lAng-Live-de-Lol presenter Rutger Castricum cheerfully asked Climate Minister Sophie Hermans if in her talks with Tata Steel she was pushing for “fewer, less, less” CO2 emissions, and the Minister reacted first disappointed, then angry. and then furious. ‘There was no way’ he tolerated ‘silly jokes’ referencing ‘that terrible statement’.
Isn’t it? That is not the case. Still, I wondered what I was really looking at. To a sudden outburst of principle from someone who knows full well that he is forming a government with people who still strongly support that “terrible statement”, with a Secretary of State who can’t even keep him in office? Or the opposite of what was called the ‘PVV task’ in the Rutte era? Back then, VVD members had to make bold statements to take the wind out of Wilders, but now a strategic distance does not hurt, with a view to the future, when things fall apart and the question is who will be to blame for this.
