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Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders

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Re: Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders

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Would you care to elaborate? I find two distinct reasons why people may dislike or speak against a news source : 1. Quality of investigation, journalism, writing, reportage 2. disagreement with overt or subtle position, bias and perspective Fwiw, Without detail, your comment is automatically presumed in category 2. I for one find guardian very opinionated and biased, but eminently readable. It has a very overt perspe…

> Fwiw, Without detail, your comment is automatically presumed in category 2

I presume only by people who don't know what yellow journalism is as I was quite clear as to why I believe the guardian to be a failing rag.

Re: Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders

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They aren't even kicking out all of the foreigners. He specifically wants to kick out all 'non-western' foreigners which is already a fraction of a fraction of the people who immigrate to the Netherlands. It's just red meat to racists who want to divert the problem away from things that are harder to solve to something that's easier and gets you voted in. I imagine things will go down the same way as it did in the UK…

> He specifically wants to kick out all 'non-western' foreigners which is already a fraction of a fraction of the people who immigrate to the Netherlands Here is a page the Netherlands government with more specific numbers [1]. In 2022 there were roughly 250k immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, or Poland, and the next three biggest sources were Syria, Turkey, and India, combing to maybe 50k combined. [1…

Why is Poland (EU member) lumped in with Ukraine and the former USSR who need permits?
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