Netherlands, where do you think your going?!

[Thrawn]

Cripes!  Even the Americans figured out who their government was in a couple of weeks.  But you guys, two federal elections in how many months?  Who is in charge over there, who exactly controls your military?  

Will Ottawa still get it's tulips this spring?  

What are you guys up to anyways?  And who do you think you're fooling?  




"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A resurgent Labour party looks set to remove murdered populist Pim Fortuyn's party from government in the Netherlands.

Fortuyn's anti-immigration LPF party was facing a rout as polls forecast it would lose 75 percent of seats it won in last May's election.

Last October it brought down the centre-right coalition in which it was a member after just 87 days in office.

Last-minute opinion polls gave Labour a slim lead over Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democrats (CDA), which last year formed a short-lived coalition with the novice Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) and the free-market VVD. "

[StSanta]

Socialists in power in Europe is the norm, not the exception.

Take Sweden. Social democrats all the way except a brief period where Carl Bildt was prime minister.

Now that dude I'd vote for. Got both brains and integrity. Doing a helluva job nowadays too. And speaks with a cool accent.

[Thud]

Ah well, all those years of moderacy, compromises and tolerance dominating Dutch politics did eventually annoy a lot of people. So they all went into mass-hysteria and voted for a new excentric right-wing politician who stood for a new kind of politics, they thought. He was killed, his followers and representatives proved to be all worthless incompetent morons, and the coalition these were part of fell. Everybody came back to their right minds and voted for normal parties again.

So now there will be a stable coalition again, made up of the largest party, the conservative christian CDA and the second largest, the moderately socialist PvDA (Labour).

So are we steerless? Hardly, the first election was a brief uprising of unhappiness with the way thing were going in general, the second election was a logical follow-up which restored the natural balance of power.

Now everybody will get their tulips in time again..

[Swoop]

Riiiii-iiiight.

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Thud
Now everybody will get their tulips in time again..

I wasn't being sacastic.  Every year the Netherlands sends Ottawa, thousands of tulips.  The Dutch royal family stayed here during the war.  Our parilment declared the third floor of the Grace Hospital to be Dutch sovreign terrirtory so one of your princesses could be born in the Netherlands.  And the Hague is Ottawa's sister city.  So every year we get the tulips and have  huge spring festival in honour of it.  

http://www.tulipfestival.ca/tulip_history/

See it even has it's own webpage.  



We have similar relationship with the US.  Except it's not flowers they send us, it's acid rain.  And we don't have a festival, just dead lakes.