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Reset This! Dutch Elections See Tractor Protest Party Trounce Globalist Govt and EU Green Agenda​

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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - MARCH 18: Caroline Van Der Plas of BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) seen at the Tweede Kamer the day after the 2021 Dutch General Election on March 18, 2021 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Jeroen Meuwsen/BSR Agency/Getty Images)
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Kurt Zindulka16 Mar 202388

4:57


The upstart populist pro-farmer party FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) shook the foundations of politics in the Netherlands overnight, securing a significant victory in Wednesday’s provincial elections on the back of growing resentment against the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his plans to introduce Great Reset-style environmental policies.

“People, what the **** happened?” exclaimed the frank-talking, half-Irish leader of the BBB, Caroline van der Plas in a victory speech on Wednesday evening as her party, which was formed just three years ago, saw the most gains of any party in the elections that will determine the makeup of the Dutch senate.

The BoerBurgerBeweging (FarmerCitizenMovement) dominated voting in rural areas of the country largely as a result of anger towards the government’s plans to impose EU-driven regulations on farming, particularly the use of nitrogen fertilisers, which many farmers have warned will put them out of business.

At the time of this reporting, BBB is expected to pick up an astonishing 16 seats in the 75-seat Senate, after previously holding zero. With 94 per cent of the vote counted, turnout is projected to have been around 57.5 per cent, the highest since the 1980s.

BBB leader Caroline van der Plas (C) reacts to results during an election evening event after voting in Netherlands' Provincial Council elections in Bathmen on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
BBB leader Caroline van der Plas (C) reacts to results during an election evening event after voting in Netherlands’ Provincial Council elections in Bathmen on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Commenting on the shock results, the chairman of the Agriculture and Horticultural Organization Netherlands (LTO), Sjaak van der Tak said that it was “an important profit for our farmers and the vital countryside,” adding: “Voters gave the cabinet and therefore the coalition a huge blow and that requires a real change of course with finding support for the big plans, such as nitrogen.”

Meanwhile, the leader of the CDA party — a member of the current governing coalition, Wopke Hoekstra said: “The Hague, including us, has insufficiently understood what is going on in our country. There’s a huge gap, we all have to care.”

The driving factor for the groundswell of support for the pro-farming party was opposition to the government’s plans to implement mandated cuts on the use of nitrogen fertilisers by as much as 70 per cent in some areas of the country by the end of the decade, with 92 per cent of BBB voters citing the policy as a motivating factor for their vote.

The elections, which also will determine the makeup of the provincial governments, could see the BBB take power in the very regions that the government is trying to impose its green agenda, potentially spelling more problems for the globalist governing coalition, which saw its total number of seats fall from 32 to 24. This puts the government’s ability to pass legislation in jeopardy, given that 38 votes are required in the senate to pass bills.

Polls found that over three-quarters of BBB voters believe that provincial governments should have the power to enact distinct policies from the national government, compared to 58 per cent among all voters.

The stunning loss for Rutte, who is the country’s longest-serving prime minister, may even throw his ability to retain power into doubt, with questions already being raised in Dutch media if he will step down and the possibility of Caroline van der Plas becoming the next prime minister. Prime Minister Rutte only has the confidence of less than a quarter has the confidence of less than a quarter of BBB voters, while enjoying just over a third of the confidence of the voting public as a whole.

Van der Plas, herself, questioned Rutte’s continued rule, asking: “How can you continue to govern if you have so little support?” While she said that she is not currently planning on making a move to become the next Dutch PM, she said she will think about it, coyly stating: “Yes, what if?”

Despite the trouncing in last night’s elections, the government’s minister for nature and nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal signaled on Thursday morning that the controversial nitrogen policy will continue to be on the agenda because the government believes it is mandated to push it through under EU law.

In response, the BBB leader Van der Plas said that her comments were “complete bullshit” and that “everything can change, if you want.”

