Johan Derksen is incredibly happy with the fall of the Rutte IV cabinet. He thinks that Geert Wilders’ party should now be given the space to co-govern. “Stop canceling.”
He had been preparing for the fall of the cabinet for some time: Johan Derksen. Right now it’s that time, he’s on summer break. For the occasion, he gave a live telephone monologue in VI substitute last night The Orange Summer. “I just walked away from the polonaise. I am happy with it and I hope that Rutte’s embarrassing ego tip is now over.”
Years of chaos
It’s time to clear the rubble, says Johan. “Rutte has of course realized the chaos, the total chaos in the Netherlands in all those years. Groningen, Limburg, the benefits affair, asylum problems, nitrogen, poverty, food banks that are busy. He created it all himself, didn’t he?”
He’s done. “I am very happy with that lady from the ChristenUnie, who thinks biblical texts weigh more heavily than the situation in the Netherlands. She actually forced it. So Rutte now just wants to take office again and that seems impossible to me now. I think this is the time for him to take a good look in the mirror.”
No BBB vote
Who should lead the VVD during the elections? “Then he should not put Miss Hermans forward, but the entire VVD must now appeal to Klaas Dijkhoff. The country needs a man like Klaas Dijkhoff.”
Johan voted for the BBB of Caroline van der Plas in the previous elections. “As a kind of protest vote, but I wouldn’t vote for the BBB if it resulted in the prime minister. She just bluffs on TV that she has good candidates for that, but they are complete strangers. That is a leap in the dark.”
‘Time for Wilders’
The million viewers of Today Inside will therefore not receive a voting advice for Caroline. “It’s pretty bad to put all those protest votes at the BBB now, because then you don’t know who will take office.”
And if Pieter Omtzigt joins? “Yes, but Pieter Omtzigt alone cannot keep the whole of the Netherlands afloat. I think it is very dangerous to give a new party so much power.”
Maybe it’s time for Geert Wilders, says Johan. “I would never vote for Geert Wilders’s party, but I do think that he represents a very large part of the Dutch voters.”
‘Don’t cancel again!’
Johan thinks that Wilders should be allowed to participate again. “Those voters have always been canceled year after year, because the left-wing parties are very strong at canceling people with dissenting opinions, but a whole group of Dutch people who vote faithfully for Wilders are shoved into the corner after every election as old dirt, from : you are not participating.”
“I hope that if Wilders is open to it and comes up with sensible proposals, this will be considered. You can disagree, but I do not agree with D66 and GroenLinks and I am not in favor of those people being canceled and no longer allowed to play a role. I don’t think Wilders is more difficult than a party like ChristenUnie.”
‘has a point’
Özcan Akyol, regular guest in De Oranjezomer, is less enthusiastic. “He does have a point somewhere, but on the other hand: Wilders wants all kinds of things that are illegal and not possible. You cannot say: we are now closing all borders and no one can enter them anymore. That’s just not possible. You can’t do business with the PVV.”
He continues: “Then Wilders has to add water to the wine and he is not going to do that. So you can say that those people are ignored, but that is also because of their leader who does not want to rule in a good way with others.”
Dolls
VVD prominent Ruben Brekelmans is angry that Caroline has ruled out sitting in a cabinet with Rutte as prime minister. He says on the talk show Renze: “If the parties then also start saying: ‘Yes, we don’t want to go ahead with that puppet and not with that…’”
Table guest Gerard Joling: “But the VVD has never done anything else, has it? He has also always said: ‘We do not want to govern with the PVV and with that and with that.’”
Ruben: “The PVV because of the content.”
What does Wilders say?
Geert Wilders has responded to NOS. He says: “The time for excluding each other is over. The Netherlands has very big problems. We’ll have to deal with that. Asylum and immigration is perhaps the biggest problem of all. Look what is happening in the Netherlands.”
“We will have to get over all our egos and what happened in the past. We will have to tackle the problems, preferably together with the PVV. We are ready.”