Today Inside is threatening to say goodbye to Wierd Duk as table guest, now that the opinion maker wants to set up his own conservative movement. Johan Derksen states this in the programme.
Duk (65) will retire next year, but from then on he wants to focus on his own conservative movement, including a media platform and accompanying talk show. On that idea of the journalist The Telegraph the program does not respond too enthusiastically.
“Yes, I find it problematic,” Derksen begins. “Wierd is the son of a pastor and of course something about your upbringing always remains. I think it’s a strange idea. You can’t object to a conservative movement if it is healthy conservatism. But I do resent the fact that he gives it a truly Christian twist.”
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The mustachioed analyst continues: “Wierd’s message has a large target group in the Netherlands. It is not an indecent idea of his, but I think it is a dangerous idea. If he set up that organization, you have to wonder whether someone who fights for it is still credible here at a talk show table.”
Wilfred Genee also does not seem enthusiastic about Duk continuing to join Today Inside in that case: “That makes it complicated, yes. All those people who just start making moves… What do they all want, those guys?”
