"Dare to be middle class": Timmermans launches "new left" vision - DutchNews.nl

GroenLinks-PvdA leader pushes for new middle-class focused political movement

Frans Timmermans, leader of the GroenLinks-PvdA joint Tweede Kamer group, calls for the formation of a political movement that is “of and for the middle class.” In a policy paper presented Monday in Utrecht, Timmermans outlines his vision for a “new welfare state,” focused on restoring security for the Dutch middle class, as reported by NOS.

"Dare to be middle class": Timmermans launches "new left" vision - DutchNews.nl

Frans Timmermans has launched his campaign for a new centre-left party that would build a “new welfare state” against global...

PHOTO (ANP) - Frans Timmermans (left)Yes, you may know a lot more about it, so you may be able to make sense of this wordy jumble of words from Frans Timmermans, but we don't get it anymore. "Our movement must dare to be a movement of and for the middle class again." (headline at NOS and Trouw) Okay. What has it been so far? Of the upper class? Or of the disengaged lower class? And what should we do with: "By that I don't mean that we are moving…