NSC Experienced a Disastrous Week in What was Already a Disastrous Month. Party Leader Eddy Van Hijum Faced Serious Questions Last Week About Dissolving the Party. NSC stands at Approximately Zero Seats in the Polls.
How could it have come this far? Were they too nice at nsc? They Ask Themselves That Question Within the Party. It is an interesting thought. Politicians have power, and I don’t think you need to have sympathy for power in principle. Too nice? You mean too naive.
Only it also Remains Human Work. Especiate The Membership of Parliament is an Attack on your social life for some parties. I Once Heard A Government Official Say That He Shouldn’t Think About Going To The Chamber. “I have young children at home.”
Since then I of Think: What are they doing to themelves?
‘The Hague is a Snake Pit’
That though came back to me when from Hijum Called the Hague “a political snake pit” in an interview with nrc last week. NSC MP Nicolien van Vroonhoven Accused the VVD or “Foul Play” in the Gaza Debate.
NSC OFTEN Felt Fooled in the Old Coalition. For Example, Pieter Omtzigt had A Car Accident Duration the Formation. As a result, he had some back pain and occasionally had to stand and walk around. He told his fellow negotiators that in the closed consultation room.
Duration that same consultation, The NSC Press Department Received Phone calls with Questions about that accident, While Omtzigt had that in confidence. Accordance to him, there Were boxes or examples.
You can also say that nsc has let itelf be fooled. Politics can be tough. Especiate for newcomers who are not used to foul play and do not know how to deal with it. Or don’t want to know that.
‘Politics is very hard’
The BBB was not so long ago also a new party. When I Spoke to Party Leader Caroline van der Plas Early Last Year, She also Called the Hague A Snake Pit. “Politics is very hard,” She Said.
Her ‘Free Beer’ Motion Came Up. Duration a debate, she came up with the proposal to increase the minimum wage, but it did not say by how much or from what it had to be paid.
Van der Plas was Laughed at the Chamber. What disappointed her must, she told me afterwards, was that she had submitted the motion together with omtzigt, then still an mp without a party. Hey sat down and let her dangle. “I would do that again now,” she told me about it.
They notited that at nsc. Just before the Summer, The then Coalition Parties NSC, VVD and BBB Agreed to Get the Asylum Laws Through the Chamber As “Clean as Possible”. That agreement was in Tatters an Hour later, when the bbb (and also the vvd) voted in favor of crimalizing illegality.
‘Who Lies A Lot, Must Remember A Lot’
Suddenly my Thoughts used to a conversation I had with emile roemer in the summer of 2017. He had Been Leader of the sp Since 2010. Was it time to say goodbye?
Absolutely not, his Answer was. Half a year later he announced his departure.
That was Already Playing in His Head When I Asked Roemer That Question. “Very occasionally a white lie is allowed,” he said later. Because a hague law is also: If you openly doubt Whether you want to stay, you are actual already gone.
Despite a white lie, the good-natured Roemer was of seen as a reliable politician. An Honor, he told me. “My Mother Always Said: Son, Who Lies A Lot, Must Remember A Lot.”
But the SP Member was also Sometimes tasks for a ride. That is beautifully depicted in Coen Verbraak’s Documentary between Peaks and Soundings about the 2012 Election Campaign. For a moment Roemer seemed to have a Chance at the Little Tower.
But he was bluffed by VVD Member Mark Rutte Duration a Live Television Debate. The song about raising the excess. It Worked: The SP Dropped Like A Stone in the Polls. The VVD Became the Largest Party and the Rutte II Cabinet (VVD and PvdA) Sat for Five Years.
Was Roemer ‘too nice’ or ‘too child’? Not at all, he replied. “If only there were more nice people in politics.”
Maybe he was right. But the Judgment about Roemer is also that he let him be fooled in that conscious campaign of 2012. And that may have cost him the tower.