Dutch Freedom Party wins general election. *Read OP before posting*

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405037#Comment_121405037

Many seem to think that the actions of the CC negate the failures of modernist ideologies. They don't, and never will, as the people will judge the world as it is now, and not constantly compare ourselves to the past.

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405146#Comment_121405146

But it's being presented that the homogenous Ireland of being 95% Roman Catholic and 99% Irish was some sort of utopia. It was nothing of the sort - large numbers of people couldn't wait to emigrate (and many of these emigrants wrote of how stifling and repressive they had found Irish society).

Those who are harking back to those times with fondness are conjuring up a bogus Ireland that never actually existed.

brickster69

Lots of changes going on lads.

https://danielfreund.eu/european-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-treaty-change/?lang=en

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405522#Comment_121405522

Is there a point you wish to make?

brickster69

It just passed like

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1727342843092717829

m2_browning

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405597#Comment_121405597

Good

because the only thing worse than being overrun by gangs of people (who do not share our European culture and liberalism) influenced by a 7th century religion that is diagonally opposite to all our values

are gangs of Russian criminal barbarians looting and raping and pillaging like they have been doing across the far east of Europe, gangs whose dear leader directly weaponised the practice of pushing migrants from the first category

Holy crap, their policies are hilarious, like REALLY HILARIOUS stuff

• A complete end to all asylum for refugees
• Criminals to be stripped of Dutch nationality and deported
• An end to free movement of labour in the EU, with working visas introduced for some
• A ban on all Islamic schools, korans and mosques, and on headscarves in government buildings
• A ban on dual nationality
• Lower taxes on just about everything
• 10,000 more police, “zero tolerance for street scum”
• Preventive detention for people suspected of supporting terrorism
• 14 year olds to be treated as adults by criminal courts
• Abolish the Senate
• Withdraw previous apologies for slavery. Stop providing government literature in Arabic and Turkish.
• Stop all art and culture subsidies.
• End “left wing hate of our historical heroes”.
• Completely stop funding public broadcaster NPO
• A strong reduction in the number of foreign students
• Bring back Zwarte Piet
• End military support for Ukraine.
• Kick Turkey out of NATO.
• Cut fuel taxes
• Raise motorway speed limits to 140km/h
• A complete end to all foreign aid
• A Nexit referendum, and until then cut EU funding

In terms of railing against environmental policies, these are the funniest I've read in a long time

• An end to nitrogen reduction laws
• keep coal and gas power stations open
• more North Sea gas extraction
• more nuclear power.
• Stop trying to cut CO2
• withdraw from climate accords
• No wind turbines
• no solar panels

“In this way we can rebuild the Netherlands and put the Dutch back at number one!”

hahahaha

https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1727608887916818612

Astartes

Hahahahahaha indeed.

ancapailldorcha

Some of that insane and some parts are proper basement-dwelling incel Nazi stuff. Withdrawing an apology for slavery is just emblematic of the toxic mindset at play.

Glencarraig

Wilders just looks like another one of Donald "The Chump" Trump's hillbilly supporters........complete with the Chump's wig. Can you imagine having him, The Chump and Marjorie Taylor Green in some kind of coalition....Jesus help the world !!!!

ancapailldorcha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405971#Comment_121405971

Apparently, the hair is an attempt to hide Widlers' part-Indonesian heritage.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405873#Comment_121405873

Never thought a Dutch nationalist would be against windmills 🤣

scottser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405522#Comment_121405522

Interesting - a good way to get around the upstarts like Erdogan and Orban and that new Fico gobsheen.

end of the road

another crank who will bankrupt his country within a year or less.

same old same old with the far right of course.

Steviemak7

Talk of Nexit is ridiculous

cgcsb

We will definitely see nutters like this rise in Ireland, we're just a few months or years behind mainland Europe. The scenes in Dublin this evening and what happened to that 5 year old girl will see a surge in the far right, and the centerist government is 100% to blame, they didn't listen to what the people were saying.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121407723#Comment_121407723

which people were those and what were they saying?

Jack Daw

If the EU was actually more Pro Europe more people would support it .However these days the EU and alot of pro EU politicians really seem to despise Europe and european people who want to protect their own culture.

And then people wonder why there might be a push against the EU by large numbers of people within the continent.

Jack Daw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058323850/dutch-freedom-party-wins-general-election

Mad idea I know but when people vote they tend to vote for parties that represent what they want in their own country not what prospective immigrants want from a possible future destination.

Odhinn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121407858#Comment_121407858

"protect their own culture" my arse. Xenophobic knuckle dragging is what it is.

cgcsb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121407740#Comment_121407740

The communities that have been protesting against the enforcement of migrant camps on their communities.

Jack Daw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121408956#Comment_121408956

Nah not really.Sure some may be xenophobic knuckle draggers, but there are quite a lot of people who'd prefer not to have excessive numbers of people imported into europe , particularly when Europe can't even look after its own citizens in the first place.

StudentDad

You'd think we lot in Europe would have learned our lesson (Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin) etc etc., things are a bit crap for some of us in Europe so right wing headbangers turn up the fear and off we go again. Hatred and tribalism got us two world wars and Europe in ruins. I do hope we're not off to those awful shores again.

Jack Daw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121409610#Comment_121409610

Then maybe the reasonable concerns of people should be listened to by more mainstream parties and people wouldn't have to vote for fringe parties with extremist elements.

I'd much rather vote for either FF or FG in general election but because both those parties have steadfastly refused to act on the housing crisis in Ireland I may be forced to vote for SF purely because they can't be any worse than those 2 and as a kick up the backside for them even though I really don't like SF.

StudentDad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121409663#Comment_121409663

As I said, tribalistic and based in fear. If you're afraid of fire, you don't support the local arsonist.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121407723#Comment_121407723

The scenes in Dublin this evening...will see a surge in the far right

How so? Do you think a lot of people will be looking to express their support for this evening's 'protestors' via the ballot box?

applehunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121409610#Comment_121409610

Nationalism was a natural reaction against international communism that was on the rise in WW2.

Similar forces are behind push for multiculturalism in Europe today.

nolivesmatter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121409610#Comment_121409610

"things are a bit crap for some of us in Europe"

How so? Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

Snooker Loopy

A vote for Geert Wilders was a vote for the sort of scenes we saw in Dublin this evening.

These sort of scenes are totally indivisible from what the far right is. These scenes are their raison d'etre.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121405873#Comment_121405873

Yep

A lot of those policies you see spouted here on boards day in day out.

There is an actual thread ongoing this very minute advocating for many similar to his law and order ones to be implemented in Ireland