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<blockquote data-quote="Antigone" data-source="post: 58909757" data-attributes="member: 146547"><p>Okay, here goes nothing...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Parliament under the Prime Minister. Tony Blair's the former prime minister of the UK. Our PM is Mark Rutte, who runs a minority cabinet with the support of the Freedom Party, which is Wilder's party. The other two parties in the cabinet are the centrist Christian Democrats and the moderate right wing Liberal party. The Freedom Party aren't a member of the government and don't fill any cabinet positions, but they have vowed to support the cabinet in most of its decisions. This means that anything the right-of-center cabinet wants to do to enable immigration is going to be rejected by the Freedom Party (not that they want to enable immigration) and effectively, it's being cut.</p><p></p><p>I think you'll find a multi-party parliament makes it difficult to get anything done as well.</p><p></p><p>Anything the Freedom Party doesn't like (and there's plenty they don't like) requires support of the opposition to pass through parliament and then through the senate, where even with the support of the Freedom Party they're in the minority, so they require either support from one of the left-wing parties or from the rather extremist Reformation Party (Christian fundamentalists), who hold only one or two seats and have enough power to tip the balance one way or the other.</p><p></p><p>So basically to get anything done the cabinet has to please both the (anti-extremism) Freedom Party and the (extremist) Reformation Party OR the Labour Party, who are still mad at being left out of the coalition with practically the same number of seats as the Liberal Party and are politically VERY far away from the current cabinet. </p><p></p><p>And then there's also the Socialist Party, who aren't so much politically relevant as PR-savvy; the Christian Party, who are moderately left-wing but against euthanasia, abortion and gay marriage and thus in almost everything the polar opposite of the Liberal Party; the Green Party, who were drifting to the right, couldn't sell it to their members, lost their leader and are now drifting mostly aimlessly; the Animal Party, who are small but make a lot of noise; and the Democrat Party, whose leader seems to have a personal problem with mr. Wilders (and trust me, this is both justified and enthusiastically reciprocated). With the severe cutbacks this cabinet is making, it's not the most popular, and the opposition is VERY keen to show it isn't part of this and opposes it in every way. Put all of this together and you've got a general picture of the current political landscape in the Netherlands and the amount of bickering it delivers.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, I don't mind this cabinet most of the time, even though they're quite right-wing and I'm not. I loathe Wilders and think he should stop moaning and start contributing, and I want to repeatedly poke the education secretary with a sharp stick, but apart from that I can live with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antigone, post: 58909757, member: 146547"] Okay, here goes nothing... Parliament under the Prime Minister. Tony Blair's the former prime minister of the UK. Our PM is Mark Rutte, who runs a minority cabinet with the support of the Freedom Party, which is Wilder's party. The other two parties in the cabinet are the centrist Christian Democrats and the moderate right wing Liberal party. The Freedom Party aren't a member of the government and don't fill any cabinet positions, but they have vowed to support the cabinet in most of its decisions. This means that anything the right-of-center cabinet wants to do to enable immigration is going to be rejected by the Freedom Party (not that they want to enable immigration) and effectively, it's being cut. I think you'll find a multi-party parliament makes it difficult to get anything done as well. Anything the Freedom Party doesn't like (and there's plenty they don't like) requires support of the opposition to pass through parliament and then through the senate, where even with the support of the Freedom Party they're in the minority, so they require either support from one of the left-wing parties or from the rather extremist Reformation Party (Christian fundamentalists), who hold only one or two seats and have enough power to tip the balance one way or the other. So basically to get anything done the cabinet has to please both the (anti-extremism) Freedom Party and the (extremist) Reformation Party OR the Labour Party, who are still mad at being left out of the coalition with practically the same number of seats as the Liberal Party and are politically VERY far away from the current cabinet. And then there's also the Socialist Party, who aren't so much politically relevant as PR-savvy; the Christian Party, who are moderately left-wing but against euthanasia, abortion and gay marriage and thus in almost everything the polar opposite of the Liberal Party; the Green Party, who were drifting to the right, couldn't sell it to their members, lost their leader and are now drifting mostly aimlessly; the Animal Party, who are small but make a lot of noise; and the Democrat Party, whose leader seems to have a personal problem with mr. Wilders (and trust me, this is both justified and enthusiastically reciprocated). With the severe cutbacks this cabinet is making, it's not the most popular, and the opposition is VERY keen to show it isn't part of this and opposes it in every way. Put all of this together and you've got a general picture of the current political landscape in the Netherlands and the amount of bickering it delivers. FWIW, I don't mind this cabinet most of the time, even though they're quite right-wing and I'm not. I loathe Wilders and think he should stop moaning and start contributing, and I want to repeatedly poke the education secretary with a sharp stick, but apart from that I can live with it. [/QUOTE]
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