Dutch far right rides wave of anger over immigration
David Charter
Tuesday January 13 2015, 12.01am, The Times
Support for the anti-Islamic Freedom party of the Dutchman Geert Wilders has jumped to its highest level in more than a year — an indication of how Europe's populists are benefiting politically from the Paris attacks.
Mr Wilders, who faces criminal charges over his inflammatory rhetoric against Moroccan immigrants, said that the west was now "at war" with Islam.
If elections were held today, his party would be the largest in the Netherlands, with 31 of the 150 seats in parliament — twice as many as it won in the 2012 elections, according to a poll after the killings in France. The governing Liberal and Labour parties would have 28 seats between them, down from 79.
The Freedom party was already polling strongly before the