He began working for a health insurance company before shifting into politics as a speechwriter for a liberal party.
Some say his experience of being mugged as a city councillor in Utrecht in the late 1990s may have made him more Right-wing.
I thought this liberal mugged by reality thing was a joke, not, umm, reality…
According to Wikipedia, the VVD (which he originally joined) is more of an economically liberal party:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Party_for_Freedom_and_Democracy
I’ve been mugged, and before I considered myself liberal and founded the SLP.
Incidentally Timmy, the UKIP guy defending Wilders on Sky News was a total bloody disaster. Lord Pearson. I assumed he would know how to make his point succinctly in an interview.
But Sky News also seemed far from impartial.