In the Vatican they can meet quickly and efficiently – now that we are still

I must honestly say that I was somewhat skeptical in advance. 133 (old) men who have to name their new successor together. I had a hard head in it. But look. Hardly two days of meetings meet and there is already white smoke. If I see that messing around in the Netherlands, where no file has been resolved in more than 14 years – nitrogen crisis, asylum crisis, allowance scandal, home crisis, Gordon, the Groningen compensation scandal, William II in or from the Eredivisie – then those grinding in the Vatican do a lot better. I look at that with great admiration.

We should also try that here in The Hague. Then we put them all in a loft with a nice ceiling, and you should pay attention to how quickly the white smoke will circled here.

In the past, during the conclave Even the toilets did not empty until there was a decision, and the box with the body of the previous Pope was pontifically next to the meeting table, I read in my own newspaper – even better!

Instead of a box with a body, we do a portrait of Pieter Omtzigt on the wall, and then we remove the toilet paper, the cell phones and the smints. I bet all our problems will be solved within a week.

Sure, there was sometimes a conclave less flexible in the past. For example, the longest three years – a kind of company outing lasted From Hell – Sometimes there were fights and sometimes people died.

But even that still has something? That you have to fight, or even more beautiful: that you will stérft during decision -making. I miss that piece of commitment a bit with the current cabinet.

I also like that only men can decide in the Vatican. That saves a few weeks of fiddling about childcare and Work-Life Balance. And then also men between 70 and 80 years old, so that you are not tied to it for too long if the decisions and the appointments are disappointing. Wouldn’t it be much better anyway if here in the Netherlands one old (white) man would be in charge? Just one old white man who arranges everything. Also saves a lot of other old white men.

But the biggest advantage of the Vatican model is: being able to make all those decisions without consultation evenings, without dialogue tables and without the Council of State that has to say something about the disruption of the mating behavior of the blue and white striped manure beetle. That there is not first a policy memorandum or notes who should be given a position elsewhere, do not have to be formulated, no cardinals who will already explain their position in talk shows, and no motions and amendments. And nothing remote work in Bali, but just all live in the office. That would also be a relief here?

That puppet show too – beautiful. The smoke, the robes, the choral singing – everyone looks breathlessly at that chimney, and nobody knows what is happening. In the Netherlands we are still trying to explain how a nitrogen card works or how to enter your new pension – stop that.

Just organize an annual procession for the housing market or the new pension system. Let Mona Keijzer and Dick shove through a street with a model of a Vinex district, a piggy bank and a row of moody men behind it, and the people will believe that something will happen.

Inumerating. The Netherlands keeps messing around with coalitions, opposition, and group discipline. And in the meantime, the Vatican proves that with one old man and a two thousand years old story you can manage a million -year organization with global influence. Without opposition, without saying sorry for abuse scandals, without debate, and no bullshit about inclusion. And if things really go wrong? Just burn incense and everything smells nice and fresh again.

Actually the only downside I have: the company clothing. Maybe it will be time for a different outfit? But that is not in a hurry. Also fine if it is about two, three thousand years by accident, once, God is a woman, that new pope. Just in pants, instead of such a dress?

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