Some more details:
- https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/01/dutch-government-collapses-in-fall-out-from-child-benefit-scandal/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55674146
Better than America. Shit if you got caught redlining homes in a bank, you fucking get a promotion
As a Dutch citizen I can't wait until the March election where we can effectively choose between reelecting the guy who's been in charge for the entire duration of this scandal or one of the two fascists who've been using it to enhance their own popularity.
They were going to get kicked out anyway in a few days (something like a vote of no-confidence, if I understand correctly), so why not resign and save your honour? It's sort of like Nixon resigning before he could get impeached.
Many of the families were targeted based on their ethnic origin or dual nationalities, the tax office said last year.
What? They got this from an actual official?
I assume this was said after it had all come out and an 'investigation' had been done to 'find out' what had 'gone wrong'.
Just seemed like a very open admission. Usually it is couched in something.
Someone who is familiar with Dutch politics please tell me this doesn't mean the anti-islam party is going to win by default.
Dutch politics is a bit more complicated than that. If this scandal causes the current ruling neoliberal party (VVD) to lose too many votes, it is possible that PVV (the anti-islam party) manages to get a plurality of the votes but since several other big parties have often stated that they will not form a coalition with the PVV, they are unlikely to be able to build a government, giving the second-biggest party a cance to form one. Since the Netherlands has about 15 different flavours one of liberal parties, it's probably going to be another one of those.
