Stepping back from power

It’s rare to find a politician that knows her limits and doesn’t want a job for which she isn’t qualified.

And thus the BBB’s Caroline Van der Plas:

The party, currently riding high in the polls, is in talks with someone who has “international experience” and, Van der Plas said, she hopes to be able to present the party’s prime ministerial candidate before Sunday when she goes on holiday.

“If he or she says yes, then it is an easy decision for me,” she told the paper. “Then I won’t be prime minister.” Instead, she said, she would prefer to stay in parliament and lead the parliamentary party.

The job of prime minister would be an “enormous attack” on her private life, the BBB’s sole MP said. In addition, she said, she was not looking forward to all the travel involved and meeting foreign leaders.

“There is nothing wrong with my English, but I don’t want to put on decent clothes and fly all over the world. I would have to wear heels and I can’t walk in them,” she said. In addition, the BBB founder said she is afraid of flying.

Van der Plas also said she enjoys working as an MP. “And I think I have not been an MP for long enough to be a prime minister,” she said.

I’m not a BBB supporter because of some key ideological differences, but I can still respect someone with different views than my own.