Friday, June 11, 2010
More good news from Europe
As the English-speaking countries uncontrollably roar down the chute into the double Hell of Gaia and Allah, with England pulling the train, other parts of the West are rapidly turning around.
Yesterday's election in Holland marks another awakening, another turn toward the light, another desperate yank on the steering wheel by an enraged populace, another mixed metaphor. :)
Rutte will try to form a coalition with Wilders for a solidly Populist government, but commentators seem to think this coalition won't work out. ¶ 11:32 AM
Yesterday's election in Holland marks another awakening, another turn toward the light, another desperate yank on the steering wheel by an enraged populace, another mixed metaphor. :)
An anxious Europe has tilted farther to the right after Dutch election results released yesterday indicated a stronger-than-expected showing for anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders.
His Freedom Party came third with 24 seats, up from nine, in the 150-seat parliament.
Mark Rutte's [VVD Party], promising a severe austerity program to tame a swollen deficit, finished first by the slightest of margins, getting 31 seats, compared to the Labour Party's 30 seats.
The Christian Democratic Party tumbled to fourth place, winning 21 seats, compared to 41 in the 2006 election.
That forced the resignation of party leader and former prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende, whose government fell earlier this year after he failed to get support to keep combat troops in Afghanistan.
Rutte will try to form a coalition with Wilders for a solidly Populist government, but commentators seem to think this coalition won't work out. ¶ 11:32 AM
