Letter 3: ‘Rutte cause of polarization’ | What you say

Prime Minister Rutte is now suddenly calling for fraternization because it is election time again. According to Rutte, the pandemic is the cause of polarization within our society and then I wonder, what rock has it been under lately?

Every day citizens are confronted with too expensive groceries, too expensive fuel, too high energy costs, too high housing costs, a bad state of our national police, education and health care, the housing shortage and the shameful handling of the earthquake damage and benefits affair. And then we also have sky-high inflation that is not being tackled because the southern European countries there then suffer.

Then your call for fraternization is completely inappropriate, all the more because Rutte and his policy are largely to blame for this? You are the cause of polarization, Prime Minister Rutte!

J.van der Meeren, Eindhoven

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