Well, that was nice for Ter Apel. For everyone who doesn’t have to sleep outside later. For regional administrators. For King’s Commissioner René Paas, who, according to a story in the Volkskrant, was cheering in his car.
After a few long days in The Hague, he had waved goodbye to the Senate meeting early, watched the livestream towards Groningen and thus celebrated the outcome. As a CvdK you must be able to cheer properly in your car. Hence the driver.
A vote will still follow, but that distribution law will pass, unless the VVD in the Senate still supports the ‘constitutional vandalism’ [sic Rob Jetten] by Dilan Yesilgöz in the House of Representatives. That won’t happen anyway.
How I would like to secretly sit under the negotiating table of the proposed cabinet for a day. Listen to what happens between Dilan and Geert, while Pieter and Caroline secretly make out. It may be called the spreading law, but one bed is now far from spread: Yesilgöz’s.
Wilders is furious that Ter Apel will soon lose his nuisance. The bigger the mess, the stronger the civilian resistance to refugees. He has now seen that Yesilgöz only has apparent authority in her party. She cannot simply let the VVD play its games.
Just at the top and already her days are numbered. If you didn’t like her so much, you would almost feel sorry.
One for the reserve bench
She was not the ideal leader for the VVD anyway. You can’t blame anyone for such a helium vote; It’s not fair, but he doesn’t help. You can never make him captain, Cruijff once said about Vanenburg, a footballer with a voice without dominance.
In any case, Yesilgöz would normally have been one for the reserves bench. When Mark Rutte, eyeing a nice job somewhere at the top of the world, blew up the cabinet over nothing, Edith Schippers’ name immediately started circulating as the new VVD party leader. She held on to a place in the Senate and so Yesilgöz was allowed to try, ambitious as an Olympic athlete.
She put a lot of effort into the campaign. Only to the wrong side. In this way she made Wilders bigger than herself. After that, if he became prime minister, she wanted at most to tolerate him and not join his cabinet. A large part of her voters thought that was downright cowardly.
She dropped Van der Burg hard
Things went completely wrong with the haggling around the dispersal law during the parliamentary debate, in which she defeated her own State Secretary Van der Burg – statue for that man! – dropped very hard. This in turn angered administrators of her own party in the country, among others, who themselves are experiencing the mounting refugee problem. ‘Judasgöz’, called the satirical TV programme Just see you here her promptly.
Yesilgöz’s Kurdish father fled Turkey, after which she came here in 1984. Perhaps his daughter is suffering from post-pubescent resistance to parental authority. Because you might assume some empathy towards later fellow sufferers.
Natural leader Edith Schippers
Now, thanks to the VVD faction in the Senate, she herself came down hard. This faction is led by Edith Schippers, the natural leader, who not only upheld the distribution law, but also put Dilan Yesilgöz in her place. And that number is not number 1.
In football, a coach is replaced after a series of poor results (see AZ). The VVD will hold its catch-up autumn conference next week. That’s striking.