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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (12532)5/9/2002 10:42:10 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (3) of 21057
 
I'm tending to agree with you, to some extent. What I can find about his policies other than on immigration appears hard RW by European standards, but not extremely so, even for Holland which is generally very centrist and consensus-driven. It's certainly libertarian and free-market oriented, but not extreme. The only other controversial policy was voucher-based education, but this is a common centre-right theme across the West anyhow.

I think it's the anti-immigrant stance, indelibly associated with the European RWE platform, which has really branded him. That and the happenstance of Le Pen's more conventional extreme RW hitting the headlines only a little earlier, news programmes love a new 'trend' be it baby hunger or the hard RW.
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