In the local elections, Geert Wilders has won a seat in Almere (a sort of “New Town/City” outside Amsterdam, similar concept to Milton Keynes)
Unfortunately although its more a possibility he will remain a fringe politician, the presence of his party now in Power will force Dutch politics further towards the right wing. Just as in England, immigration might not be so easy a target as much of it is essential to a European nation – but the drugs culture might be easier to attack as there is more of a consensus developing against it..
I have a nasty feeling all those really excellent-looking rave events in NL (where you pay only €50 max for 3 day events with all the top names like Armin Van Buuren, Tiësto etc might soon be stopped. Although us British seem to think “anything goes” across the North Sea, the impression I have got is that normal Dutch folk think the drugs/sex counterculture the NL is viewed for is a bit of an embarassment, that the people involved in it are “losers” and they would rather be rid of it..
AVB certainly distances himself from drugs (I always had a feeling he was a very clean living intelligent bloke..)
Beat Factor: Amsterdam is known as a city without restrictions on drugs. You manage the record label there; what’s your position upon drugs?
Armin van Buuren: I don’t do drugs and I never will.
http://www.beatfactor.net/interviews/1095/
