Gerard Joling spoke out in an old-fashioned way about immigrants and border policy in Hélène Hendriks’ talk show. “90 percent are poorly educated and receive benefits!” the singer gushes.
It is no secret why RTL 4 star Gerard Joling has been given a Today Inside quota by his boss Peter van der Vorst. The entertainer receives a mega salary from RTL every month, but if he is canceled, the media company will of course be left with nothing. And Geer has quite strong opinions about asylum seekers.
Spicy statements
Gerard used to write entire columns about the ‘Islamization of our country’. The tenor? “My mother will soon have to cycle to find a church and Islam can walk to the mosque in every city!”, he wrote, among other things.
Peter was not happy about that at all. “He does make strong statements,” he responded. “I think that as an artist you also have some kind of responsibility.” And: “I love Gerard, but he has to think about that.”
Later, the TV boss single-handedly put an end to the TV show Joling and the Foreigners.
‘Wilders is right!’
Apparently Gerard is in a rebellious mood, because he wears the latest one The Orange Winter quite loose on the first Jetten cabinet. What does he think of Henri Bontenbal’s participation in government? “I think he’s a weak egg. His whole mentality. There’s no real power in it. I need one who just knocks over the garbage bins and goes.”
Who does that? “A Geert Wilders like that is also entertainment, but I think: you’re right. Everything just comes into the country and you pay for everything. The taxes and everything goes up, the road tax, and then I think: when you hear what those guys cost what comes in… It’s just full.”
“First and foremost!”
Get rid of those asylum seekers, says Geer. “Your own child, brother, sister, aunt or uncle or worker can’t even get an apartment or house. Then I hear him say: The Netherlands comes first and just go! That doesn’t mean that you can no longer hire people from war zones or something, but we are completely going crazy!”
According to him, the housing shortage is also the fault of the asylum seekers. “It is also something that has happened in recent years, because of all those people who keep coming in, that there is a shortage. We have created it ourselves. Just stop a bunch of those asylum seekers and then we can first take care of our own people, our own children.”
Family from Eritrea
Our own people first, says Gerard. “They have sometimes been on a waiting list for ten, twelve, thirteen years! It cannot be that if you come from a non-war country they say: hey, you are right with your family from Eritrea… Come in with your servant! I think it is shameful if you come from a non-war country!”
He continues: “No one dares to say that, but I don’t care! I have a very sweet interior designer, Roosje, and she has been on the waiting list for 27 years and every time it is like: ‘You are at the top, Mrs. De Jong! Oh, another family has just arrived from Huppeldekut or I don’t know where from!'”
Low educated
Gerard really doesn’t mean it as a joke. “You can laugh about that, but it is of course a very shameful thing! Can I talk for a moment? They are also your family members and perhaps also children of your brother or sister! If you wait a very long time, won’t you become deathly ill?”
“You have 90 percent that are poorly educated, all from Timbuktu and I don’t know where it comes from! They don’t go to work, they get benefits, it costs money and we all pay for it! It really needs to be stopped! You can say anything about Geert Wilders, but he has a point.”
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