Dutch Farmers’ Protest Party Opposing Green Policies Celebrates Shock Election Win
A farmers’ protest party angered by new green laws triumphed in shock Dutch election results, prompting its leader to ask: “People, what the f— happened?” The Telegraph has more.
Caroline van der Plas’s Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB) is projected to become the equal largest party in the senate, taking 15 seats from none before the vote.
The Left-wing GroenLinks/PvdA is also expected to win 15 seats, in the wake of months of turbulent farmer protests against Government plans to cut nitrogen emissions.
Mark Rutte, the centre-Right Dutch prime minister, insisted his coalition Government would survive, after its four member parties lost eight of their combined 32 seats in the 75-seat senate
“This is not the result we wanted,” he said, after projections showed his VVD party was on course to win 10 seats.
Mr. Rutte’s Government plans to meet EU climate targets by reducing livestock and through compulsory farm buyouts to reduce nitrogen emitted by manure and fertilisers.
The protests have drawn global attention, and garnered the support of the former U.S. president Donald Trump, as well as conspiracy theorists who claim the farmers are victims of a ‘globalist’ plot to steal their land.
The BBB’s victory means the farmers can form alliances with other parties in the senate and block green legislation, in a country that is the world’s second-largest agricultural exporter after the U.S.
Governments of the West take note – this is the consequence of pursuing ruinous green and Net Zero policies at the ballot box.
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Finally, some good news!
“conspiracy theorists (who) claim the farmers are victims of a ‘globalist’ plot to steal their land.”
Hold on right there Torygraph – this is not conspiracy theory, this is fact and the ‘globalist’ plot to steal farmers land is just that – an intention, all out in the open to compulsorily purchase farmers land and evict the people.
Perhaps if the Torygraph did a proper job and asked the Dutch government how Europe and the rest of the world would feed itself after the loss of 11,000 of the most productive farms in the world it might go some way on the road to repairing the nonsense it has been spouting these last few years.
Well done you Dutchmen – and women. Do I need to add that? 😀
If true, this does sound like good news. However, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who has been closely involved in the campaign, posted a rather less jubilant view late yesterday. So let’s wait and see. https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1636131956357201921
With perfect timing, Dr. Jordan Peterson has just interviewed Vlaardingerbroek and journalist Michael Yon. Don’t watch if you’re happy with the Telegraph’s usual shallow reporting. But worth listening to if you really want to know what’s going on behind the scenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHQN54XCL0
An almighty “BRAVA”👏👏👏
Christ, I thought at first that it read “BBC” wins election.
Only a matter of time though I suppose, because their only reason to exist now is to tell people what to think.
Their function as a news outlet is long gone.
Isn’t it Tim Davie. You would have been at home in 1920’s Germany would you not.
Protests work. A lesson to us all.
Time for the Dutch Government to get some advice from US Democrats on ensuring election results. “Surprise” is a word politicians in office never want to hear.
😀 😀 😀 Love it.
God bless the Orange..!
This is a great example of how the metropolitan control of political institutions suppresses democratic choice. The public opinion about farming measures was always there. It was just ignored and suppressed by complacent, arrogant, politicians.
“suppressed by complacent, arrogant, politicians…and media.
Two cheeks of the same backside.
Most excellent news. Well done BBB.
15 seats in the Senate, Greens 15 seats and the Rutte cabal 24 seats so 15 vs. 39. Good news for sure but is it enough to shake the narrative? The thing these last 3 years have taught me is always be cynical and suspect every piece of news that appears on the BBC…and this does, albeit with a search needed
i’m watching to see how this farmer party is subverted. Something will be tried for sure.
I can’t believe it’s not Rutte. Well done Netherlands BBB (B*gger Big Brother) folk.
Saw this in the morning but didn’t share it here. I’m seeing lots of Telegram posts from Dutchies saying she’s ”controlled opposition” and a ”Trojan horse”. As I have major trust issues with all politicians now, especially with the present predicament and Agenda 2030 round the corner, I think they’re all puppets who’s loyalties do not lie with the voters, until proven otherwise. But time will tell if this BBB party are friend or foe to the farmers. Here is one such post, but I haven’t verified the claims, so it could be something or it could be nothing; ”Hollow victory. Trojan horse. She, Caroline van de Plas, of the ominously named BBB party is sponsored and financed by a marketing company called ‘Remarkable’, who works for Bayer & Monsanto. BBB has received up to 174,000 Euros from this company. Furthermore 3 persons working for Remarkable are also treasurers for the BBB party. All this is well documented. BBB was also given a massive amount of airtime by the state media channels to promote her as a champion of the farmers’ plight. This airtime was also a massive red flag. Struggling Dutch farmers had the wool pulled over their eyes… Read more »
Troubling, most likely verifiable, the political system we once called democracy is, I suspect, broken beyond repair. I’d be overjoyed if this was the real deal but meh, like you Mogwai, I also have major trust issues
Here’s the latest on the news today. I do hope they’ll prove themselves to be for the farmers and we have a legit cause to celebrate in due course.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/farmers-party-bbb-steamrollers-provincial-elections-could-win-17-senate-seats/
Anything is possible, I have no idea whether or not Van der Plas (BBB MP in parliament) is for real or not. My own instincts (so pure guesswork here, not any particular factual insight) is that Van der Plas is for real and BBB is for real. The vote itself is most definitely a message – but so what? Rutte knows what people think, he’s known for years and he doesn’t care – he only cares about his political career. Until he’s gone, there won’t be much change of any kind. For there really to be a change, BBB has to become the biggest party in the general election to the Second Chamber in 2 years time. What I’m more concerned about is that Van der Plas is not a seasoned politician, nor are those people who will be sitting in the First Chamber – Rutte is and Demons666 has a lot of EU backing. Rutte formed a cabinet with the Dutch Labour Party years back – the Dutch Labour Party paid big time for that mistake. He also seems to be getting the better of D66 in this cabinet. At one point he formed a minority coalition with Wilders’… Read more »
Thank you. You’re more knowledgeable about Dutch politics than me. 🙂 Yes you may well be right re BBB, but there’s still a fair few commenters saying van der Plas voted in favour of the forced buyouts of the farmers. I’ve no idea if this is the case and it could all be white noise/opposition type trolling going on. We shall see and I give them the benefit of the doubt.
