"Yes," Martijn was insisting to the shocked TV journalist, "our stance on this has in fact changed. We are in the middle of redrafting the party platform." He paused, took a deep breath, and showed emotion that even the interviewer knew better than to interrupt. "I lost a friend at Scheveningen the other day," he announced. "At his funeral, his mother came up to me and implored me to step back and re-examine my party’s position on the klimaat nood ."