[einpoklum]

Well, I lean Anarchist and am not a Dutch citizen, but while living in the Netherlands for a couple of years as a post-doc, I was also disheartened to see the Dutch right-wing that dominant in national politics. Do you believe that, say, a GroenLinks-led coalition would have handled this much better?

[rocqua]

I could imagine GroenLinks also not being up to the task of getting the bureaucracy to 'do the right thing'. But they would be honest about their own failure and keep trying, perhaps taking drastic measures.

Their honesty about their failure might mean they lose power too soon for a culture shift in the bureaucracy to actually occur.