Georgina Verbaan does not believe a word of Geert Wilders’ moderate attitude. According to her it is a pose. “He says he’s going to put everything on hold. Well, not at all!”
Geert Wilders’ party PVV is currently sky-high in the polls and he is very keen to finally join the government, but there is still one major obstacle: Pieter Omtzigt. To appease his political opponents, Wilders has moderated his tone somewhat and put his most radical ideas on hold.
Georgina critical
However, it is not credible, says Georgina Verbaan. “I actually think like Wilders is now saying that he is going to put all his things on hold… He is not going to put it on hold at all,” says the actress in the TV show Toothache.
According to Diederik Ebbinge, the presenter of the program, middle parties are increasingly moving towards the PVV. “The VVD has already said that they are more or less abolishing development aid and that they do not really want many migrants anymore. It’s basically a f*ck you to the rest of the world, right?”
Unkind
Joost Eerdmans, the leader of JA21, has said NU.nl said that ‘refugees must realize that they have no chance’ in our country. Diederik: “When you see him like this… He is mediocrity incarnate! That you even dare to say that: ‘Refugees must know that they don’t stand a chance.’”
Panel member Rutger Castricum: “It’s also a bit stupid, I think. So you also say: people who are in need should think that they have no chance. Yeah, I can’t imagine…”
‘It’s terrible!’
Diederik does not understand Rutger’s outrage. “That’s kind of the position of the right in general, right?”
Panel member Hanneke Groenteman: “He wants that too! That’s exactly what they want!”
Rutger: “Well, I can’t imagine that that is really the case in his head, he just says it very stupidly.”
Diederik cynically: “Oh, fortunately, he doesn’t mean it that way.”
What does Georgina think of these statements by Eerdmans? “Yes, no, I think it’s terrible.”
From CDA
D66 celebrity Alexander Pechtold then notes that Eerdmans comes from the CDA. “This is the fourth party leader to come from the CDA, right? Omtzigt, Van der Plas, him and the real CDA.”
Diederik: “What do you mean by that? That they all turned out so bad?”
Is Frans Timmermans the best alternative? Georgina also has doubts about this: “He doesn’t come across as authentic at all and I think that’s such a shame. If you watch that debate on SBS, he is so annoying.”