I wish I was making this up. Geert Wilders Party (the PVV) has been stepping out of their usual racist and anti immigrant rhetoric to add further points to their political absurdity platform. Apparently, they’ve realized that they need to expand in order to capture more bigot’s hearts and minds. A week or so ago, Wilders himself barked that the only way forward for The Netherlands is through abandoning the Euro altogether. Apparently, such statement wasn’t bombastic enough (it only garnered like five minutes of air time), because today, one of their Members of Parliament has come with a novel idea: The Netherlands should abandon the metric system and, instead, use medieval units of measure such as the cubit, the imperial bushel and the ell.
Since these units were customary at a time when the Dutch were trading in human beings, I have to wonder what the next step in these involutionary proposals will entail. We are talking Geert Wilders here, so I learned to expect the worst.
Details here, alas, the site is in Dutch but google translate does a decent enough job to get the idea.
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