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24-09-2013, 11:15 PM
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/09/polls_put_wilders_pvv_out_on_t.php
Polls put Wilders' PVV out on top, Labour slumps to record low
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Geert Wilders and the then-UKIP Leader Lord Pearson at a time when the British Government attempted to bar Wilders from the UK
Support for the pro-controlled immigration PVV continues to grow in the latest Maurice de Hond opinion poll, which puts Geert Wilders’ party on 32 seats – or around 21% of the vote.
This is up one seat on a week ago and more than double the party’s general election total. De Hond puts the Socialist party in second place, with 24 seats or 16% of the vote.
At the same time, backing for the ruling coalition continues to shrink. If there were a general election now, the right-wing liberal VVD would take just 12.6% of the vote – or 19 seats in the 150-seat parliament - while the Labour party (PvdA) is at a record low of 11 seats, the De Hond poll says.
Criticism
The Liberal democratic party D66 is also on the up and would also win 19 seats if there were a general election tomorrow.
Although De Hond's polling methods have been criticised for over-emphasising the success of more extreme parties, other polls also put the PVV out in front.
A Synovate poll last week put the PVV in joint first place with the VVD on 28 seats, with D66 in third place on 20 seats and Labour with 19.
And poll comparison website allepeiling.com,which looks at six opinion polls also puts Wilders' party in the lead.
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Excellent news, everywhere you look across Europe it appears people are waking up. In Finland the left wing (but anti-EU) Freedom Party of Mr Timo nearly topped the polls, in Britain UKIP are making inroads, in France Marine Le Penn is succeeding in her fight to tame the once-racist Nationalé Front and turn it into a level headed sensible party, and in the Netherlands Geert Wilders is topping the polls with his PVV.
The story of the Netherlands is actually quite interesting in recent years if anybody is interested - if you read up on it, this sort of populism first came about in the 1990s when the man before Wilders (somebody called Pim Fortuyn) warned against ghettoisation from mass immigration - especially from Islam, in Dutch cities. It was made even more clear his concern from the fact that Fortuyn was openly gay and argued that liberal tolerances such as homosexuality were incompatible with the likes of Islam and other ideologies from abroad.
As it goes, Mr Fortuyn was murdered and the movement passed to Wilders - at first of course they were dismissed at extreme, racist, bigoted - you name it ... that was until they started winning seats and indeed they are now virtually a mainstream party in the Netherlands. Interesting times across the European continent and shows how far Mr Wilders has come.
Thoughts?
Polls put Wilders' PVV out on top, Labour slumps to record low
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/10/16/1255698452632/Geert-Wilders-001.jpg
Geert Wilders and the then-UKIP Leader Lord Pearson at a time when the British Government attempted to bar Wilders from the UK
Support for the pro-controlled immigration PVV continues to grow in the latest Maurice de Hond opinion poll, which puts Geert Wilders’ party on 32 seats – or around 21% of the vote.
This is up one seat on a week ago and more than double the party’s general election total. De Hond puts the Socialist party in second place, with 24 seats or 16% of the vote.
At the same time, backing for the ruling coalition continues to shrink. If there were a general election now, the right-wing liberal VVD would take just 12.6% of the vote – or 19 seats in the 150-seat parliament - while the Labour party (PvdA) is at a record low of 11 seats, the De Hond poll says.
Criticism
The Liberal democratic party D66 is also on the up and would also win 19 seats if there were a general election tomorrow.
Although De Hond's polling methods have been criticised for over-emphasising the success of more extreme parties, other polls also put the PVV out in front.
A Synovate poll last week put the PVV in joint first place with the VVD on 28 seats, with D66 in third place on 20 seats and Labour with 19.
And poll comparison website allepeiling.com,which looks at six opinion polls also puts Wilders' party in the lead.
- See more at: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/09/polls_put_wilders_pvv_out_on_t.php#sthash.2UwcY9j5 .dpuf
Excellent news, everywhere you look across Europe it appears people are waking up. In Finland the left wing (but anti-EU) Freedom Party of Mr Timo nearly topped the polls, in Britain UKIP are making inroads, in France Marine Le Penn is succeeding in her fight to tame the once-racist Nationalé Front and turn it into a level headed sensible party, and in the Netherlands Geert Wilders is topping the polls with his PVV.
The story of the Netherlands is actually quite interesting in recent years if anybody is interested - if you read up on it, this sort of populism first came about in the 1990s when the man before Wilders (somebody called Pim Fortuyn) warned against ghettoisation from mass immigration - especially from Islam, in Dutch cities. It was made even more clear his concern from the fact that Fortuyn was openly gay and argued that liberal tolerances such as homosexuality were incompatible with the likes of Islam and other ideologies from abroad.
As it goes, Mr Fortuyn was murdered and the movement passed to Wilders - at first of course they were dismissed at extreme, racist, bigoted - you name it ... that was until they started winning seats and indeed they are now virtually a mainstream party in the Netherlands. Interesting times across the European continent and shows how far Mr Wilders has come.
Thoughts?