Demagogue

June 9 we gonna vote for a new Parliament. Indirectly we vote for a new cabinet.
It's not sure that the biggest party will play the main role in politics.
Maybe 3 or 4 parties can form a coalition which the biggest party can't.

This happened in Almere a city close to Amsterdam on the on the other side of the lake. 20% Of the people there chose for the Party of Wilders (PVV). But the parties didn't agree with the demands of the PVV. Demands like a headscarf ban, a ban on Islamic mosques, thugs in the streets to make it safer in Almere, and so forth.
The extreme ideas makes the other parties to find other coalition forms.


I agree with the chairman of Dutch entrepreneurs that the party of Wilders (possibly) damages the name Holland has abroad.
I don't know what foreigners think of Holland, as a trade nation we are wanted. We are a large exporter in Europe, $ 45.5 billion is our net income (export-import). Germany earns more but has a bigger economy.
So we are an export driven country. We need good relations abroad. This is not the way to keep it that way.
Wilders likes Israel. But I think he didn't watch Paradise now of Hany abu-Assad a movie about the bad situation of the Palestinians in Nablus.

It's a shame that so many people will vote Wilders because it shows that the other parties don't offer solutions to the problems.
The funny thing is that people vote for Wilders because of the demands he has about safety, foreigners, unemployment, taxes, Governmental spending, and so forth but they don't have any problems with those arguments.

The rhetoric ability of Wilders make us afraid for the future, makes people afraid for people who believe in a God called Allah. Wilders has the ability to pinpoint the political debate on a single item, Islam fascism. All this makes Wilders a demagogue.

Hopefully on June 9 2010 we are keen enough to stop the false prophet polluting our minds. Of course it can be stopped by make our mind work and critize W, the demagogue.

transition

On Friday February 19 the Dutch cabinet fell about an argument over the Dutch presence in Afghanistan. The Dutch approach will be no longer effective from August 2010. The 3 parties in the cabinet agreed upon it. Maybe other countries will have the knowledge to do our task.

The cabinet of ministers was formed in 2006 and it decided that troops in Afghanistan would pulled out of A. at December 2010 at the latest. In those days the parties had a majority in the House of Parliament. But now their support is less.

Half February the question rose what to do with the Dutch presence in A. There was an agreement between the parties, but their attitudes changed over the years in between. Labour wanted to go, the Christians wanted to stay and the confessional party didn't have an opinion.
Party leader and vice Minister-President of the Labour party Wouter Bos kept his back straight to keep the other parties to their agreement. In a previous election he was blamed he was a leader with ants in his pants, someone who can't be trusted, a liar.

At the regional election on March 3 the governing parties lost a lot of support.

Maybe that is the reason why Bos stand by the agreement between the parties.

Bos could go so far maybe because he knew that he had a successor namely the major of Amsterdam. Job Cohen could do a fine job for this country. He has the ability to keep people together.

The National elections on June 9 will give an answer on the difficulties politics finds itself.

workload

The works council is doing it's work and I'm doing my work in it. Can't say is a piece of cake. It's a kind of counseling employees what they think of the management plans. It differs. The workload is mostly too high. The consequence is that the illness rate increased and possibly that made some people decide to go for another job.
In the councils advice to the director shouldn't that be neglected. That's our point we should make. Make less stress with more people. Kill the workload by making more fun.

I think the plan can continue keeping an eye on workload, stress, illnesses, and so forth.