Talk:Jan Peter Balkenende
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Jan Peter Balkenende
This guy looks like Dwight Shrute from The Office. --
oh man. this guy does look like the grown-up version of harry potter. --Leigh Honeywell (or a young Garrison Keillor?)
- Grown-up? --Bigsmoke 11:06, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Imagine the dutch reactions when we realised he was going to be our leader ^.^ Vincit 17:51, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- They were the best reactions ever. Many people in the US and the UK don't seem to understand that he is a hard working christian man, just like 75 % of the population in the US and the UK. No those people only look for good-looking men (might be gay but don't talk bout that). It's better for Holland to have a christian man in charge than someone like Wouter Bos, member of the socialist party (someone who opposed the Iraq war and all that Anit-American stuff). So you have again been fooled by these left wing idiots, who scream for help because their stupid social security's are cut. Wiki213ip 17:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- Wouter Bos isn't a member of the socialist party, he's a member of the Labour party, like Tony Blair in the UK. Jacoplane 11:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
- Why is he a member of a labour party when he is in favour of social security plans like France. For the record France has an unemploymentrate of nearly 11% and a youth unemploymentrate of 23%! So why again is he a member of a labour party when he kind a opposse more work instead of improving it. It seems that the law student needs an economic lesson huh? Wiki213ip 10:15, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not going to comment except to ask you to take a look at Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks. Jacoplane 15:04, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
- Wiki213ip needs to learn something about this world before he/she starts talking more nonsense. For the record, Balkenende is the worst PM the Netherlands has had since Colijn in the 1930s. His cabinet is obsessed with short-term thinking, xenophobia and elitism, and will go down in history for its terrible governing, like Bush and Blair, the warmongers who pose a greater threat to this world than all terrorists and other fundamentalists put together. 62.238.92.181 14:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Please, wikipedia is not a political platform. Discuss your inconvenience somewhere else. SietskeEN 10:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with SietskeEn, wikipedia is not a political platform. And I'm also thinking that it is very sad to make a comparison between Harry Potter and Balkenende. It's very childish and it shows a intellectual deficiency, it looks like people don't have any real arguments anymore and the only way to blackmail someone is a personal attack. 4:11, 4 juni 2006 (UTC)
- Please, wikipedia is not a political platform. Discuss your inconvenience somewhere else. SietskeEN 10:09, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Wiki213ip needs to learn something about this world before he/she starts talking more nonsense. For the record, Balkenende is the worst PM the Netherlands has had since Colijn in the 1930s. His cabinet is obsessed with short-term thinking, xenophobia and elitism, and will go down in history for its terrible governing, like Bush and Blair, the warmongers who pose a greater threat to this world than all terrorists and other fundamentalists put together. 62.238.92.181 14:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not going to comment except to ask you to take a look at Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks. Jacoplane 15:04, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
- Why is he a member of a labour party when he is in favour of social security plans like France. For the record France has an unemploymentrate of nearly 11% and a youth unemploymentrate of 23%! So why again is he a member of a labour party when he kind a opposse more work instead of improving it. It seems that the law student needs an economic lesson huh? Wiki213ip 10:15, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
- Wouter Bos isn't a member of the socialist party, he's a member of the Labour party, like Tony Blair in the UK. Jacoplane 11:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
- They were the best reactions ever. Many people in the US and the UK don't seem to understand that he is a hard working christian man, just like 75 % of the population in the US and the UK. No those people only look for good-looking men (might be gay but don't talk bout that). It's better for Holland to have a christian man in charge than someone like Wouter Bos, member of the socialist party (someone who opposed the Iraq war and all that Anit-American stuff). So you have again been fooled by these left wing idiots, who scream for help because their stupid social security's are cut. Wiki213ip 17:12, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- Imagine the dutch reactions when we realised he was going to be our leader ^.^ Vincit 17:51, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Party names in NL
Please, please, everyone get over the funny party names already. They largely stem from a different era, and it's unfair to judge the parties by how close their platform is to the name they inherited from previous generations. Besides, the whole discussion is a little off topic, isn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.84.239.37 (talk • contribs)
[edit] Peter
Does he actually use the written middle name "Peter" in Dutch, as it seems? The article says his legal name is Pieter, which is what I would have expected; would anyone happen to know why he prefers the English form to the Dutch one? Just curious. --Saforrest 19:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- The middle name 'Peter' is not specifically English. Peter is a name very common in the Netherlands. Peter R. de Vries for instance is a famous dutch crime reporter and wannabe politician. I'm not sure why he prefers an other version than his own name, but is very common for dutch people to have another roepnaam (name people are called, not very easily translated) than their legal name. Marijke Vos, the green politician, is legally called Maria Bernadina Vos. I don't know exacty whether or why JP decided to change his name. Maybe his parents called him this Jan Peter. Or he changed his roepnaam when he entered politics, because 'Jan Pieter' sounds worse than 'Jan Pieter'. I hope this explains. C mon 22:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Saforrest I want to add that it is a bit egocentric to think that because something is a normal name in your language that it can't be that in an other language... 212.64.56.124 (talk) 14:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Resignation
"Mr. Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende listen (help·info) (born 7 May 1956) served as Prime Minister of The Netherlands from 22 July 2002 to his resignation on June 30, 2006."
Today is June 29, 2006. Can Wikipedia see into the future?
- reworded. Baszoetekouw 20:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Now, shouldn't it be updated? He's a prime-minister again
[edit] death?
I don't believe he is deceased, is the intro. vandalism?
== vandalism - 'balls' instead of law ==
yeah. this page is vandalised by some haxxor. my first reading said he studied 'balls and history', the second 'law and history'.
how do we flag this up or lock it down?
--TresRoque 08:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- The article is linked on the main page today. The vandalism will slow down when that link is gone. So far the vandalism is not too bad to handle. Garion96 (talk) 14:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