The imposition of the anti-farmer green agenda by the EU has also recently sparked political chaos in Belgium, the seat of power for the bloc, with the Flemish coalition government facing a potential breakdown over similar attempts to restrict nitrogen fertilisers in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.

Belgium also saw mass tractor protests last month in a similar vein to the farmer protest movement that sprung up last summer in The Netherlands, which saw farmers enacting blockades of key infrastructure as well as blocking highways with burning bales of hay and piles of tyres to demonstrate their frustration over the government’s attack on their industry and way of life.
 
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EXCLUSIVE: EU Becoming ‘EUSSR’ by Waging Green Agenda War on Farmers, MEP Says​

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Flemish farmers take their tractors to the city center of Brussels, to protest against proposed new rules to reduce nitrogen emissions, on Friday 03 March 2023. The Flemish Government is debating measures to reduce the emissions of the industry and the agricultural sector. BELGA PHOTO JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE (Photo by …
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Peter Caddle9 Mar 2023147

3:33


The European Union’s green agenda-inspired war against farmers is turning the bloc into the “EUSSR”, an MEP has warned.
Tom Vandendriessche, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, has warned that the EU is rapidly turning into the “EUSSR” as a result of its climate war against the bloc’s farmers, in reference to the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Sparked by concerns over nitrogen pollution, the EU is now forcing both regional and national authorities to cut back on the gas, with farmers forced to reduce their use of essential fertilisers and farms in some cases even forcibly closed down should they be deemed too great a polluter.
These restrictions have recently caused political and social chaos in Flanders — Belgium is roughly split between this Dutch-speaking region and the French-speaking region of Wallonia — with the Flemish coalition government now split over implementing green measures which would endanger the livelihoods of the territory’s farmers.
Speaking to Breitbart Europe, Vandendriessche denounced the EU measures at the heart of the nitrogen restrictions as a “power grab” by those in Brussels, saying that the very survival of farmers in both Flanders and the Netherlands is now being threatened.
“They allegedly emit too much nitrogen,” he explained. “Farms that have existed for generations now have to close down.”
The Vlaams Belang MEP went on to compare the bloc to the now-defunct Soviet Union, noting that communist dictatorships have a long history of attacking their own agricultural sector.
“Not coincidentally, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot all waged war against farmers, their independence and self-determination,” he said.
“Totalitarian regimes want to subjugate citizens. That is why they take away their freedoms, take away their arms to defend themselves, and take away their food to enslave citizens.”
“The European Union pursues extremist climate policies that are bad for ordinary people,” he added.
“Meat they want to replace with insects. Cars they want to ban. Freedom surveilled by QR codes. This EU is increasingly becoming an EUSSR.”

Vandendriessche is not the first person within the bloc to criticise the EU’s attack on farmers, with many other politicians and pundits ringing alarm bells over the last 12 months regarding the effects of the Union’s green policy measures.
Although protests have now spread to Flanders regarding the impact of the policies, the most vigorous anti-green agenda movement in the bloc has traditionally been in the Netherlands, with farmers in the country militantly resisting attempts by their national government to implement the EU-mandated reforms.
Such resistance is understandable considering the stakes, with the government looking to forcibly shut down up to 3,000 farms in the country in the hopes of meeting environmental quotas set by Brussels.
“We aren’t allowed to continue because we were labelled a ‘peak polluter’,” one farmer allegedly said regarding the measures, claiming they fought the closure order for “three years”.
“Our government destroys lives,” Dutch pundit Eva Vlaardingerbroek explained in relation to the policy, which so far appears likely to continue as the EU measures remain in place.


 


Dutch Farmers: Netherlands a ‘Pilot Country’ for Great Reset Agenda, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Tells Breitbart​

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Farmers protest with tractors lined up along the access road, at the entrance of the circuit the Formula 1 circuit of Zandvoort, on September 3, 2021. - The presence of the farmers is to draw attention to the difficult situation that farmers are currently in due to nitrogen restrictions, according …
Getty Images, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Instagram
Kurt Zindulka16 Jul 2022880

4:38


Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart News that her homeland is being used as a “pilot” for the Great Reset agenda.

