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PVV intends to make the cuts painfull for the government and NGO's, you are reading too much quality media. Welfare state is good, keep it. After cutting of the dead weight, never thought I would but Wilders has my vote.

You're reading to much bullshit media. Wilders doesn't care about the welfare state. In the early days after he left the VVD he said he wanted to get rid of collective bargaining and abolish the minimum wage. He has flip-flopped on every conceivable issue except islam and immigration.

The rest of his party does seem to genuinely care about health care (some catagories of patients excluded), animal welfare (commendable, but odd) and whatever. This is just speculation of course, but the only reasons I can think of at this point why he blew up his cooperation with the VVD and CDA are - A) he feared the voters would punish him for compromising or B) he feared that some of his party members might defect for making those same compromises.
And option A seems the least credible of the two, considering that he'll never be able to form a working coaltion with anyone again - so the extra seats he might win are cold comfort.

Cutting bureaucratic tape is something that every party supports, in theory. The PVV is however is implying that they're going to fire civil servants in droves and reap mountains of gold in the process, and that is nothing more than a pipe dream. Same with development aid - even if you get rid of it entirely it will only be a couple of "drops on a hot plate" as far as our economic problems are concerned. The real budget cuts are to be found on those issues which the PVV won't touch because they're nothing but a bunch of populists.