AMSTERDAM – Hero Brinkman wants,as an independent member of parliament, again become involved in the Caribbean parts of the kingdom. He said that Sunday morning in the television programme “Eva Jinek on Sunday”. In the past, the sharp tone of the former Freedom Party member several times put political relationship with the islands under pressure.
Mr. Hero Brinkman
Last month Brinkman left the PVV. He was thwarted in his attempts to make the PVV democratic and is of the opinion that the party alienates groups of people. Immediate reason for stepping out was his criticism of the so-called “Poland Hotline” of the party.
Kingdom Relations
Brinkman has signed up for the committee Kingdom Relations of the Parliament. After the 2010 elections, he had to give that portfolio to a PVV colleague, but now he wants to fight “corruption and nepotism” again on the islands to denounce these practices.
A few years ago Brinkman pointed his arrows frequently at the former Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. For instance, he suggested in 2008 to put the West Indies for sale on eBay. A statement he later withdrew in Curacao, because it would be counter productive for attracting voters.
He also referred to the islands’ for being a corrupt crooks nest and called a certain Aruban minister a “liar and a coward”. His comments caused a lot of uproar in the islands.
Source: Caribiani, April 8, 2012 (11)
Surely there is no corruption and nepotism in the Netherlands…..right Hero?
Fraud and corruption in the Netherlands run through the veins of the Dutch government and the Dutch business sector. It comes from all sides, from people getting paid under the table for (informal) labour to misusing the social welfare system, just to name a few. The biggest scandal was that of the construction fraud which implicated construction companies and Dutch civil servants and involved enormous amounts of money. The penalties for all these fraudulent actions: monetary fines that were just fractions of the amounts swindled. And then there are narcotics or drugs: The Netherlands is the largest transhipment point in the whole of Europe. A number of integrity violations had been discovered since the National Integrity System was established in the Netherlands in 1992. These include, but are not limited to, bribing, fraud and theft, manipulation of information, discrimination and sexual harassment, and waste and abuse of resources. Police officers who have been trained in the arrest of dangerous suspects work as security officers, lawyers act as substitute judges and are then colleagues of judges who must deal with their demanded sentences in their next civil case, police were discovered to have financed their actions with criminal money, construction companies divide work amongst themselves, agree on possible tenders, and compensate one another for orders they do not get, thus by-passing the workings of the market. Apparently they made use of forged and counterfeit documents and possibly civil servants who were bribed so that they would supply them with crucial information. It goes on, and yes, in the Netherlands. So Hero; if you want to fight corruption and nepotism, there is more than enough work for you in the Netherlands.