The Weekly Forum - 25 September

Try a simple thought experiment.  Think about how you would like your country to be.  Most people would say they want their country to be prosperous and peaceful but European countries today are the opposite of this.  The solutions are simple but only FVD proposes them.  Stop immigration and encourage remigration.  Leave the EU and take back control.  Stop climate policy.  In a magnificent speech, both in content and delivery, setting out the party programme, FVD’s lead candidate, Lidewij de Vos, explained that it is possible to have a high-income, low tax economy if only one has the courage to take radical steps.  Instead, the Netherlands, like so many countries, is governed by cowards and conformists who hide behind international treaties, experts and ‘independent’ bodies to avoid changing anything.  Hence the tragic drift towards eventual ethnic and economic extinction.  

Watch Lidewij’s speech here

When a young Dutch girl was murdered recently in Amsterdam by an asylum seeker, as she cycled home one evening, the horror and outrage were natural.  Similar sentiments had been expressed in England last year when the son of Rwandan refugees stabbed three seven-year-old girls to death as they came out of their dance class.  In both cases, the reaction of the Left was the same – deploy cognitive dissonance.  Pretend that there is no problem with immigrant crime by saying that the issue is much larger – that it concerns all men.  FVD’s lead candidate Lidewij de Vos recently asked the Socialist politician, Frans Timmermans, whether, given that immigrants are over-represented in the crime statistics, immigration and asylum should be stopped in order to protect Dutch women.  Timmermans insisted that the problem was larger than immigration (which no doubt it is) but admitted that migrants were more likely to commit crime.  He nonetheless denounced as ‘vile’ the accusation that the Netherlands was deliberately letting such people in.  But since immigration into all countries in Europe, Netherlands included, keeps breaking records, such a response is a good example of how to accept the facts without accepting the facts.  It’s called gaslighting.

Watch Lidewij de Vos in action here

FVD International’s Marco van den Boomgaard has been travelling to the ever more numerous conferences being organised by patriots and conservatives around the world, in Madrid and Honduras, just as Thierry Baudet and John Laughland attended similar events in Vienna and Washington DC over the summer.  Sooner or later, as in America, these meetings will achieve a critical mass in Europe too.  Que viva Europa!

Read Marco van den Boomgaard’s article here