Timmermans, do not step into the fitting wing migration body, suppose your personal left story – Joop – BNNVARA

In an interview with Trouw on June 14, Frans Timmermans makes a number of sturdy statements about asylum migration. One assertion stood out specifically: “For those who admit everybody, you will blow up the entire welfare state. ” This bombshell declare is opposite to the details. Our welfare state and different very important sources corresponding to housing are below strain as the fitting to make main cuts. Blaming migrants for this can be a delusional and scapegoat coverage that requires a powerful response from the left.

Let’s begin with the guts of the issue. The welfare state and different public providers are certainly below strain. Many individuals are rightly offended about this. However so far as migration has something to do with this, it’s wealthy hypothesis that buys properties and abroad takeovers in youth care that trigger social breakdown. Asylum migration has little or no to do with this.

Dissatisfaction in society is a singular alternative to restart our leftist story, with analyzes that match the instances. Because of this you actually take note of folks’s considerations, as a result of then yow will discover actual options. Way more environment friendly and trustworthy than bending together with the fitting hand frames.

The primary challenges of our time – whether or not we’re speaking in regards to the housing disaster, the local weather disaster or dissatisfaction with migration in altering working-class neighbourhoods, just like the Hague neighborhood the place I stay: at in the end they’re problems with distribution. So undoubtedly on the left!

Timmermans additionally says within the interview that the left beforehand didn’t criticize asylum migration, however that they criticized labor migration, based mostly on the concept we will solely lose on asylum migration. I don’t share that evaluation. After I was within the Home of Representatives on behalf of GroenLinks, I held debates on integration and migration. It’s true that I’ve usually stood up for refugees and criticized the disadvantages of unregulated labor migration. The latter, nevertheless, isn’t for strategic causes, however from realism. Labor migration is by far the most important a part of migration to the Netherlands. Whereas the scapegoats are appropriate and dehumanize folks fleeing, they open the doorways extensive to unregulated and subsequently unprotected migrant staff. Labor migration additionally has advantages, however I additionally see how labor migration places strain on public sources. Corporations actually get the advantages in Westland, whereas the burdens are borne in our neighborhood in The Hague and related neighborhoods within the Netherlands. Once more a distribution problem. Wanting a ruling that could be very left wing.

As former vice-chairman of the committee that wrote the European election manifesto for GroenLinks and PvdA, I can proudly say that we now have instructed a real, particular person, leftist and humane story about migration. We acknowledge folks’s considerations and supply our personal solutions. Options based mostly on solidarity, justice and human dignity. However above all, options which are based mostly on evaluation of what’s going on. If you wish to clear up the housing disaster, you should construct extra homes and ban speculators. Do not make new folks the scapegoat. Nobody can stay in faux politics.

That is my enchantment to Timmermans and to GroenLinks-PvdA: give you your personal story. We have to take folks’s considerations significantly, however on the identical time present that there’s sufficient for everybody if we do greed and share wealth pretty. That should be the idea of our new left narrative. I’m satisfied that we will win the hearts and minds of individuals once more.