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Sorry to disappoint. The Dutch just love their acronyms and abbreviations: GL = Groen Links = Green Left PvdA = Partij van de Arbeid = Labour Party D66 = Democrats 66 - the 66 is just the year in which they were founded...

The significant difference is that their nutjob has now taken over (or will have as soon as he's inaugurated), and can start implementing his nutjob policies with abandon. Our nutjob must now enter into months of delicate coalition negotiations that may never succeed, and even if they do they...

We could descend into Dutch vis puns. That would quickly have other fish pun threads paling into insignificance

Remember that this is also a country where, around this time of year, the streets fill with people in blackface handing out sweets to children, and (while the debate is at least now raging, which it wasn't until a few years ago), a very significant portion of the population will still swear...

Not out of the question. George Weah got to be president of Liberia...

A lot of people here would vociferously agree with you on that, but at the same time they will spew anti-Islamic nonsense without thinking about it, they believe innocently, and not see the connection...

The concept that the Netherlands is 'liberal' has always been bullshit. It might be true of Amsterdam and some of the other bigger cities (which incidentally, voted overwhelmingly for GL/PvdA, the Green-Socialist alliance), but like in the UK, the majority of people who live in the smaller towns...

Out of interest, did you (or any of the other NL-based NSC'ers for that matter) get a vote yesterday, or am I the only one with Dutch nationality?

I think FvD are a spent fringe force. A lot of people who voted for them in the past did so as a protest vote, and aren't as extreme as Baudet thinks they are. They have all switched to "still pointy-headed but slightly less extreme" alternatives like BBB and PVV.

Even if NSC change their minds, I think he'll still struggle to get a majority without VVD backing. There's a nice little swingometer tool here where you can plug in your own parties and see how they can (or cannot) form a government: https://app.nos.nl/nieuws/tk2023/ Without VVD (and assuming...

Indeed. And just in the interests of accuracy, Wilders is currently predicted to win 37 seats in a 150-seat house, which is 25% not 35%. So "only" one in four voters picked him. Still shocking enough given the bile he spouts, but he's been knocking around there or thereabouts for two decades, so...