Geert Wilders looks more and more certain to be a member of the ruling coalition of the Netherlands after next week's election.

Ed West of the London Telegraph reports, "Geert Wilders may be in government next week," June 3:

Anyone wishing to glance at the future of British politics, were the public to vote for PR, would do well to look across the pond to the Netherlands, where a general election is taking place next Wednesday.

If opinion polls are to believed the next government will be formed by the two major centre-Right parties, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the Christian Democrats.

Like in Britain, the 43-year-old centre-Right leader, Mark Rutte of the classically liberal VVD, needs to make the budget deficit the major priority. Like in Britain, he cannot form an overall majority, even with the Christian Democrats.

So he either tries to form an alliance with Labour, which – like its British namesake – refuses to face up to economic reality, or he can form a government with the most famous blond in Europe. That will certainly shake things up...