high fever.

In Ulft, emotions also ran high because of a fence that protrudes thirteen centimeters over the official line from where a communal footpath starts. Cross-border behaviour, but of a different order. In the first episode of the new season of The driving judge (KRO-NCRV) we see Johan Kuijer who has a problem with two of his neighbors. The boundary line in question was formed in 1979, according to a man from the Land Registry. In that ominous year, more seeds for conflict were planted, although most of them have not yet been resolved. The question is whether this neighbor dispute has a fair chance of being settled. You hardly get them more stubborn than Kuijer, he also turns out to be a bad listener. And no, it’s not because of his hearing aid. The old man firmly believes that he is right, because he appeals to “the rules”. Driving judge John Reid concludes that the fence can remain standing, there is no question of a disturbed view.

Little pyromaniac

However, Kuijer is right in the case of another fence, through which annoying fluorescent light shines. The owner of that plot, who calls himself ‘a little pyromaniac’, also likes to light some fires in the garden, but has to approach it differently from now on on the advice of a heating expert. Two thirds of Kuijer’s grievances turned out to be justified, peace in Ulft? He himself thought that the statement was incorrect, he snapped at Reid. Small chance that the living climate there has improved.

What is certainly not true is that in the Netherlands no less than 39 million square meters is empty, while there is a shortage of 300,000 homes. The last episode of Half Holland Homeless (VPRO) allows all kinds of creative crisis solvers to have their say. They are currently running into a wall of rules. Hugo de Jonge, brand new CDA minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, wants to see the harshness of this, because those rules apparently strengthen ‘the law of the strongest’. Yet as a viewer you are left with the feeling that national politics is not fully aware of the seriousness of the crisis. We mainly hear concrete solutions from a young CDA alderman from Bergen in North Holland, and from architects and desperate house hunters. Think of the splitting up of houses for elderly people living at home, a municipality that wants to allow the squatting of vacant buildings and allow them to occupy holiday homes. But before that can happen, the rules must first be changed. The prejudice that the elderly are inflexible is shattered by two parents of a young couple living in a tiny house wants to live. The parents are about to sell their house​—after the children have fledged, a large house “only provides ballast.” They want the proceeds tiny houses build a plot for themselves and the children. Here too, the zoning plan must first be adjusted, which takes a long time. Rules are rules.

This column will be written by various authors until April 25.

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