Tag: Netherlands

  • Wilders Wilts in the Netherlands

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    Brendan Barry
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    It’s a tulip joke, get it? Because the Netherlands. The point of today’s piece is that Geert Wilders, the anti-EU, anti-Muslim, populist leader of the Dutch Freedom Party did not upset Prime Minister Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), a centre-right party. Wilders had threatened to upset the status quo in the Netherlands…