“Wide boy” is British slang for a man who is a flashy dresser and makes a living through disreputable dealings.
This is another example of why I have called the Daily Mail the worst publication in the Western world. The Guardian and the Washington Post and the New York Times and CNN and the like are increasingly open and obvious in their role as propaganda outlets for globalist internationalism and centers for the defamation of all who oppose their agenda, but the Daily Mail is something even worse. Its coverage of jihad terror attacks is often excellent, far surpassing that of most other outlets. But it routinely traffics in the basest smears against anyone who proposes to do something effective about the jihad terror threat. Here it is Geert Wilders’ turn.
You would think they would even stop and ask himself why the man lives under constant threat of assassination by Leftists or jihadists. No such luck. Instead, the Daily Mail implicitly validates the threats against him by smearing him as an unscrupulous con man.
One wonders if anyone in Britain will get a clue before the whole thing falls in on their heads.
“Rabble rouser who could be the next nail in EU’s coffin: Geert Wilders is the virulently anti-Islam,” by Sue Reid, Daily Mail, February 4, 2017:
Wearing spivvy shoes, a tight blue suit and a crooked smile, the wide boy of European politics strides into a room in the Dutch parliament building, flanked by armed security men.
He holds up a fat paperback entitled Anger, full of stories of ordinary folk worried about the kind of issues that swept Donald Trump to power in America.
‘Our people have been betrayed by politicians and want a new Patriotic Spring,’ he tells his audience, who nod enthusiastically.
This is Geert Wilders, the 53-year-old of part-Indonesian heritage with peroxide blond hair, who is turning Dutch thinking on its head. He is described by some as a rabid racist and has been convicted for inciting discrimination.
Once temporarily banned from Britain as ‘persona non grata’ by the Labour government, he lives under threat of assassination for his fiercely anti-immigration stance, and only this week tried (unsuccessfully) to plaster ‘Stop Islam’ adverts over Holland’s trams.
He is in such danger from Left-wing activists and Islamic militants that he often wears a bullet-proof vest and is guarded at a safe house round the clock.
He can only visit his wife Krisztina, a former Yugoslav diplomat, once a week at the family’s secret address because of security concerns. Nobody, he says with truth, would want his sort of life.
Yet next month there are national elections in the Netherlands — and Wilders’s Freedom Party is ahead in the polls and expected to win at least 20 per cent of the vote. It could be even higher.
One paunchy man listening on Thursday at the book launch admitted: ‘At first we dared not think like him or talk like him. Now many of us in Holland do both.’…
“Paunchy.” When did you last see the establishment propaganda media describe a jihad terrorist or Left-fascist or any of their supporters with the slightest derogatory term?