02.09.2012 - 06:47 [ Guardian ]

Dutch embrace radical left as European dream sours

To Wilders‘s acute discomfort, the man who allegedly beat Kara to the ground was called Henk. And his wife – who apparently shouted racist abuse at the victim on the ground – was called Ingrid. The resonance of the names was lost on no one. In the last two years, the Netherlands has learned to live with another „Henk and Ingrid“ – a fictional couple born of Wilders‘s own populist imagination.