Former politician Jan Terlouw, is ‘totally amazed’ that his plea for a better world in talkshow DWDD has much more loosened up. “I don’t know what is happening to me. Great that I young people also got hit.”
“Terlouw for president,” tweets Wim Wildeboer. “I get wet eyes”, writes Diederik. The speech of Jan Terlouw, former D66 politician and the author of winter in wartime, a better world and the distrust in politics, makes a lot of los.
Terlouw gets massive applause, though it sounds there is also criticism. He turns out to be, in any case, the finger on the sore spot to have laid, and for a long time trending topic. We talked Terlouw about his tv performance.
Have you noticed that you are loosing?
“I did what on Twitter read. Facebook, I do not know so well, I don’t. And I’m already the whole day platgebeld. I am totally amazed that there is so much reaction has come. I had absolutely not expected. I have ‘that piece of string from the letterbox” I think the craving hit people at times that you still could rely. And my observation that the Americans Trump voted “because they are the other party also don’t trust” has affected people.”
you Are prompted for the speech or was it your own idea?
“Because of my two new books my publisher an interview with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk arranged. I would first have to come earlier because of my 85th birthday, but had a longonsteking. Yesterday, I was still quite unexpected enjoy. Because today is my birthday, I was allowed to the people of DWDD to speak, as a kind of verjaarsdagscadeau I got airtime.”
How did you have your speech prepared? Did you really get out of your head?
“I talk more often about this kind of topics, but have also thought about it. I have about two weeks, can think about. I felt it was important to my concerns about the mistrust that prevails; towards each other and at politicians. That distrust, I wanted to describe with the recognisable image of the ‘rope letterbox”. That hang there are not more because we do not trust. I did it all out of my head. Without a teleprompter.”
You get hard out into politics; was it in your time so much better?
“politics will get there because of that distrust is indeed hard of along. Also, with men like Jacques Monasch, that their political party leave their seat in the Second Chamber is preserved, the politics, the stamp ‘unreliable’. Citizens trust the political and the political trust of the citizens, not more. If you are from the fraction of step, you hear way to go. In the past it happened too, but when there was at least confusion of spoken. Politicians serve not the public interest, and are not integer. I suppose that politicians blame. Everyone is but just.”
in the Past everything was better….
“Also in my time there was criticism of the government, but there was not so much distrust. In my time, the politics in any case, even moral authority, and were there ideological debates. You should be not agree, there was far less distrust. When there were many more politicians who are aware that they are there for the public good were.”
You asked many questions and did all the observations, but what is the solution?
“Politicians should be aware that they are here for the public good sit. The create trust. Politicians need to have integrity, integrity. Wear out that you are there for the public interest.”
you Have now again a piece of string from the letterbox hang?
“in the Past, not now. It simply cannot be more.”
Has Monasch already called?
“No, I have nothing of politicians heard. The best part, I found that I did yesterday after the broadcast by young people was addressed. I do it especially for them. They are the future.”
Why did you become emotional?
“Because I thought of the youth that is behind me. I have a wonderful life, I wish that all of you have.”
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