The Weekly Forum - 23 May
26 mei 2025 | Forum for Democracy Intl
Why is FVD never invited onto talk shows or interviews by the mainstream media ? This omertà is undoubtedly a handicap since, however discredited, the MSM remains a powerful force. Thierry Baudet was asked about this recently on a dissident media, Ongehoord Nederland (Netherlands Unheard). He explained that the explanation was psychological and anthropological. People want to be part of a group and groups are constituted by taboos. Taboos precisely cannot be talked about (they would not be taboo if they were) and so the MSM has to invent dishonest excuses in order to avoid discussing the fundamental issues. Among these, Covid, climate policy and the Ukraine are undoubtedly the real reason why FVD is ‘untouchable’. They are all such fundamental issues that it is essential to break through the MSM firewall and finally break the taboos.
Watch clips from Thierry’s ON! Interview here, here and here (translated by AI)
Maybe these decisions are taken in secret. A recent book by the liberal outfit, Follow the Money, alleges that the Dutch elite meets secretly to discuss matters of public policy. These meetings include ministers, civil servants, bankers and industrialists. Gideon van Meijeren MP suggested that the Second Chamber (Lower House) of the Dutch parliament debate the matter. Is policy being made behind closed doors? Is there a deep state? You would have thought that Members of Parliament would be interested. After all, many of them – and Follow the Money itself – are happy to accuse FVD of being part of a conspiracy, in this case involving Russia, a country which, as everyone knows, is the subject of endless conspiracy theories. But guess what? One after another, the party representatives came to the bar of the Chamber to declare ‘no support’ for a debate. Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing.
Watch Gideon’s request for a debate here – and the answers! (Translated by AI)
The signs of deals behind closed doors are surely there. The governing PVV Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, used to be in favour of leaving the European Union. Now it says Nexit is no longer on the agenda. FVD MP Pepijn van Houwelingen tried to pin down a PVV MP about this. He asked her five times whether or not PVV, as a party, was still in favour of Nexit. Would it campaign for Nexit if there were a referendum? Five times she refused to answer. Does this mean that PVV has indeed given an assurance to the other parties that it will no longer support Nexit? Was this a condition for the creation of the coalition, as it was for the Freedom Party in Austria in 2017? Will we ever know?
FVD members attended the Remigration Summit in Milan last weekend and former MP Frederik Jansen spoke at it. We discussed the Summit with him and Afonso Gonçalves from Reconquista in Portugal on The Forum this week. If you missed it, listen back.