In an interview with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Eva Vlaardingerbroek said that countries like Canada and the Netherlands are being used as staging grounds for the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other globalist elites to pursue their radical schemes to transform society.

Much like the trucker convoy protests earlier this year in Canada against vaccine passports and other lockdown restrictions, the Dutch government is currently in a battle with farmers, who have used their tractors to shut down critical infrastructure across the country in protest against alleged plans to seize their land to supposedly conform with European Union regulations on wildlife protection and emissions:

Breitbart · Eva Vlaardingerbroek – July 15, 2022

Vlaardingerbroek said: “Our government is following a climate agenda, the 2030 agenda more broadly speaking, and they are saying that the Netherlands has nitrogen and ammonia emissions are too high and that they are threatening the climate and local nature, and that they need to be cut down

“For some reason, they aren’t coming after the airlines or other industries that actually are contributors to these emissions apart from the Dutch farmers. They are saying that the farmers need to give up 30 per cent of their land by 2030 and for a lot of these farmers that means they will go completely out of business depending on where they are in the country and that land goes to the state, surprise, surprise,” she claimed.

“Our farmers are being expropriated and the state is stealing their land… and oftentimes these are businesses that they have had in their families for centuries on end because the farming industry in the Netherlands is very strong.”

The Dutch political commentator said that the attack on the farming industry could have major economic implications, noting that the Netherlands is the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world.

The country is also the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the fifth-largest dairy exporter globally — industries that will be the chief target of the supposedly climate-focused scheme.

Under the coalition government of liberal globalist prime minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands has committed to reducing the nitrogen emissions produced by livestock by 50 per cent by the year 2030 to fall in line with the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, which requires member-states to protect certain areas designated by Brussels to be in danger ecologically. This means that some areas will be forced to reduce their emissions by as much as 95 per cent, with estimates claiming that 30 per cent of the country’s farmlands could be impacted.

Dutch farmers, who have protested over the past two weeks throughout the country, have argued that other EU nations are not implementing such strict regulations and therefore it is an unfair handicap to place on domestic business.
“These are proud people, very hard-working people and very successful people that are now being robbed of their property,” Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart.

Vlaardingerbroek also said that the reason behind the desire of the Dutch government to seize farmland is inextricably linked to the European migrant crisis, rather than the alleged climate crisis, claiming that the government intends on using the land to construct centres for waves of migrants to live in.

The housing crisis in the Netherlands is not because of the Dutch population growing, but rather because the European Union has implemented an open borders agenda, she argued. This has already started to occur, with the province of Flevoland buying up “nitrogen space” in Noordoostpolder with the intention of setting up an asylum processing centre where farmland used to lie.

The political commentator said that the farmers realise that this is not just coming from the national level, saying that Prime Minister Mark Rutte “is very deeply involved in the World Economic Forum, is a great proponent of all the ideas laid out in the 2030 Agenda and the Great Reset, it’s all related, all these policies are out of those institutions and they are being implemented in our country first, we are sort of the pilot country together with Canada for this agenda.”
Having strict control of the food supply it empowers the government to have “full control” over people’s lives “if they can dictate what and when you can or cannot eat,” Vlaardingerbroek said.
“Wars have been started over less,” she remarked.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Sounds like the Netherlands has managed to organize effective opposition to the EU. They over played their hand and their bluffs been called. What has me surprised is the EU managed to piss off the Dutch.

This is another a major dot the tide has turned. This may not be good news. TPB are hurting and probably pissed at having their agenda held up by the peons. War, financial and societally collapse, chaos could be in their bag of options, maybe their goals?
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Time for the eco-freaks to be force fed a chill pill.

You know what my mother said about most of the hippies? A lot of them grew up when they tried to make a go of it on the communes and found out how hard and real all of that back-to-nature stuff really was. Growing your own food, weaving your own material, etc. Those that maintained those practices weren't really hippies and were already reality grounded.

