” In what world Samson lives anyway?
Image of the political council of members of the Labour Party © anp.
The Labour Party should push government policy to the left. With this command send the members of the ruling party to The Hague. But distrust of the party is great. “In what world Samson lives anyway?”
Really cozy wants not be at the convention center in Nieuwegein, where the Labour Party meeting Saturday to lick the wounds after three dramatic election defeats. Emotions are running high, because it is, according to some members to nothing less than the survival of the party. Hard blame shoot through the room.
,, If a mayor in time of war, we participate in this coalition, ” said a member from Roosendaal. ,, We are just the pigeon association, ” says Jan van Noord from Vlaardingen. ,, Home Sitting, watching the sky and wait if anyone on your shit. ”
,, Diederik Samson became captain of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship that has nowhere to land, ” says Amsterdam Iman Heystek.De embattled party leader chooses the counterattack. Samson admits that “we recently perhaps inadequate ‘in criticism of government policy, but points out subtly that same cabinet carries out a large part of the Labour election.
The Labour members voted in 2012 with the major reforms in healthcare including 5 billion less budget, the feudal system for students and 16 billion in spending cuts and tax increases. ,, Our intentions in the summer of 2012, are now dismissed as neo-liberal policies, ” Samson teaches his comrades go.
Ordinary voters What that
concerned, the PvdA members just ordinary voters. They complain about policies and politicians that they themselves only recently voted for. Another similarity with the electorate is more serious. The party meeting shows a deep lack of trust in the party. Who were deaf to criticism from members and blind to the problems on the street. ,, In what world survives Samson anyway? ” He says. ,, It’s discontent with the political culture, ” indicates the critical senator Adri Duivesteijn.
This dissatisfaction carries in his return to the rapid government formation, in which Samson and Mark Rutte uitruilden their positions against each other. ,, It does not feel that the Labour Party struggles with the VVD to achieve their own ideals. Politics is also a question of feeling: it is good to deal with my voice ”
That has to change, find the members?. The divided party agreed this afternoon that they show more clearly what ideals fights Labour. The answer to the election defeat is “a recognizable sound.”
The government will have to come up with more progressive policies, said party chairman Hans Spekman. ,, As the abolition of unfair youth minimum wage. ” Also decide the PvdA members that the government “under no circumstances” may still cut extra. As the Labour Party, shakes as coalition partner VVD, the ideological feathers.
From a necessity, because there can be just new elections. ,, The coalition has the smallest possible majority. That is so fragile that a semester may no cabinet is more, ” said Gerard Bosman, Labour chairman of Ridderkerk. ,, We should better be ready for it now. ”
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