The Weekly Forum - 28 May 2026
01 juni 2026 | Forum for Democracy Intl
Lidewij de Vos was ambushed for more than an hour in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament this week, as one MP after another tried to frame her concerns about immigration as racism. People around the country were genuinely shocked by this level of malicious assault. Journalists, too, seem to do little these days other than moral framing. Such framing is a form of denigration and even aggression, however it may cloak itself in questions. It reduces words to an instrument of power, and discussion to a struggle. It also shows the deep complicity between the political majority and the media class. For example, Lidewij was asked about population replacement (‘omvolking’ in Dutch) with the usual innuendos and implicit accusations. Population replacement is an observable phenomenon but it has been made a taboo by the political-media class, allegedly ‘because of the Second World War,’ as if that event had any relevance whatever to today’s migration problems. But the true goal of the taboo is instead to silence critics and to avoid responsibility for promoting migration in the first place.
Watch Lidewij de Vos’ interview here
The desire to deny reality is very powerful. This is because the reality of mass migration is frightening. Crime statistics show clearly what people instinctively know – that migrants commit proportionately more crimes than locals. The figures are particularly terrifying where violent crime is concerned – Somalis are 20 times more likely to be suspected of rape than Dutch people. Street robberies and serious violence are also areas in which young people from migrant backgrounds are significantly over-represented. Sweden is reducing the age of criminal responsibility to 13 so very young people will now be locked up. But this is to attack the symptom rather than the root cause – because even discussing the root is taboo.
Read FVD’s article on migrants and crime here
One of the reasons why things keep getting worse is that governments are trapped inside their own ideology. In the Netherlands, instead of concentrating on resolving the problems which affect people’s daily lives, the civil service instead writes reports alleging ‘institutional racism’ within government because there is no (Muslim) prayer room in this or that ministry. This is an example of … institutional madness. FVD’s new MP Milan Schenk detailed this in a recent devastating speech in committee – devastating because he correctly identifies the pursuit of ‘purely symbolic politics’, instead of the pursuit of real improvement, as the root cause of the problem.
Watch Milan Schenk’s speech here
Ideology also trumps reality in the key area of climate policy, otherwise known as energy policy, the basis for the whole economy. The Netherlands is pursuing various crazy climate goals, in addition to those imposed by the EU. Now the IMF has said that they are dragging the already sluggish economy down even further. The body specifically identifies grid congestion and the crazy obsession with nitrogen – unique in Europe - as factors hindering investment and therefore growth. The IMF also concludes that the housing shortage is hampering investment, yet we all know that immigration contributes to that shortage. Milan Schenk MP is on the case and has put down questions to the government.
Read Milan Schenk’s questions here
FVD International’s director, John Laughland, was once again a guest on the Australian TV show, The Protagonists, a daily broadcast of The World Today. They discussed the mysterious ‘fog of war’ surrounding the conflict in Iran, the end of the American empire and the true nature of Mr Trump.
Watch John Laughland’s interview here
Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute and the formidable Alex Krainer were our guests on The Forum this week. In the light of the recent rigged primary in Kentucky, can we still call the USA a democracy?