UPDATED: Congrats to Geert Wilders on stunning election victory

The usual gang of One-Worlders, ComSymps and other loonie leftists are crying in their Heineken, Amstel and Oranjeboom (look it up) tonight as the final count in yesterday's parliamentary elections in the Netherlands confirms a hyuge victory for the "far-right", "anti-Islam", "neoNazi", yada yada yada Geert Wilders and his PPV (Party for Freedom).

In one of the biggest political upsets in Dutch politics since World War II, Dhr Wilders' Freedom Party beat all expectations, winning 37 seats out of 150. That's more than double the number the PVV in the last election. A joint Labour/Green (read: leftist) ticket got 25 seats, just one more than the conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte. 

Dhr Wilders will now have to form a coalition, which is normal in Dutch politics with its multiplicity of competing parties. Talks on who will be included are expected to take months, since the sore losers on the left declared well in advance of the election that they would never co-operate in any way with the man they call "the Dutch Trump".

Dhr Wilders' win came as a shock warning to mainstream parties across Europe ahead of European Parliament elections due next June. The issues in at least the western part of Europe are the same as those which were fought out in the Dutch election: immigration, the high cost of living, the so-called "climate crisis" - "Kill all the cows to save the Earth from global warming" -- and did we mention immigration and what to do with all the Muslims.

The Dutch election result is another sign of the resurgence of the Right across the continent. Most recently there was the election of Giorgia Meloni as prime minister of Italy. Now Dhr Wilders is set to become the first-ever rightist prime minister of the Netherlands. Then we await 2027 and the inevitable election of Marine Le Pen as the first female président of France. Lifetime pct .980.

Further reading (posted 25/11/23): "Did Israel-Palestine protests propel Geert Wilders to victory?" by Freddy Gray, Deputy Editor of The Spectator, 24/11/23. Key takeaway: "...anti-immigration politics is the most potent force in twenty-first century western democracies."

Quote of the week: "The average person doesn’t want to close all doors to refugees and immigrants, but they also don’t want to divert large quantities of public resources to newcomers who disproportionately erode the safety and security of everyone else while soaking up undeserved social benefits." (Jamie Sarkonak, in "Fed up with climate zealotry and immigration, the Dutch lurch to the right", National Post, 26/11/23.)