I'd like to see some of the new "eco" whatevers actually have to live the way they want the rest of us to. I seriously doubt they remain quite so blasé about it all.
 

Deb Mc

Veteran Member
Am wondering that instead of banning nitrogen fertilizers, they find other work-arounds instead.

Ohio and some of the other Great Lakes states have a problem with fertilizer runoff that causes algae blooms, which then produces toxins that damage human livers and kidneys, making the water undrinkable.

Instead of banning fertilizers, they've asked farmers to increase green spaces near creeks and such, as well as create a new kind of ditch - one that has "shoulders". These will catch and hold the initial runoff, which has the nitrogen, preventing it from being flushed into the rivers.

Will it work? I have no idea. But, at least it's another option to try...
 
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packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Time for the eco-freaks to be force fed a chill pill.

You know what my mother said about most of the hippies? A lot of them grew up when they tried to make a go of it on the communes and found out how hard and real all of that back-to-nature stuff really was. Growing your own food, weaving your own material, etc. Those that maintained those practices weren't really hippies and were already reality grounded.

I'd like to see some of the new "eco" whatevers actually have to live the way they want the rest of us to. I seriously doubt they remain quite so blasé about it all.

So long as it remains a cash cow for them they will continue to force this garbage onto the rest of us!

As for the hippies, so true, and I'd add in this is also why there are so few people living off grid, or even homesteading, it's a lot of hard work.
 

Wildweasel

F-4 Phantoms Phorever


Dutch Farmers: Netherlands a ‘Pilot Country’ for Great Reset Agenda, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Tells Breitbart​

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Farmers protest with tractors lined up along the access road, at the entrance of the circuit the Formula 1 circuit of Zandvoort, on September 3, 2021. - The presence of the farmers is to draw attention to the difficult situation that farmers are currently in due to nitrogen restrictions, according …
Getty Images, Eva Vlaardingerbroek Instagram
Kurt Zindulka16 Jul 2022880

4:38


Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart News that her homeland is being used as a “pilot” for the Great Reset agenda.

In an interview with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, Eva Vlaardingerbroek said that countries like Canada and the Netherlands are being used as staging grounds for the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other globalist elites to pursue their radical schemes to transform society.

Much like the trucker convoy protests earlier this year in Canada against vaccine passports and other lockdown restrictions, the Dutch government is currently in a battle with farmers, who have used their tractors to shut down critical infrastructure across the country in protest against alleged plans to seize their land to supposedly conform with European Union regulations on wildlife protection and emissions:

Breitbart · Eva Vlaardingerbroek – July 15, 2022

Vlaardingerbroek said: “Our government is following a climate agenda, the 2030 agenda more broadly speaking, and they are saying that the Netherlands has nitrogen and ammonia emissions are too high and that they are threatening the climate and local nature, and that they need to be cut down

“For some reason, they aren’t coming after the airlines or other industries that actually are contributors to these emissions apart from the Dutch farmers. They are saying that the farmers need to give up 30 per cent of their land by 2030 and for a lot of these farmers that means they will go completely out of business depending on where they are in the country and that land goes to the state, surprise, surprise,” she claimed.

“Our farmers are being expropriated and the state is stealing their land… and oftentimes these are businesses that they have had in their families for centuries on end because the farming industry in the Netherlands is very strong.”

The Dutch political commentator said that the attack on the farming industry could have major economic implications, noting that the Netherlands is the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world.

The country is also the largest exporter of meat in Europe and the fifth-largest dairy exporter globally — industries that will be the chief target of the supposedly climate-focused scheme.

Under the coalition government of liberal globalist prime minister Mark Rutte, the Netherlands has committed to reducing the nitrogen emissions produced by livestock by 50 per cent by the year 2030 to fall in line with the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, which requires member-states to protect certain areas designated by Brussels to be in danger ecologically. This means that some areas will be forced to reduce their emissions by as much as 95 per cent, with estimates claiming that 30 per cent of the country’s farmlands could be impacted.

