Olcay Gulsen laughed at a politician of the VVD in the talk show Op1 last night. She thinks that Member of Parliament Daniel Koerhuis is exaggerating the extreme crowds at Schiphol.
Schiphol is plagued by extremely long queues and VVD MP Daniel Koerhuis thinks that situation is untenable. He traveled to the airport over the weekend and placed a somewhat dramatic tweet† Heard terrible stories from Dutch people who stand in line for hours and are afraid to miss their vacation, he wrote.
‘Really bad’
Presenter Hugo Logtenberg confronted Daniel about it yesterday in Op1. “A lot of people thought the first part of the sentence was about the war. ‘Terrible stories’.”
Daniel is dead serious: “This is about the people queuing up. I saw a crying family from Leeuwarden with three children, who were afraid to miss their vacation. Well, that really pisses me off when I see that.”
Hugo cynically: “Yes, yes. No, that’s annoying.”
Olcay smiles
Olcay Gulsen then bursts out laughing. Daniel: “Yeah, it’s a bit of a joke.”
She: “No, not at all!”
Daniel: “Of course what is worse are the stories from Ukraine; that is beyond dispute, but in the Netherlands you simply have to be able to arrange this properly.”
Eyebrow
Journalist Kysia Hekster thinks the suffering is being blown up. “I did raise an eyebrow, to be honest. I’ve seen people at the border who want to get out of the country and have waited there for 50 hours, some with children, and turned around because they were sick and had to go to the hospital.”
According to Kysia, Schiphol’s suffering is negligible. “Then I also think: yes, ‘terrible’ that you are standing in line”, she says cynically.
‘Typical VVD’
Daniel: “Yes, but these are people… Of course we have had corona for two years, people have saved up for their holiday, they are standing in line with their children. I have four children of my own and you’ll just stand there, won’t you?”
Olcay: “No, it is of course terrible and I laugh a bit jokingly, but I think it is a typical VVD problem. (…) But I think Lelystad is a solution. Maybe we should go to the solution.”
Fragment
The fragment in question from Op1: