The Dutch Government Has Fallen

Tuesday, June 3, 2025, the Schoof Cabinet installed on July 2, 2024, fell following the November 22, 2023, Lower House elections as a result of the fall of the Rutte-IV Cabinet that fell on July 7, 2023. In almost two years, the Netherlands has had a caretaker Cabinet longer than a missionary one. And during this time, nothing has happened but a continuation of the policies of previous Cabinets-Rutte.

Formation

It was difficult to form a new Cabinet. Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) had won the elections overwhelmingly, but actually the other parties did not want to enter into a coalition with the PVV. Now it is precisely the PVV that withdrew their support for the Cabinet, causing it to fall. Where multiple parties argue, all are to blame.

Yeşilgöz’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) had a bad experience in the past with the PVV, which withdrew their tacit support from the Rutte-I cabinet, causing the cabinet to fall. The VVD claims to be to the right of the political middle, but has been sailing a left-wing course since 2012. The VDD also wanted to participate only after Rutte secured his position as Secretary General at NATO.

Omtzigt’s New Social Contract (NSC) was a new political party that entered parliament at once with also a large gain. However, new parties that grow so quickly always face internal friction, as people from different backgrounds suddenly have to work together. One half wanted to cooperate with the PVV, the other half did not. NSC also wanted to do everything “nicely.

Van der Plas’ Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) was the only party with a practical attitude, arguing that the Dutch citizens had chosen after which politics should deliver. But even the BBB has only been active in Dutch politics for a few years and thus has people on board who have their “own” opinion which is not in line with the program their voters voted for.

Coalition Agreement

Migration was the main theme in the elections and the PVV was proud to present “the strictest asylum policy ever. For this, however, the PVV had to surrender all other points. Climate measures, nitrogen policy, support for Ukraine and EU membership will continue. Lowering rents, abolishing the deductible in health care, introducing a binding referendum and an elected mayor could not.

The Dutch people had chosen a new right-wing course, but the political elite decided to continue on the liberal path that had started decades ago. You can say that there are just as many voters who are happy with liberalism, but for that you would have to look beyond voting behavior. This also applies to PVV voters, because why do people vote for a party.

Vote

GreenLeft (GL) is a party in favor of renewable energy sources, but their voters do not want a windmill near their homes either. Forum for Democracy (FvD) is a party that is in favor of farmers, but they bring no nuance and apparently don’t think mega-stalls and bio-industry are a problem. People choose a program without nuance and vision of results.

It will not be possible to find people who completely agree with a party program. They will choose the program closest to what they themselves think is most important. Do they then choose consciously and are they aware of the facts? Do they choose from a gut feeling fed from the media? Do they choose because they and their supporters have always chosen this way?

If you don’t want to discriminate on principle, have a good heart and want to be able to offer asylum seekers a place to stay, don’t have any negative experience with asylum seekers because you might live somewhere where asylum seekers don’t come, don’t know about the crime rates and hate people who are against the arrival of asylum seekers, then you don’t choose the PVV.

Whether that helps the country and the asylum seekers is open to question. There are limits, literally and figuratively. A country cannot accept unlimited numbers of asylum seekers, just as every house can only accommodate a limited number of residents. Once it stops and there are plenty of indications that the limit has been reached. But someone who doesn’t see that or doesn’t want to see that, they certainly won’t vote PVV.

Polarization

The big problem is polarization, we are almost forced to be for or against something. Nuance is hard to find, an honest conversation has become virtually impossible. The Netherlands was once a very tolerant country, but little is left of that. The reason is that people no longer talk to each other; dialogue has given way to monologues. Truth is no longer the goal.

Decades of immigration have resulted in the dilution of one’s own culture. The desired integration of migrants has never materialized. Too many migrants do not learn the language. The excessive influx disproportionately burdens the housing market, healthcare and the social welfare state. In recent years, incidents of vice and violence are increasing extremely.

The asylum seekers who have been here longer will also have fewer opportunities if new ones keep arriving. Shouldn’t we take care of them first and make sure they can integrate? Noteworthy many migrants who have been here longer vote for the PVV hoping to turn the tide. Most people who vote for the PVV are not necessarily against asylum seekers, but argue that it is just not possible now.

What I don’t hear few people or the PVV about is why there are asylum flows at all and what we can do to prevent them. Or rather, what should our government itself stop doing. Isn’t it the West that robs resources and litters all over the world? Our government has given military resources to terrorist organizations. So what do you expect?

Propaganda

No program on Dutch television is positive about Wilders and the PVV, despite the fact that the PVV received 25% of the vote in the last election. Those millions of PVV voters do not feel seen and heard, which has serious consequences in society. Dutch journalists and television producers still do not understand that their approach is counterproductive.

The government actively persecutes people of right-wing persuasion who expose and oppose government propaganda, while people of left-wing persuasion get away with slander, discrimination and corruption. Propaganda is increasing, censorship is increasing, freedom of speech is decreasing, and a totalitarian system is gradually taking hold.

The liberals are fine with it because they get their way. If it were the other way around, they in particular would have been on the barricades. I am still amazed that they are in favor of carbon taxes. Maybe because there is finally a focus on the environment, that they take all these corporatist measures at face value. That they don’t understand that big money doesn’t care about the environment, merely about profit.

Here, COVID19 vaccinations are still effective, the excess mortality does not need to be explained, and true Corona research is not underway. Here humans are thought to have a greater impact on the Earth than the Sun. Here nitrogen destroys far more nature than in neighboring countries. Here the Queen can state at the WEF that digital money (including identity) is a great idea.

Wake up

Now don’t think I’m a PVV fan. The PVV is pro-Israel and does not think the genocide it is committing in Gaza is a problem. Wilders is just taking a picture with Zelenski. The ex-Minister of Health (PVV) thinks it is no problem for underage children to go on irreversible puberty inhibitors. Wilders has close ties with Israel and hates everything to do with Islam.

As if again there is no nuance at all. Wilders is the PVV because the PVV has only one member and that is Wilders. So the PVV in itself is not democratic. The PVV is not actually right-wing either, because by far most of their program is left-wing. Not that it matters, but what do people actually choose? Do they choose fewer migrants or do they oppose current policies? Protest voters.

Right and Left don’t really exist anymore, rather you see a division between Globalists and Nationalists. Liberal Globalists glorify the EU and Nationalists hate foreigners. I mention the extremes, but there is less and less gray area. Assuming the average citizen has any insight into what is really happening. After all, we have been lied to rock hard for many decades.

The strange thing is that very often people are awake in one area, but still asleep when it comes to other areas. Someone who no longer gets vaccinated, but is fine with the war with Russia. Someone who sees through the climate hoax, but thinks President Trump is going to save the world. Someone who condemns capitalism, but would like to win in the lottery.

Elections

The PVV has withdrawn its Ministers from the Cabinet and the other three parties (VVD, NSC and BBB) are “just” continuing in a caretaker capacity with the policies they were already working on. Resolved. New elections, new opportunities. Meanwhile, Defense can quietly prepare for the war needed to declare the bankruptcy of the Netherlands (and the EU).

The people are and remain ignorant. Politics, media, institutions and even the judiciary play their game for the people who enjoy bread and games. Perhaps, then, a people and country do not deserve better. Ignorance is surmountable if you make an effort to do want to know. After all, the advent of the Internet has made the world smaller and the Netherlands is very small.

The new elections will make no difference at all, change nothing at all. The PVV had nice talk but managed to deliver nothing. The VVD just had to bide its time. The NSC will shrivel up, as will the BBB. The parties that were punished by the voters last time will get votes again and so we suck on with more of the same.

There are only two Dutch political parties with a sound of their own. Forum for Democratie (FvD) wants to make a structural break with the established order. For example, FvD wants The Netherlands out of the EU, out of NATO and work towards direct democracy including a binding referendum. The Socialist Party (SP) is the only left-wing party that still has an original left-wing signature. The SP stands for equality.

Conclusion

Nothing will change. Everything depends on the people waking up and I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Too many people vote for parties because they have always voted that way. Too many people vote for parties from their gut feeling, because they don’t know the facts and don’t want to make an effort to find out the truth. The people who are awake no longer vote.

The remarkable thing is, if you don’t vote, you have become personally freer. For you have not given your vote away. Your voice stays with you and does not become part of the circus that can sustain itself with power given away. This is a deep spiritual insight that you only fathom the moment you have truly completely detached yourself from the propaganda that voting would be your civic duty.

Nico Cost