Dutch farmers, who have protested over the past two weeks throughout the country, have argued that other EU nations are not implementing such strict regulations and therefore it is an unfair handicap to place on domestic business.
“These are proud people, very hard-working people and very successful people that are now being robbed of their property,” Eva Vlaardingerbroek told Breitbart.

Vlaardingerbroek also said that the reason behind the desire of the Dutch government to seize farmland is inextricably linked to the European migrant crisis, rather than the alleged climate crisis, claiming that the government intends on using the land to construct centres for waves of migrants to live in.

The housing crisis in the Netherlands is not because of the Dutch population growing, but rather because the European Union has implemented an open borders agenda, she argued. This has already started to occur, with the province of Flevoland buying up “nitrogen space” in Noordoostpolder with the intention of setting up an asylum processing centre where farmland used to lie.

The political commentator said that the farmers realise that this is not just coming from the national level, saying that Prime Minister Mark Rutte “is very deeply involved in the World Economic Forum, is a great proponent of all the ideas laid out in the 2030 Agenda and the Great Reset, it’s all related, all these policies are out of those institutions and they are being implemented in our country first, we are sort of the pilot country together with Canada for this agenda.”
Having strict control of the food supply it empowers the government to have “full control” over people’s lives “if they can dictate what and when you can or cannot eat,” Vlaardingerbroek said.
“Wars have been started over less,” she remarked.
Time to blow up the dikes and return all that farmland to the sea, rather than giving it to the government to use as resettlement areas.
 

Wildweasel

F-4 Phantoms Phorever
Remember what Canuckistan did to the truckers?


Tick tock……
I think the Dutch farmers and their supporters are far more likely to react violently than the Canadian truckers. The protests up to now have seen violence like the truckers never did. Get things rolling and the Dutch could see things go full blown, including sabotaging the dikes and pumps that keep all the farmland in question return to being sea bottom.
 

anna43

Veteran Member
Something to keep at the forefront of our minds is that so-called president Biden buys in to all this carp and has been issuing executive orders right, left and sideways on this subject. All electric cars by 2025. No gas stoves. Eliminate petroleum products. Glad the Dutch were able to hit pause for their country.:applaud::applaud:
 

Sammy55

Veteran Member
Am wondering that instead of banning nitrogen fertilizers, they find other work-arounds instead.

Ohio and some of the other Great Lakes states have a problem with fertilizer runoff that causes algae blooms, which then produces toxins that damage human livers and kidneys, making the water undeniable.

Instead of banning fertilizers, they've asked farmers to increase green spaces near creeks and such, as well as create a new kind of ditch - one that has "shoulders". These will catch and hold the initial runoff, which has the nitrogen, preventing it from being flushed into the rivers.

Will it work? I have no idea. But, at least it's another option to try...
Another option is to plant cover crops that make/fix nitrogen in the ground. They can plant them at the same time as their regular crops and/or plant them in between the regular crops. Or maybe go to the Biblical system of letting a ground lie fallow at least once every 7 years and plant the cover crops during those years to fix the nitrogen in the ground. This, along with leaving a buffer area along the waterways will go a long way towards helping to keep excess nitrogen out of the water supply.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
This, along with leaving a buffer area along the waterways will go a long way towards helping to keep excess nitrogen out of the water supply.
Nothing wrong with your analysis. Their answer could be just to lower the nitrogen threshold to reflect the change. An other would be to target some other agricultural waste product or ecological effect no matter how minimal.
 

colonel holman

Veteran Member
Watch France, just before the parliament vote on Macrons pension plans today, they decided they'd most likely lose so they cancelled the vote and pushed it through anyway.

Paris is kicking off big time
TPTB in DC are taking notes on this.
The basis for POTUS’s EO’s, with way more to come.
 

Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
I think the Dutch farmers and their supporters are far more likely to react violently than the Canadian truckers.
Maybe, maybe not. I expected a more violent reaction in Norway, UK (especially Scotland) and a few other countries to progressive agendas and policies. I'm still amazed at the restrain and discipline of the US population.
 

