A week or two ago I put up a post about how recent success by the Dutch Labour Party in local elections in Rotterdam (the city that gave birth to Pim Fortuyn’s movement) owed a great deal to the way that Muslim voters had rallied behind Labour. This was in some ways, I thought, good news. It might signal a greater willingness of a poorly integrated community to work within Dutch political structures, but quite what that might mean to those structures was a different question altogether.

Now the Brussels Journal picks up comments from the Labour leader Wouter Bos (routinely described as telegenic, he’s currently favored to emerge as prime minister after the next election) who is, apparently, worried what having so many immigrant councilors might mean for his party.

I think ‘change’ is the appropriate understatement.