Today the Dutch goverment resigned. Reason for this is that one of the coalitionpartners were unable to work as a team resulting in fights among the party.

Just for the ones who would have liked to know

Can you explain some more. What do you mean 'resign'?

Did they all quit?

Yes they sort of quit and we have to elect them again (in January i think) Untill then they are considered a (demissionair) goverment and can't make big decisions (that is what i got from it anyhow hopefully another Dutch person can explain it better).

So for the time being, you have no government?

Originally posted by Thor
So for the time being, you have no government?

Pretty much however i think they still keep doing their daily tasks (whatever that is)

I don't think they'll give up Golf that easily :D

So what you are saying is....That a tempory govenment will be in place until Janurary when you have to vote everyone back in and it will probably be the guys who were there or the temp guys

Much strangeness

No, the same people stay on but can't make any decisions (they are just there to keep stuff running). In January we can elect again (the party that caused all this comotion dropped from 20+ seats to 7 seats or something) so we will get something else as a goverment.

O....k, but who make the desicions then. Is that the temps job?

no decisions will be made (well small ones will be) but they can't vote on lawchanges and such.

this was all so predictable. i hope u didn't vote for the LPF, bachus! it was only a matter of time..

let's write a book: the mess of 5 months LPF ;)

Originally posted by Frieda
i hope u didn't vote for the LPF, bachus!let's write a book: the mess of 5 months LPF ;)

No i was not allowed to vote for them (my iq was higher then 2) ;)

That book will be pretty easy to write.

Guess we are going to have CDA/VVD ruling now, according to current polls.

hehe lol..

maybe Johan Vlemmix'll be on the list again with the upcoming elections.. lol!

Wasn't he the idiot who wanted a department of party?

Originally posted by Bachus
Wasn't he the idiot who wanted a department of party?

yep! that's the one! :D

do you know what he's doing now? check this site! (http://www.voetreisnaarrome.nl)

Hmmm what a retard has he heard of plain trains and automobiles?

Just got a mail wiht the president and BEN (the phone company) Saying "BEN gevallen" <-- only the dutch will get this :D

heeheh the jokes are already starting.. lol! great!

Yeah can't post it though since my site in not online :(

check your pms, bachus! :)

Just did

tnx lol :D

there's a lot of criticism about Balkenende.. weird.. if anyone else had to do his job, they would've failed too.. maybe even worse!

the LPF is just a bunch of arguing idiots.. no one could've worked with them!

IMNSHO, Balkenende did a reasonably job. I don't see what he could have done to prevent this. Ah well CDA was on 51 :eek: seats according to the polls so he will become president again :)

i agree. Balkenende did what he could.

where did you get the poll information?

Don't know they did mention something on www.fok.nl

Just did a quick search but couldn't find it anymore :(

I gotta learn Dutch.

;) apparently German, dutch, and Frissian are the closest relatives of the english language. Crazy huh? Here i thought english was always derived from latin...although it's actually derived from Old Norse. So it shouldn't be that hard to pick up Dutch..

From what i read anyway...if i'm wrong, yell at me!:D

Originally posted by NenarTronian
I gotta learn Dutch.


here's a dictionary thingy! (http://www.euroglotonline.nl/default_en.htm)

Originally posted by NenarTronian
I gotta learn Dutch.

;) apparently German, dutch, and Frissian are the closest relatives of the english language. Crazy huh? Here i thought english was always derived from latin...although it's actually derived from Old Norse. So it shouldn't be that hard to pick up Dutch..

From what i read anyway...if i'm wrong, yell at me!:D

Well not that hard......even alot of the Dutch have a problem with it :)

Here's a little joke:

BEN (meaning I'm) is a telecom company
gevallen (fallen but when we say the gov resigned we say gevallen)

:D aww guess all the violence was too much for JP Potter..

http://www.noggie.com/lpf/lpf.jpg

ROFLMAO

:D

here's (http://verkiezingen.tros.support.nl/redactie/peiling16102002.html) some poll info by the way..

new forum rule:

No jokes in Dutch! :D

just kidding..but what did that all mean? Or do we have to be familiar with dutch politics to get the jokes?

"I know nothing, say nothing, do nothing"..?

yep, that's "the policy" of the dude on the cover of that book. it's partially his fault that the government has resigned. i'll try to find a website in english that explains the whole situation.

Originally posted by Frieda
here's a dictionary thingy! (http://www.euroglotonline.nl/default_en.htm)

Ooh! A dictionary thingy! Can I eat it?

well you can always try of course..




edit: found some Dutch news sites in English:

Dutch News Digest (http://www.dnd.nl/)

Expatica (http://213.159.10.102/index.asp)

Govnews (http://www.govnews.nl/)