Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1.  @timothymattnew  Why should we build more houses for foreigners? Who does the government have to serve?
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  2.  @TheLuxGirl2077  Don't project your racism on the Dutch. Wilders is half Indo, Yesilgöz is a Turkish Kurd from birth, Omtzigt's wife is Turkish and one of Van der Plas parents is foreign too. Wilders party has been the biggest or 2nd biggest among the Surinamese in NL for over a decade. Dutch "right wing" parties don't have to do tokenism, they have natural presence of well integrated people with an immigration background. It is the left parties that have to drag in some colour and opt for those who put their immigration background on the foreground.
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  3.  @JSK010  Dutch citizenship is the most valuable thing Dutch government can offer, they get it for being on welfare for 5 years living in house appropriated by government for them.
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  4. No, the Moroccans born from guest workers had a marriage arranged with their cousin in Morocco so a bigger part of the family could get access to Dutch welfare too.
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  5. On the matter of extremism, it's not just about government. The Animal Party could be seen as pretty extreme, and so could the SGP (the christian fundamentalists) and in the past we've had communists, anarchists and a quite radical farmer's party. Most of them have shown to be a valuable contribution to debates and often the outcome and laws from their position despite not having much power.
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  6. Social housing that even isn't the government's but is privately not for profit owned.
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  7. I guess you avoided a lot of neighbourhoods, wisely.
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  8.  @sperzieb00n  No, there has been a lot wrong with the housing policy of the 'centre right' but the Dutch population is not growing and the shortage of housing is about equal to the net influx of immigrants in the past 10 years. The government has been artificially increasing demand for housing, without organizing supply. Same for doctors, teachers, infrastructure, grid and elektricity, water, recreational spaces, police, whatever.
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  9.  @timothymattnew  If you build for your own people. Asylum seekers do not serve the Dutch people and therefore attracting them with free housing does not serve the Dutch people.
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  10.  @sperzieb00n  It was ruined by mass immigration primarily. Supply of housing is limited by nature, demand for housing in the Netherlands is infinite when government keeps splashing residency permits around. It's not the governments job to serve foreigners interest in living here, that goes against the constitution and the 'democratische rechtsstaat'.
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  11. Xenophobia has nothing to do with anti-mass-immigration.
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  12.  @Teutathis  Northern is not a word that can be spoken strictly culturally, contrary to Scandinavian or Western. I believe the Netherlands is Western-Europe or North-Western Europe but not Northern Europe. I don't agree either. I don't feel close to Scandinavian at all. Of course there are similarities, but those are there with Poland and France too.
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  13.  @Moreso_fly  It's a charicature but not free from truth. Much of the Moroccan community's growth has come from marriage with a Moroccan and the resulting children.
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  14. @@Besthinktwice Especially the national politicians, they have still have some loyalty to their people. The foreign politicians don't. They should not decide what happens to a different people, that can't vote for or against them.
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  15. No, the particracy is the problem. Stretching the coalition talks forever is what parties do when they don't want the election result to change anything.
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  16.  @nox5555  For foreigners? Let them do that themselves.
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  17. The Hungerians probably have seen what has been happening in Germany, France and Sweden and are craving cultural enrichment too.
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  18. It's a very open system by design. The beauty of it is that the voters and candidates have decided to make it not really a thing, but they could if they wanted to. Just like the voters and the candidates have made political parties into a thing, the systam allows for that but doesn't force it upon the voters.
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  19. The economy doing good for you is so very 1990s. GDP means that a lot of money can made off the Netherlands. It's not even GDP per capital. We have got a lot of foreign workers making profits for foreign shareholders using Dutch tax payers infrastructure and services to get Dutch tax breaks.
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  20. Why? Those people, including Californian 'refugees' btw, want to come to the Netherlands.
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  21. Without the Northern Netherlands you'd still be expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
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  22.  @joskoeleman950  Which isn't actually fraud but suddenly this paper and a hospital start to worry about private profits from publicly financed research...
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  23.  @odril  A phobia is an irrational fear, this is about a completely reasonable and rational worry. The Dutch are the least xenophobic people in the world. There is no issue with strangers, what people seem to not understand or refuse to acknowledge is that immigration is not about foreigners being present, but a continuous inlfux of foreigners, year in year out making any problem with them greater by the week.
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  24.  @MartinMenge  No, it isn't. Belang means interest, stake, importance. Belangrijk, "rich in interest" means important. Belangstelling means taking an interest, being interested, mostly as in curious. Has nothing to do with belonging.
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  25. What people fail to understand is that the so called centre right or centre left is economically far right, the Netherlands and the Dutch people to be exploited by the international corporatocracy, including mass immigration and using the Dutch people's welcoming and tolerant nature to burden them to the max. Great for GDP but not for GDP per capita, great for profits of foreign corporations with foreign shareholders employing foreigners in the Netherlands, while the Dutch employees have seen their tax and social security cost raised from 35 to 40% of their salary while paying much, much more for housing, energy, health care and groceries. Small and mid sized entrepreneurs and companies struggling, big corporations enjoying tax havens. Explain to me how that was not right wing.
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  26.  @arjanzweers6542  They have been made 'impossible' to govern with because the federal EU and the mass immigration have to go on. These matters have to be outside the debate and should not be decided on by the voter, not in general elections, not in referenda, they just keep on happening while the parties debate about 0.3% more spending power for a certain group. That's a problem with any system, just like nothing will change with Wall Street in the US because both parties agree that Wall Street should be left alone.
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  27.  @lllluka  It's more that Flemish is the common language for and from several different Flemish dialects like Dutch is the common language for and from the Northern dialects. But because it's common, it's almost the same, because they are fed from different area's and the North and the South have been seperated for 450 years, the accent is quite different and the vocabulary and epressions might suddenly differ.
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  28. 421 denominations if I remember correctly. That's what you get if you let people interpret the bible themselves for over 400 years.
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  29.  @FrankeNamensKarim  The EU distributes, in favour of the big corporations, but it's still distribution. Communist means for neoliberal ends.
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  30.  @puraLusa  The subsidiarity principle is that the EU only makes rules for what cannot be done nationally. But that is of course levels above your insights into the EU, the less people know and understand, the more they like the EU. Give them a ballot to put in a container and they believe it's democracy, worked for cargo cults too. Then you tell them what to do because they like to be submissive.
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  31. Why don't you make your own place nice? Your wish should be irrelevant to the Duch government because it's not your government. You should be of value to Dutch society.
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  32. What is right of left about that? The former hard progressive pacifist left is now sucking up to the military-industrial complex.
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  33. The problem is that islam is a religion that has to rule and that's why so many muslims still don't respect the freedom of religion the Netherlands invented that allowed them to live there as a muslim in the first place. That's not only dangerous, it's also extremely ungrateful.
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  34. No, the left has shifted, away from ordinary nationals to foreigners and things like sexuality and identity that are intrinsically not government but private matters. Old fashioned social democrats are far right in their view now. Let's not go along with that absurd view.
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  35. And the EU is not Europe. Calling the EU Europe is imperialistic propaganda.
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  36.  @mormacil  Why did they make up facts about the Netherlands then?
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  37.  @mormacil  Failing to form a government? a seperate pillar for immigrants with own hospitals? That's already two things from the top of my head that didn't happen.
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  38.  @mormacil  "Dispite his thumping victory Wilders has been unable to form a governing coalition... " Like those two are related, it's a complete misrepresentation of how Dutch government makings work and how it is going. Immigration doesn't appear to be the big sticking point at all. Then he proceeds to go into the history of anti immigration sentiment. What about the anti immigration rationale? There is much pro immigration sentiment and no reason. It's not an example of a pillared hospital, that's BS and also not a product of the 70's or 80's like the claim in the video. A pillared muslim hospital would mean that muslim would start a hospital, empoly muslim doctors and nurses to treat muslimpatients, allmost all of them in the area. Of course the Dutch muslim community can't build or found anything useful themselves. Their schools are a mess, their broadcaster went down on corruption, they abused the Labour party to start their own political party, their clubs are a mess, no way they get near enough muslim doctors and nurses to care for the excessive medical needs of the muslim community.
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  39.  @mormacil  No, it's not a factually correct or objective description because it implies that thanks to the thumping victory Wilders could have formed a governing coalition by now. That's anglocentric BS, a total misrepresentation of how it works in Dutch politics.
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  40. Most benefits of the EU are not benefits of the EU at all but benefits of the EEC, like free trade, that have been appropriated by the EU to force their unelected political agenda with. The only reason member state citizens might be optimistic about the EU is because the European journalists don't do their jobs but have become EU propagandists, and public survey companies can no longer be trusted either. No, I'm not optimistic. It's becoming a straight up antidemocratic power grabber that's rotten to the core, morally and financially corrupt, with a disregard for it's ordinary citizens.
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  41. The main part of the housing crisis is caused by the government policy of mass immigration in unprecedented levels.
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  42.  @bigpapa1954  So you didn't really want to learn the language, you wanted random people to learn you the language.
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  43. Of course, the globalists start a slander campaign. It's just protectionism vs free trade, yeah right. We worked so hard for so long in secret on it, now you can't say no anymore.
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  44. The radical demographic change of the Netherlands was never openly chosen for, it has been sneaked through under the guise of 'refugees', the higher education in English, which is against the law actually, and so called 'skilled migrants' and lately Ukrainian refugees. The people never wanted that and never chose for that, the realized the only way to change that was to vote Wilders because the VVD is a bunch of liars who broke up the government over immigration for another attempt to win the elections with a false anti-immigration promise.
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  45.  @odril  No, I don't forget mass. The other form of immigration, motivated by strictly personal circumstances like falling in love with a Dutch person or do that one unique job there, is no problem to anybody. It would if there was xenophobia. You flip the question around. Why would we be in favour of mass immigration? It increases profits for banks, real estate sharks and the international corporatocracy, I understand that. But what's in it for us other than more crime and unsafety, unaffordable housing, shortage of doctors and teachers, sharply declining education levels, power outages, overcrowded traffic and basically everthing? Opporunities to "practice our English" with people who speak it far worse?
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  46.  @odril  It's not just supported by the data, the data throw it in your face, hard. The majority of crime in the Netherlands comes from immigrants and 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants.
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  47.  @odril  No it isn't, contrary to islamophobia xenophobia does exist, it's just extremely rare in the Netherlands. A xenophobic would fear or shy away from interacting with a stranger because of unknown habits or something, that's completely different from the real threat of many strangers continuing to come in and stay strangers and change the place you live negatively. Not the least bit of xenophobia is required to be opposed to that.
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  48. No, because they are liars who want more immigrants. It's the only way they can make GDP increase, just force more people in and increase taxes to pay for them.
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  49. The EU has a migration policy? How so, the EU doesn't have any land? The migration pact shows why this can't work, they are proud to have reached an agreement after 7 years. 7 years of in which millions of 'irregular' migrants arrived, a much higher cost per person than 20.000 euros. Also the member states don't have a responsibility to accept foreigners at all. The fact that the EU wants African and Middle Eastern immigrants does not make it a responsibility.
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  50. Dutch citizenship is a lot to ask. It's not to have had on the side.
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