Harry Potter's next great adventure - becoming PM of Holland?

[davewitley]

> Lynn:
>  
> As I said in an earlier post, I also don't see the problem, the 
Dutch have been calling him Harry Potter since he took over.  
>  
> That said, the more I think about it, the more I think it has a lot 
to do with the "slap in the face" he received by the Dutch voting to 
reject the EU Constitution.  It was a very public example of some more 
internal problems going on with the government at the moment and the 
Dutch displeasure over it.

Yes, in context, I think it's an apologisable offence.  The insult was 
to say "You (the leader of a democracy) can't make the people do what 
you want".  No democratic leader can afford to be seen to accept a 
remark like that, since it seems to be saying that you disrespect the 
will of the people.  The Harry Potter aspect is just the form it took.

David, wondering what 'rigid brave bourgeois' means