‘van der Plas voted in favour of the forced buyouts of the farmers’, if this is true then its a clear signal and not one that is welcome but JaneDoesNL’s comments are more uplifting. It would be nice to verify that bit of info re voting record as its such a significant factor
OK I hope I’ve understood this correctly but here we have the motion of *not* forcibly buying out the farmers, and it looks like BBB voted *against*, thereby being in favour of it.
https://twitter.com/wim_ruiter/status/1630508902042198016
..and there you have it. Translated the motion was as follows (I think) – Vision for the future of the agricultural sector;
Motion; Motion by Members Van Haga and Eppink on farmers not forced buy-out – https://www.parlementairemonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvij5epmj1ey0/vlxrbx1unjzh
The BBB voted against the motion….so voted for forced buy-outs :-/
Hopefully we have read that wrong Mogwai. Perhaps JaneDoeNL can help shed light on this
Well one way to know we’ve understood it correctly is we can see the ‘far-right’ FvD party are in the minority in voting in favour of not forcibly buying out the farmers, which is entirely predictable. So this doesn’t look like a cause for celebration after all does it? Perhaps the claim of ”Trojan horse” holds some merit now… 🙁
I remember reading something about this in some twatter feed, but can’t find what I read at the time. I do remember that BBB had denied that they voted against.
I did find this, but for some reason I can’t copy the link, so have had to type it in:
https://twitter.com/WybrenvanHaga/status/1633398868145741827
Van Haga is the MP who tabled the motion, in the scoreboard in his tweet, BBB did vote for the motion against forced buy-outs of the farmers. I think it was claimed that BBB’s vote was originally ‘incorrectly’ processed (yeah, right).
All the ‘for’ and ‘against’ looks confusing: Van Haga’s motion was to get parliament to agree that forced buy-outs would NOT be an option. So to vote in favour of the motion was to vote against forced buy-outs – BBB voted in favour of the motion according to Van Haga’s tweet.
Ah yes, that’s right. False alarm. Here she explains..
https://twitter.com/lientje1967/status/1625254252753915905?cxt=HHwWgsC40biIiI4tAAAA
If there was another vote today and the parties vote the same way would they now have the numbers to block forced buyouts?
At least, on any interpretation, it is good that some group is giving that Mega R soul Rutte some stress.
BBB also oppose GangGreen who seem to have now decided to try to ban Nitrogen. Of course this can’t be real Nitrogen, which comprises 79% of the atmosphere.
Or it could be.
GangGreen has no discernable grasp of any normal science and has a proud history of trying to demonise Chemical Elements, starting with Chlorine before doubling down on ‘Carbon’ – by which they usually mean Carbon Dioxide (0.04% of the atmosphere, of which they mean the 3% of the 0.04% which is attributable to mankind’s puny efforts).
Rutte has also been for years the arch defender of the rights of excitable proponents of the Religion of Peace to settle in Holland and to go about their excitable pastimes, not least the ‘Loverboys’.
Much more comforting which brings us back to the possibilities mentioned above by JaneDoeNl re this being an attempt to smear the BBB perhaps orchestrated by the Dutch version of the 77th…
Thanks very much Mogs. I suppose we will find out within a few months if this party is anything like it pretends to be.
If this woman has done the dirty matters could become nasty.
Fantastic news.
Rutte will go the way of Ardern in NZ. You will never subdue the people.
Excellent news. What a shame there wasn’t a larger turnout and the Farmers’ Party got at least one extra seat to become the largest party in the Dutch Parliament.
Schwab must be spitting tacks that his little puppet Rutte has been kicked in the goolies by the Farmers Party.
This has really brightened my day.
“..conspiracy theorists who claim the farmers are victims of a ‘globalist’ plot to steal their land.
Well that’s a fact.
A couple of weeks ago that said “15 minute city” were a conspiracy theory even thought it’s happening in Oxford, Canterbury, bath and many other place.
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