Van Haga with a cap

Looking back on Saturday, can you still laugh at anything? Yes, at BVNL, the political project of slum landlord Wybren van Haga, who always pretends to stick the thermometer deep in society's bottom, but meanwhile fails to realize that the patient doesn't want his hands on the bed at all. He was the only political party on that stage of "Els Rechts," with his entire top three – himself, Dorien Rookmaker, and Harm Beertema – no less. With caps on their heads! Wybren van Haga with a cap is even more ludicrous than Wybren van Haga without one. Your imagination runs wild. What would Wybren van Haga look like with a frikandel, or in a mobility scooter? He – and Dorien especially not, but oh well, what does that matter – seemed oblivious to the fact that he was spitting at a field full of scum while ranting on stage.

The first thing he said was that he estimated the turnout at two hundred thousand, but that the Volkskrant newspaper was likely to estimate that number to 25 this Monday. That estimate isn't yet known at the time of writing, but it will likely be different. He then thanked all the football fans in advance.

"They're here to protect us, because you never know what might happen. Thank you!!"

"Please," the hooligans must have thought, because a few minutes later they were already in hand-to-hand combat on the A12. Wybren later tweeted that it was a small group; he hadn't really noticed them, except at the beginning. There were a lot of them.

It pretty much sums up how they view society at BVNL. Or rather: they don't look at all, they just shout in the hope that whole tribes will follow them, which will never happen. Even if the three of them, wearing their caps, fall backwards down a slide into a bucket of shit to scientifically determine whether asylum seeker poop sometimes stinks even more, they still don't.

I'm not jealous of the confidence to shout one-liners at a fighting pitch, but it is amusing. For BVNL, it was another pointless day in a seemingly endless series of pointless days leading up to the elections. Nothing achieved again, except that the D66 flag flies even more proudly in the center of The Hague, but that's probably not the intention.

Marcel van Roosmalen writes a column on Mondays and Thursdays.