Tommorow is voting day.
Polls show a tight race between 4 parties.
- VVD ("liberal" conservatives that literally fucked up everything but deny any wrong doing, their new Kurdish dom mommy leader pledges to solve the issues they created - kind of a Sunak situation but they forced this vote themselves)
- PVV (a party of literally 1 guy and a few associates who has been hiding in a bunker for 20 years because he hates Islam
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- GroenLinks-PvdA (frankenstein monster of climate marxism lead by Frans Timmermans)
- NSC (new party formed by the most capable bureaucrats lead by anti-corruption autisty Pieter Omtzigt, which has lost ground to the PVV as the 'angry vote' because he's indecisive about becoming prime minister and not governing with GroenLinks-PvdA)
The key issues
- Healthcare (waiting lists, high costs, staff shortages)
- Uncontrolled migration (50% of university students are foreigners, companies hire cheap labour from Poland/Bulgaria and finally we admit ~85% of all asylum seekers of which over 50% end up on welfare)
- Rampant inflation (cost of living basically, highest energy prices in Europe, went up like 900%)
- Housing shortage (affordable homes have been sold off to investors, nothing is being build because of government regulations)
- Broken tax system (expats have to pay 30% less tax, income is taxed far less than labour and there are many more tax loopholes like this. Because of intertwined benefits working more means earning less in most cases)
- Long COVID / COVID (government has blocked any serious research or compensation for COVID/Long COVID)
- Various government scandals courtesy of the VVD, trust in government is at an all time low
- Climate (in a dril budget way we have nearly 35 billion parked in a climate fund)
About 50% of the voters are still unsure who to vote for, which is a new record in indecisiveness.
The expectation is that those voters will continue to flock to the PVV and GroenLinks-PvdA.
FVD could also surprise, because they've been very active on TikTok posting memes about Minecraft and Andrew Tate and won the 'school elections' with the PVV which is sort of a mock election for high school students. I think most people will strategically vote for PVV or GroenLinks-PvdA though at the expense of VVD, NSC and various small parties.
The fun part begins after the elections because no one wants to govern with the PVV, GroenLinks-PvdA doesn't want to govern with the VVD and NSC would rather not govern with VVD either. If you combine all the left/right wing parties into two camps the split would be something like 65% - 75% for the right and 35% - 25% for the left.
Polls show a tight race between 4 parties.
- VVD ("liberal" conservatives that literally fucked up everything but deny any wrong doing, their new Kurdish dom mommy leader pledges to solve the issues they created - kind of a Sunak situation but they forced this vote themselves)
- PVV (a party of literally 1 guy and a few associates who has been hiding in a bunker for 20 years because he hates Islam
)- GroenLinks-PvdA (frankenstein monster of climate marxism lead by Frans Timmermans)
- NSC (new party formed by the most capable bureaucrats lead by anti-corruption autisty Pieter Omtzigt, which has lost ground to the PVV as the 'angry vote' because he's indecisive about becoming prime minister and not governing with GroenLinks-PvdA)
The key issues
- Healthcare (waiting lists, high costs, staff shortages)
- Uncontrolled migration (50% of university students are foreigners, companies hire cheap labour from Poland/Bulgaria and finally we admit ~85% of all asylum seekers of which over 50% end up on welfare)
- Rampant inflation (cost of living basically, highest energy prices in Europe, went up like 900%)
- Housing shortage (affordable homes have been sold off to investors, nothing is being build because of government regulations)
- Broken tax system (expats have to pay 30% less tax, income is taxed far less than labour and there are many more tax loopholes like this. Because of intertwined benefits working more means earning less in most cases)
- Long COVID / COVID (government has blocked any serious research or compensation for COVID/Long COVID)
- Various government scandals courtesy of the VVD, trust in government is at an all time low
- Climate (in a dril budget way we have nearly 35 billion parked in a climate fund)
About 50% of the voters are still unsure who to vote for, which is a new record in indecisiveness.
The expectation is that those voters will continue to flock to the PVV and GroenLinks-PvdA.
FVD could also surprise, because they've been very active on TikTok posting memes about Minecraft and Andrew Tate and won the 'school elections' with the PVV which is sort of a mock election for high school students. I think most people will strategically vote for PVV or GroenLinks-PvdA though at the expense of VVD, NSC and various small parties.
The fun part begins after the elections because no one wants to govern with the PVV, GroenLinks-PvdA doesn't want to govern with the VVD and NSC would rather not govern with VVD either. If you combine all the left/right wing parties into two camps the split would be something like 65% - 75% for the right and 35% - 25% for the left.