The Weekly Forum - 27 March 2026
30 maart 2026 | Forum for Democracy Intl
Sometimes things are really simple but people like to make them appear complicated. If the population of a country increases through mass immigration from 15 to 18 million in a quarter of a century, without a concomitant increase in the housing stock, property prices will rise. Tom Russcher MP made this essential point in a recent debate in the Dutch Parliament. But rather than understanding the simple relation of cause and effect, and even less trying to find a way of correcting the problem, MPs from other parties tried to frame Tom morally by pretending not to know what basic demographic and citizenship terms mean. ‘What do you mean by the native population?’ is a question clearly designed to insinuate some form of racism, just like ‘What do you mean by “birthrate below the replacement level”?’ When someone speaks the truth, unfortunately many try to pretend that the reality is different simply by ignoring it. This is very bad, in view of the fact that the population is set to continue rising through immigration, while immigrants will continue to be put at the top of the social housing list - ahead of Dutch people. This is not a good way of governing a country but it is precisely how European countries have been run for decades.
Watch Tom Russcher’s speech here
With immigration at such industrial levels, Islam is increasingly penetrating public life in Europe. Sometimes Muslims hold public events deliberately to make their presence felt, such as when they organise prayer meetings in the street. On other occasions, they insinuate their way into public institutions. Iftars have recently been held in or near Dutch police stations, for instance. What does this signify? Do Christians hold Masses in police stations? Do they hold Corpus Christi or Holy Week processions in or near police stations? And if it is only Muslims, what does this say about the religious affiliation of police officers and about the requirement for the police to observe neutrality? Peter van Duijvenvoorde raised all these issues in writing to the Dutch government: one suspects one knows the answers but only FVD asks the questions.
Read Peter van Duijvenvoorde’s questions here
Representatives from JFVD, the party’s youth wing, attended a Women’s Conference organised in Germany recently by the Europe of Sovereign Nations group. The director, Iem al Biyati, was one of the speakers. She gave an excellent talk on how Marxism has always dreamed of destroying the family and how this has now been achieved by a combination of industrialisation and high taxation. Before the industrial revolution, the family was an economic as well as a social unit; now not only do parents (especially men) work away from home but also their income is confiscated by the state. This is why the state wants to push ever more women into work – to increase the tax take. But this only destroys the family even further, while the solution is to stop wasting colossal sums on pointless wars and migrants. Simple, really.
Ulrike Guérot was our guest on The Forum this week. She is one of Germany’s foremost political scientists, currently facing persecution by the state for questioning official narratives on Covid and the Ukraine. She argued very forcefully that the present repressive environment in Europe is due only partly to state control and instead largely to a self-perpetuating ‘community of guilt’ which, supported by huge money flows, ensures that the system continues to defend itself spontaneously and ruthlessly.