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RIGHT-WING Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte celebrated victory yesterday over far-right Islamophobe Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party, receiving acclamation from neoliberal politicians across the EU.
Their congratulations had more to do with Mr Rutte having defeated Mr Wilders’s antiEuropean Union policies than his anti-Muslim rantings, which were echoed in the campaign by the incumbent PM.
As though to confirm this, Mr Rutte commented bizarrely that the voters had rejected the “wrong kind of populism,” intimating perhaps that his was the right kind.
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY