VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by johnchristopher on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:19AM (#10581535)

I don't understand how living in Belgium I missed that (nitpick: s/president/prime-minister).

But then again these are just polls. And then there needs to be a majority coalition.

But it's a far cry from the Netherlands I knew in the 90's.

Back on the topic: there are some really disturbing messages on social networks and in politician mouths regarding the refugees (who are called migrants here).

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by jacquesm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:56AM (#10581863)

Thanks for the correction, comment updated, the Dutch term is 'minister president'.

And yes, the coalition is pretty much our hope right now, but Wilders is ex VVD and SP might even join (they have a lot of similar things in their programs even though they're on opposite points of the political spectrum in nl, how that happened is another story). A 'cordon sanitaire' has been discussed but it is also already being broken.

The Netherlands that you knew in the 90's is dead, 25 years of divisive politics have seen to that.

Yes, it is absolutely deplorable how our 'chosen leaders' are positioning themselves and how they use the Paris attacks as a fig leaf cover to do things they nominally would have nothing to do with, except now that it is politically expedient.

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