Richard White
Senior Member
Placeholder for future elections.
What do you mean? Why would this upcoming election be America's last?Well, unlike America, at least there's a decent chance it won't be Canada's last.
What do you mean? Why would this upcoming election be America's last?
Become official in September 2023.If the election is held after April 2024, there will be a a new election map, due to the recent electoral commission redistribution.
Here are the new Toronto ridings:
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Well, unlike America, at least there's a decent chance it won't be Canada's last.
Like millions of other Dutch voters on Wednesday, Jeanette voted for Wilders, largely, she says, out of anger that she and her family face a struggle to make ends meet. Reeling off a litany of monthly costs she must pay out of her €2,422 (£2,106) a month net salary, she appeared to have been drawn to his positioning as a champion of the ordinary person struggling amid the cost of living crisis.
“People from the outside think we are OK here in the Netherlands. We are wealthy compared to Belgium or Turkey, that is true. They don’t understand why people voted for Wilders but if you are here you know why,” she said.
Jeanette said she did not agree with all Wilders’ past anti-Islam declarations, including a call for fewer Moroccans in the country and a ban on the hijab – “If people want to wear that I understand.” But amid her socioeconomic complaints there is a familiar whiff of resentment.
“We are a wealthy country, but how do we in Holland have to pay that much and yet they say to migrants: ‘Come on in, have what you like, we will give you everything’?” she asked.
Matthijs Rooduijn, associate professor of political science at Amsterdam University, says such views are common among Wilders voters. “When you look at the electorate of the PVV in general, it consists of people who experience more difficulties to get by. They are more lonely. They feel that they are being neglected. They have tough lives basically, economically but also culturally,” he said.
“The PVV, of course, is not a party that is really leftwing when it comes to socioeconomic politics, but it is a party that is also when it comes to socioeconomics is not really rightwing … Wilders presents himself as there for the poor: it’s also what people sometimes call welfare chauvinism. So he argues that the people who have difficulties should be helped, but that is only true for what he calls ‘Henk and Ingrid’, the Dutch names that he calls his voters. And that’s not ‘Mohammed and Fatima’, so to speak. So it is welfare, but only for, according to him, our people.”
I posted it here as there’s a very good chance that Canadians are going through the same scenario but our polls just do not pick up that resentment. People are reluctant to talk about it due to shame, socioeconomic anxiety and sometimes the taboo nature of mentioning controlled immigration that gets spun into anti-immigration.Interesting post, but it seems like it would belong in the News from Europe thread. For it to go here, I think it ought to be tied to our next election.
Along with names and addresses, I think I recall it listing occupations.If you're old enough, you may remember when the list of eligible voters was posted on a telephone pole, tree or building... Some people were concerned about privacy (given their names and addresses were posted publicly)...