1. Go and see the situation for yourself. If necessary, bring Queen Máxima with you.
2. Thank Doctors Without Borders, let them know that you can arrange care and medicines yourself.
3. To accommodate all people who sleep outside in Apeldoorn, among others.
4. Ensure that women and children have their own safe shelter.
5. Announce mobile showers. Promise extra beds. Big tents.
6. Hope it stays dry.
7. Find additional cleaning services to clean the toilets.
8. Ask the Lowlands director how to set up a properly functioning medium-sized municipality within a week.
9. Ignore criticism of policy. Get on TV as little as possible.
10. Hope that Gert-Jan Segers will say something like that the situation in Ter Apel affects him very deeply ‘as a person’, and that this is not what you can expect from a beautiful, rich country like ours, but that at the same time it is not. the time is to measure each other, but a time should be when we stand next to each other.
11. Big cities are forcing to take in more refugees.
12. Maybe get rid of the ridiculous fact that everyone has to go to Ter Apel first?
13. Residents of Ter Apel speak. Saying things should have been different and will be different from now on.
14. Hope it blows over.
15. If it doesn’t blow over: label the situation in Ter Apel as a National Crisis in a live TV speech and underline that it is our collective duty to help people who need help.
16. Trying to explain to voters that we are bound by international treaties and cannot keep all refugees out even though you may have promised to do so. Forcing smaller municipalities to take responsibility.
17. Hope the voters don’t react very angry.
18. Check on Twitter to see if there is some support.
19. Finding out that there is really very little support on Twitter.
20. Doubting 1 to 19. Reconsider. Especially because in the evening at On 1 someone from a village on behalf of some industry association also says that there is simply no support.
21. To be the longest-serving prime minister ever. Also enjoy.
22. Hope it won’t be a super harsh winter.
23. Hope there will be no new corona outbreak. Or is it right?
24. Waiting for Gert-Jan Segers to let us know one more time that it is a bitter situation, and that he looks at it with sorrow. But that at the same time responsibility must be taken and that compassion and humanity must be leading in this. Or something.
25. In the meantime, super hope that no more (very small) children die.
26. Hope that D66 will not suddenly start walking on principle.
27. Caroline van der Plas rejoined On 1 sitting next to that bus driver-esque political journalist who sits there almost every day.
28. Congratulating Max Verstappen on twitter on his win. To say that the whole of the Netherlands is proud of him.
29. Would be nice if somewhere in the coming weeks we could also talk about the abuses at Talpa.
30. Make a list of people who, in addition to Johan Derksen and Marcel van Roosmalen, say ‘Zjon de Mol’ even more.
31. Emphasize that PSV also had no business in the Champions League with this game.
32. Still seeing more and more angry people walking in Nuremberg-style gatherings with upside-down flags.
33. Would you like shelter in the Ter Apel region again?
34. Correlation between middle-aged men wearing short jeans (cut-off or not) and having inverted flags examined?
35. Hope that the foreign press doesn’t find out massively how bad we are doing things here.
36. Trying to postpone inserted debate in response to new abuses identified by the foreign press.
37. Ask Sophie Hermans whether she wants to take criticism of the refugee approach very personally in the debate.
38. Hope the opposition doesn’t freak out again.
39. Waiting for Gert-Jan Segers to say that he has let the situation sink in deeply in recent weeks, precisely because it is essentially about everything that the ChristenUnie and he stand for as a person and as a father, and that it is that essential question that prompts reflection.
40. Get through the debate by proposing to appoint a Remkes-like gentleman (or perhaps a lady) to smooth things out.
41. Hoping that it will finally rain and the other crises have blown over in the meantime.