Protesters clashed with police in The Hague at the rally demanding tougher migration policies. Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has condemned the unrest, calling the rioters “idiots.”
“If you think you can intimidate us, tough luck. We will never let our beautiful country be taken away by extremist troublemakers,” the party’s leader, Rob Jette, wrote on X.
Oh, the irony.
Dutchie here - the violence wasn’t instigated by the right-wing protesters but by football hooligans who tend to have similar views on migration. I think it is important to make the distinction especially since English language reporting on this is much more alarmist imo.
What the English speaking news will tell you about the trouble we have here with “right wing protesters” would lead you to the same conclusions. Like they’re trying to normalise the opinion of fucking scum
What they won’t usually point out: Steven Yaxley-Lennon leads groups of 90s hooligan “firms” (whose sole reason for existence is football violence) around lLondon trying to pick fights with the police under the guise of a “right wing protest”.
Yaxley-Lennon is better known by his carefully crafted persona “Tommy Robinson”. Even the name is chosen to evoke a certain patriotic feeling in… “Certain generations” (Pensioners, mostly).
Are right-wing football hooligans not right-wing?
They sure are, and they didnt went there as football hooligans. Point is there was an organised effort to instigated violence by a group that is different fromt the group that organised a peaceful protest - even though both groups have similar political views.
Its so stupid how these people everywhere are so shocked by a couple million migrants. They will love to learn that there will be tens of millions of climate refugees that will start coming in the next years/decades.
Wait until next election, when this growing movement elects a even more right wing government. Scary.
Judging by the average altitude above current sea level of the Netherlands, they may BE the climate refugees.
The current worst case prediction is 82cm at the end of the century, which is still survivable. So probably their children https://sealevel.nasa.gov/ipcc-ar6-sea-level-projection-tool?lat=52&lon=+4&data_layer=scenario
Edit because i wrote my comment in the wrong place, but i totally agree with this.
Are all Dutch politicians still on X? Or is that just the right wing lunatics?
Most of them are.
There’s those lefts again being violent. Wait this is about the rightists? Oh nevermind carry on /s since we’re living in Orwellian times
Imitating the trend is f USA and UK. Ignorant people! Humanity is always migrating, it’s in our genes. Cool down, relax and take a deep breath, it will do you good.
Immigration figures are decreasing at the moment anyway. But facts are irrelevant; in the words of our sad excuse for a Prime Minister: ‘people are experiencing a migration crisis’.