Groucho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
A vast majority of Americans will sit by as .gov takes away gas stoves and other household products in the name of global warming/cooling/climate change.
 

jward

passin' thru
It's been a real, rare pleasure to watch the Dutch these past few months- not only to see a population get off their backside and DO something, but because, frankly, I neither thought they had it in them, or, that at this late date in the game, even token wins would be allowed.

I hate when hope battles cynicism (not really!) A lesson in there about not giving up when every rational indication is that you should. give. up.
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Remember what Canuckistan did to the truckers?


Tick tock……
To be sure but to my knowledge that was a populist movement with little real political support, courtesy the multi- party system up there.

It splits everything into tiny slices. A manufestation of vote splitting at it's worst. The outcome is yet another 4-5 years for the Lieberals to tighten their stranglehold on the Nation.

They've got Gib-me-dat bribery down pat!

And, r
elative to the core population, they've encouraged/abetted all manner of immigration/refugee programs of millions of people who magically seem to all vote Lieberal.
 
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Laurane

Canadian Loonie
In Canada, Trudeau wanted to lower the amount of fertilizer to be applied each year......The farmers said No!! in Alberta & Saskatchewan, and our new Premier in Alberta said that federal employees could not enter private land to check the runoff amount of fertilizer in water/sloughs/ponds. The feds have control over seaways, coasts, but private land is provincial and they are overreaching again, taking powers not allowed them.

"Bring it to Court" says our Premier Danielle Smith - no more of this following the feds new regulations and the province taking the feds to Court. Full reversal under our Sovereignty Act.
 

Griz3752

Retired, practising Curmudgeon
In Canada, Trudeau wanted to lower the amount of fertilizer to be applied each year......The farmers said No!! in Alberta & Saskatchewan, and our new Premier in Alberta said that federal employees could not enter private land to check the runoff amount of fertilizer in water/sloughs/ponds. The feds have control over seaways, coasts, but private land is provincial and they are overreaching again, taking powers not allowed them.

"Bring it to Court" says our Premier Danielle Smith - no more of this following the feds new regulations and the province taking the feds to Court. Full reversal under our Sovereignty Act.
The only issue there is The Court in Question is The Supreme Court of Canada - I doubt there's a drop of non-Socialist blood amongst them. Provincial courts are somewhat more balanced. The Chance of TII letting such a case be heard where he and his ilk hadn't been stacking the deck for decades isn't hoigh on the probability sale.
JMOpinion
 

night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
DID I misunderstand Mike Yon about the BBB Party when he talked about them a couple weeks ago? IIRC his comment was the BBB Party was PRO WEFFU*ERS.

I REALLY HOPE I misunderstood.


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Macron is about to see what happens when you pull the pants down on all yer people.
 

NoDandy

Has No Life - Lives on TB


Reset This! Dutch Elections See Tractor Protest Party Trounce Globalist Govt and EU Green Agenda​

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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - MARCH 18: Caroline Van Der Plas of BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB) seen at the Tweede Kamer the day after the 2021 Dutch General Election on March 18, 2021 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Photo by Jeroen Meuwsen/BSR Agency/Getty Images)
Jeroen Meuwsen/BSR Agency/Getty Images
Kurt Zindulka16 Mar 202388

4:57


The upstart populist pro-farmer party FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) shook the foundations of politics in the Netherlands overnight, securing a significant victory in Wednesday’s provincial elections on the back of growing resentment against the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his plans to introduce Great Reset-style environmental policies.

“People, what the **** happened?” exclaimed the frank-talking, half-Irish leader of the BBB, Caroline van der Plas in a victory speech on Wednesday evening as her party, which was formed just three years ago, saw the most gains of any party in the elections that will determine the makeup of the Dutch senate.

The BoerBurgerBeweging (FarmerCitizenMovement) dominated voting in rural areas of the country largely as a result of anger towards the government’s plans to impose EU-driven regulations on farming, particularly the use of nitrogen fertilisers, which many farmers have warned will put them out of business.

