Election Year or Fear!

[MadAmster]

Meanwhile, here in Clogland, about a year after the coalition was finally formed following the previous General Election, the coalition has collapsed.

Probably for the best as it has achieved next to nothing thus far. The cause? Well, the right wing PVV (Wilders) pulled the plug. His incompetent Migration and Asylum Minister, Faber, was trying to get a dog's dinner of a Law through Parliament (as explained earlier) without explaining one iota of how, why where, when and what it would cost. Even when asked questions on it in the House, she never gave an answer, merely repeating that it's her policy and the lady's not for turning. The independent government committee that looks at new proposals and gives their verdict on affordability, workability and legality hammered it on all 3 points. Saying what was wrong and why. Opposition parties did the same as did the other 3 coalition parties. Civil Servants also pointed out what was wrong. All of the above provided changes that would make the proposal affordable, workable and legal yet still deliver Wilders' required "strongest asylum Law ever". Faber's response was I'm not changing a single comma. Then 2 weeks ago, Wilders came up with 10 extra migration/asylum proposals that would, if not passed, see the PVV withdraw from the coalition. He has done just that. The new elections will be on October 29th.

As I've said previously, IMO, he put the incompetent Faber in that role, knowing the coalition would last a year max and that he could get in first and cause the collapse. That would mean he had a chance to push migration/asylum further up the "leader board". At the last election it was the public's biggest issue. It has now dropped to 5 or 6. That would damage Wilders share of the vote and mean less seats. All going to plan, it seems but I don't think the public will fall for it again. Wilders is done. Even if he is the largest party again or gets a largish number of seats, I really don't see any other party being willing to have him in a coalition. He can go back to being in opposition, pointing out what's wrong but never supplying workable solutions. Of the other 3 coalition parties, both BBB (currently 7 seats) and NSC (20 seats) have 2 each in the latest polls. it's expected that the "lost" voters will go to VVD (Liberals), CDA (Christian Democrats), PvdA/Groen Links (progressive socialists) and D66 (social democrats). I expect those 4 to form the next coalition.

[Geoff Parkstone]

MA "His incompetent Migration and Asylum Minister, Faber..."

Not the first time on here that I've heard Faber described as incompetent....