The Weekly Forum - 6 June 2026

How can it be that once proud countries now hate themselves and seem to be committing suicide? How is it that European leaders do not represent their countries’ interests and those of their people? FVD MP Milan Schenk asked these questions very firmly in the Chamber this week. The surest proof of this is the housing programme: building twice the number of houses than are needed for Dutch people, solely therefore for immigration and, ultimately, population replacement. 1.3 million migrants have come to live in the Netherlands in the last 15 years. How can a geographically relatively small country sustain such inflows? It can’t. Dutch people are squeezed out of the housing market, they cannot therefore start a family, the birth rate collapses, and the government tries to make up the shortfall by importing Africans and people from the Middle East or further afield. It is a death spiral.

Watch Milan Schenk’s speech here

‘I stand here for the security services,’ said the Dutch Prime Minsiter, Rob Jetten, in a recent debate. He was responding to an MP who said the PM stood for the whole Chamber and for his voters. Jetten’s reply revealed a lot about the current trend towards government by the secret services, which is the truth behind all politics in all European countries. The debate was about what FVD’s parliamentary leader, Lidewij de Vos, had said about violent demonstrations against immigrants. She condemned them unequivocally - but the Prime Minister claimed that she somehow caused or tacitly encouraged that same violence. In other words, he lied. Is this how the security services, who also claim to be fighting disinformation, seek to govern our countries? When pressed, the PM said that even a hint at population replacement would encourage people to be violent, and that such remarks were therefore also condemned by the same security services. So you cannot say something because someone else might use that idea to commit a crime? This is a deranged concept of liability and must be firmly rejected in the name of justice and truth.

Watch the exchange in Parliament here

Shortly after the debate in Parliament when she was mercilessly attacked, Lidewij de Vos addressed the Remigration summit held in Oporto, Portugal. Her speech was received with great emotion. She talked about the terrible effects of the asylum seeker racket on the lives of ordinary people in the Netherlands and, by implication, all over Europe. She inadvertently anticipated the Prime Minister’s later dishonest response when she explained that the government’s reaction to recent protests against asylum seekers had been to condemn the protesters rather than solve the problem they were protesting against. In other words: shoot the messenger.

See the trailer for her speech here

Our guest on The Forum this week was Dr Alexey Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia and Europe’ is a centuries-old question and John Laughland discussed it with him in the city which embodies that relationship, St Petersburg.

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