At the time of this reporting, BBB is expected to pick up an astonishing 16 seats in the 75-seat Senate, after previously holding zero. With 94 per cent of the vote counted, turnout is projected to have been around 57.5 per cent, the highest since the 1980s.

BBB leader Caroline van der Plas (C) reacts to results during an election evening event after voting in Netherlands' Provincial Council elections in Bathmen on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)' Provincial Council elections in Bathmen on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
BBB leader Caroline van der Plas (C) reacts to results during an election evening event after voting in Netherlands’ Provincial Council elections in Bathmen on March 15, 2023. (Photo by Sem van der Wal / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)

Commenting on the shock results, the chairman of the Agriculture and Horticultural Organization Netherlands (LTO), Sjaak van der Tak said that it was “an important profit for our farmers and the vital countryside,” adding: “Voters gave the cabinet and therefore the coalition a huge blow and that requires a real change of course with finding support for the big plans, such as nitrogen.”

Meanwhile, the leader of the CDA party — a member of the current governing coalition, Wopke Hoekstra said: “The Hague, including us, has insufficiently understood what is going on in our country. There’s a huge gap, we all have to care.”

The driving factor for the groundswell of support for the pro-farming party was opposition to the government’s plans to implement mandated cuts on the use of nitrogen fertilisers by as much as 70 per cent in some areas of the country by the end of the decade, with 92 per cent of BBB voters citing the policy as a motivating factor for their vote.

The elections, which also will determine the makeup of the provincial governments, could see the BBB take power in the very regions that the government is trying to impose its green agenda, potentially spelling more problems for the globalist governing coalition, which saw its total number of seats fall from 32 to 24. This puts the government’s ability to pass legislation in jeopardy, given that 38 votes are required in the senate to pass bills.

Polls found that over three-quarters of BBB voters believe that provincial governments should have the power to enact distinct policies from the national government, compared to 58 per cent among all voters.

The stunning loss for Rutte, who is the country’s longest-serving prime minister, may even throw his ability to retain power into doubt, with questions already being raised in Dutch media if he will step down and the possibility of Caroline van der Plas becoming the next prime minister. Prime Minister Rutte only has the confidence of less than a quarter has the confidence of less than a quarter of BBB voters, while enjoying just over a third of the confidence of the voting public as a whole.

Van der Plas, herself, questioned Rutte’s continued rule, asking: “How can you continue to govern if you have so little support?” While she said that she is not currently planning on making a move to become the next Dutch PM, she said she will think about it, coyly stating: “Yes, what if?”

Despite the trouncing in last night’s elections, the government’s minister for nature and nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal signaled on Thursday morning that the controversial nitrogen policy will continue to be on the agenda because the government believes it is mandated to push it through under EU law.

In response, the BBB leader Van der Plas said that her comments were “complete bullshit” and that “everything can change, if you want.”

The imposition of the anti-farmer green agenda by the EU has also recently sparked political chaos in Belgium, the seat of power for the bloc, with the Flemish coalition government facing a potential breakdown over similar attempts to restrict nitrogen fertilisers in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders.

Belgium also saw mass tractor protests last month in a similar vein to the farmer protest movement that sprung up last summer in The Netherlands, which saw farmers enacting blockades of key infrastructure as well as blocking highways with burning bales of hay and piles of tyres to demonstrate their frustration over the government’s attack on their industry and way of life.
So, how many globalist's did they hang / shoot / behead / burn at the stake ????
 

jward

passin' thru
I'm bemused to see discussion of fertilization on this thread. Like all the other power grabs that hide behind the skirts of a seemingly reasonable issue, there are undoubtedly only a minute # of true believers in this effort. The real issue is the grab for profit, power and influence by those who feel they are endowed with superior rights and seek to herd the rest o' we great unwashed into our proper places- in over crowded inner cities, sharing 640 sf per family of four, maintaining our Social credit scores in order to purchase the food (bugs, don't u forget), medicine and entertainment they deem fitting for we captives.
 
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