Lower Still

Sensible moderates in the Netherlands are considering their options after a far-right chancer won the greatest number of seats in the House of Representatives. Conservatives have already declared their willingness to support Geert Wilders on some issues: a slightly more nuanced position than that of the Conservative, Unionist and Team Starmer wings of the British Neoliberal Party, whose embrace of Farage Falange rhetoric and policies has been wholehearted and unequivocal. Meanwhile, the Dutch finance minister has warned that, although Wilders may present himself as a barmy old bigot with mediaeval ethics and a near-British capacity for hypocrisy, he may in fact be something altogether less endearing.