I would have liked the subject this year, but Joehoe, there we are again: the elections. I will be honest: I don’t know if I will make it all. First, of course, the idea behind it is not correct: why do politicians only make effort in the run -up to the elections and not just throughout the year, but especially – especially – because of all mandatory numbers.
The cheerful party leaders, the ‘spontaneous’ conversations on the market. The balloons. The pens, the stickers. The stalls with posters. The red and green jackets.
The ‘casual’ interviews on TV at the politicians at home, the surprised children (“Heee Papa never brings us to bed”). The cigarette butts, Henri’s Senseo machine. With the ultimate necks: the worst of the worst test in the world: the election debates. Everyone can already draw them.
Geert Haat Frans, Frans Haat Geert, Dilan hates everyone, and they will all tell that screaming together.
The ‘cubes’ too, with such a cooker. Dilan against Geert, Geert against Henri. Henri receives a question from an angry baker from Barneveld. And everyone sounds like a pre -programmed robot because of the media training or walks with a card in hand and a headset on a very uncomfortable stage.
Geert who is being opposed. ‘But Geert – everyone is being opposed! Every hard -working Dutchman. Have you never worked hard or something! ” The hysterical applause of the party members brought along. The polls.
The funny dilemmas. ‘Tell Henri: Wet socks every day or every day a stone in your shoe (‘ Well, French is all the stone in my shoe, say a good, hahahaha ‘).
The ‘care staff’ and ‘police officers’, who they’ spoken ‘in the country’. That they know how expensive a kilo of chicken fillet is ‘in the supermarket’. The questions of furious citizens that you are looking at with crooked toes. The small parties that are angry that they are not allowed to participate.
And then all analyzes afterwards. Oh man. That Dilan and Esther showed little empathy (always women, pay attention), what color the men wore (‘a red tie – it is clearly out on rule’), how they are folding their hands (‘you see that they have a media trainer’). And then again the coaches, clients, strategists and trainers on LinkedIn with advice ‘how you can use this in your own organization’. Rotten.
I don’t care what the color of a tie is, or they know how expensive a kilo of chicken fillet is, that they looked hard from their eyes or that they have spoken with a police officer! From me they only have to solve the problems in this country. Purchase. That. Election debates. Still. AF!
Like this.
I said it out loud.
Nobody gets better from election debates! Everyone is done with it. People really do not change their voice on the basis of a debate, research shows. Can’t we even try something else?
For example: every party leader receives 1 hour of attention on TV. Why not. The first thirty minutes you can tell what you want with the Netherlands, then half an hour of concrete, feasible, legislative proposals. So no vagueness like ‘we put the teacher again’, no concrete. And in that second half hour you will be sawn through the team of 1 today.
Or, and then I think completely out of the box: test them in crisis situations and at their resolving capacity. Let them participate in All Holland Bakt – “You still have fifteen minutes before the spectacle, there André van Duin comes, and your soufflé has collapsed.” Expedition Robinson With Geert on an island where only he can come. B and B without love.
Or a day in front of the class! Along with a surveillance car in Beverwijk. Testing about stress resistance. Or a team outing where they have to build rafts together – show that you can work together, instead of pissing off with sawn -down one -liners.
Or just an assessment. Hello! The entire BV Nederland has had such a thing with a mailbox, case, role play and interview. Why not the legislators of our country?
And further, and I am already looking forward to that, we do nothing about the elections on TV. Zero. And in the time we have left, we will only let Rail Away to see. Rest. Snowy mountains. Green slopes. Swiss locomotives. We need it.
In nine months there will be elections again.
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