Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
All Dutch are terrible at English, they shouldn't even try it as I know I will be ashamed. But the left has the right to be represented and that is what the sp does, better than the pvda. But the pvda holds all media mercilessly and made them bigger then they really ever were to make people vote strategically. It's pretty obvious, the sp never was that big the left has been played

My favorite by the way 'we are a nation of undertakers'

What he meant was 'we zijn ondernemend land'
Rotfl, I knew about that quotation but I never knew that was Joop den Uyl until I googled it today. I also love the term "Dunglish".

Another good one is when our fat crown prince visited some foreign country's capital and remarked that it was a "bubbling city" (which is an expression in Dutch meaning something is dynamic or vivid) or Bolkestein's gaffe about "golden showers".

As for the polls: I agree that they influence elections because it encourages strategic voting, but the VVD benefited immensely from this as well.