In Haren they received a letter from the town hall that the Friday commodity market will be shortened by an hour. Entrepreneurs sad, because they knew nothing. And they thought it was a pity, because that commodity market does bring a little extra commotion.
To surprised questions from City Party/100% Groningen, alderman Molema (on behalf of alderman Bloemhoff) replied that nothing went wrong at all: the shorter market had ticked off with the market vendors who had asked for an hour’s reduction in working hours.
The fact that the entrepreneurs knew nothing could not help Molema, she thought, as it turned out in the council meeting last week. The steps in the decision-making process had been carefully followed, so it was an excellent decision. In fact, Molema simply turned it around: why didn’t the entrepreneurs in Haren actually contact the market, she wondered.
They were not able to cope with so much slipperyness at the City Party. Where was the village alderman Kirsten de Wrede of the Party for the Animals in all this, the Party for the North then wondered. An alderman like that should stand up for his own village, you would say. But she too wrapped herself in Iron Heinige formalities. This text was recorded by Oog TV from the mouth of the Haren village alderman: ,,Formally we don’t have village aldermen but area aldermen. I am open to our residents to talk to them. No specific sounds have reached me yet on this subject. I can therefore not make any substantive statements about this yet.”
What are we actually seeing here? We are watching a city council trying to run the city with their buttocks squeezed together. Formalism instead of schwung, fear instead of enthusiasm, rigidity instead of an open mind. Aldermen who deal with an insignificant village riot in this way do not seem really equipped to run a real city. Watching the store a bit and praying that no crazy things happen, there doesn’t seem to be much more to it.