“But just to be clear …” Even Sam Hagens now sounded somewhat worried. “You don’t call on to continue with this, don’t you?” “That was not the question,” said Gijs Tuinman; A phrase that continued to repeat the outgoing BBB State Secretary of Defense on Monday evening.
During the weekend, a group of people in Ter Apel decided to hold vehicles to see if there were asylum seekers in it. They called their illegal, intimidating action ‘border controls’. That self -chosen term was apparently catchy enough to be taken over in almost all reporting – sometimes with quotation marks, sometimes without. In Good evening Netherlands (WNL), where a bar regularly appears in the screen with the themes that will be discussed that episode, the quotation marks were missing.
The question that Hagens had asked gardener was: “What do you think of this promotion?” Yes, oh well, it was not his portfolio, and moreover, Mr. Gardener himself had not been there. He knew a lot what exactly happened. But what he could imagine was “if you live near Ter Apel, you know best which vans are that people happen to with.” “So you actually understand it,” said Hagens. “I understand it,” Tuinman agreed. “Whether it is useful to do … that is another question.” And not one that gardener wanted to answer, it turned out. Instead, he placed a question mark behind Hagens’ statement and continued to answer the whole item that same imaginary question: did he understand it? Yes, he understood. The citizens were worried, huh. Because of asylum. Always because of asylum.
In the cheerful right studio, the inconvenience now grew, while the atmosphere had just been quite comfortable. The latest developments in The Hague were generated. Dilan no longer wanted to be in the sea with Geert – that was something for me! “What were the flavors and the difficulties in this?”, Presenter Welmoed Sijtsma had asked political reporter Tessa van Viegen about Yesilgöz ‘assessment. “The difficult thing is of course that the VVD wants to promise its voters a right-wing policy in the field of asylum. And it is very difficult for you to live up to left-wing parties, we have seen that in recent years,” had answered Vliegen, looking back on the years of non-left cabinets.
By the way: the last cabinet was not really right either, Sidekick Jort Kelder thought. “The PVV is actually the SP in the field of economy. Only culturally are they very conservative.” He turned to gardener. “The BBB is … quite right, right?” “Socially conservative”, improved gardener, who also wanted to say that he was busy every day “making decisions and taking responsibility.”
How liberating it must be to live in a world where words mean nothing. On the left is the right and right is left; Saying that you take responsibility equals taking responsibility. Asylum will keep everyone busy as long as we keep saying that asylum is busy. That way worlds will open for you: you can make a career at different broadcasters or even end up in the room, and once you are in the room you might have time left to make a fun program for unheard of the Netherlands. Member of Parliament Dion Graus (PVV), for example, is still knighting someone to animal knight every Monday in Veterinary. Great, right?
On Monday evening I had the hope that the WNL presenters from their freedom rush up. I thought I saw something of a shock in their eyes when they realized that the gardener had developed a look at reality. Then Hagens said, “Okay, we’ll leave it here.” “Hey,” Sijtsma sighed relieved. And they dreamed further.