Netherlands General Election

[I'm With Stupid]

It's worth mentioning that it's 37 out of 150 seats. The biggest single party, but nowhere near a majority of the country. How many do we think a UKIP-style party would get in the UK if we had proportional representation?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

How on earth do these populists end up being so popular?

 

[Ducado]

I doubt Geert Wilders will get to be the Prime Minister, and I suspect there will be lots of negotiations that will take ages in order to form a working coalition

I used to think the PR system was a good thing and it’s something we need but this case and Israel have proven that it can sometimes give voice to some extremists who would otherwise be at the margins of politics

 

[Ducado]

How on earth do these populists end up being so popular?

By telling people what they want to hear, it’s basic salesmanship

 

[shemnel]

It's worth mentioning that it's 37 out of 150 seats. The biggest single party, but nowhere near a majority of the country. How many do we think a UKIP-style party would get in the UK if we had proportional representation?

if there was still a credible UKIP style party, that wasn't the Conservative Party and wasn't hemorrhaging votes to a right-leaning populist Tory party, i'd say that party would get a very similar proportion in the UK as it has in the Netherlands, about 25%

 

[blueinsa]

How on earth do these populists end up being so popular?

Probably because the unpopular if that’s what we should call the opposite of the populists are well, a bit shit and leave many frustrated and feeling unrepresented and not listened too.

 

[blueinsa]

By telling people what they want to hear, it’s basic salesmanship

If it’s what the people want to hear, shouldn’t government reflect with policy?

That’s why we have democratic elections.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

How on earth do these populists end up being so popular?

They’re the single biggest party so their concerns are many. Too many parties brush over serious issues for fear of being branded things they are not by people who’d never be active themselves.

Controlled immigration from the EU to the UK could’ve prevented Brexit and the last Johnson government. They’d have had far less to frighten people with.

 

[Ducado]

Probably because the unpopular if that’s what we should call the opposite of the populists are well, a bit shit and leave many frustrated and feeling unrepresented and not listened too.

It’s not as simple as that, it’s generally offering simple solutions and nostalgic visions of past greatness

 

[Ducado]

If it’s what the people want to hear, shouldn’t government reflect with policy?

That’s why we have democratic elections.

It worked well in Germany pre war,