Özcan Akyol gets a slap on the fingers when he slams the new scout Ronald Plasterk at the regular table of Today Inside. “You think everything is absolutely shit.”
PvdA celebrity Ronald Plasterk will work as a scout; he has been asked by Geert Wilders to hold discussions with the party leaders about the formation of a new cabinet. And although he is a member of a left-wing party, Plasterk is not exactly loved by the left. In fact, his Telegraaf columns contain a lot of flirting with the right flank.
Erudite man
If Özcan chose Plasterk last night Today Inside ‘totally poor’ and refers to his ‘right-wing columns in De Telegraaf’, Johan Derksen starts to protest. He calls Plasterk his ‘favorite columnist’. Özcan: “I understand that very well, because it fits in well with your ideas, so it fits Wilders.”
Easy, says Johan. “Isn’t he an erudite man? He is a scientist, he is a man who is not vulgar, who stands above the parties…”
“Everyone sh*t!”
Özcan immediately interrupts him. Above the parties? “No, not that. I looked at his last six columns and Kaag didn’t like it, the PvdA was shit and I don’t know what else. Nothing was good.”
Johan responds very quickly and somewhat irritated: “Well, then he has probably read too many of yours, because if one person thinks everyone is shit, it’s you.”
Özcan: “No, but that’s right. That’s why I’m not asked to be a scout.”
Arranged immediately
Wilfred Genee calms things down and cheerfully remarks: “But he does!”
Özcan: “I would have arranged it immediately! I think new elections.”
According to Özcan, the PVV is ‘an immature, undemocratic and untenable party in a coalition partnership’, he writes in his AD column. “The other parties will talk to the PVV out of politeness and for the sake of image, but anyone with a bit of common sense knows that this ritual dance will lead to nothing.”
New elections
Here and there, including last night at Beau van Erven Dorens’ talk show table, there are whispers about new elections. That would be disastrous for the VVD, because the voter now knows that they no longer want to take responsibility in a new government for the time being, so that is a lost vote according to disappointed voters.
Özcan: “If all these themes are treated so blankly by the established order again, the question is which protest party will win next time.”