Farmers’ protest party does well in Dutch elections
BBB or BoerBurgerBeweging, as the party is called in Dutch, is a major threat to Prime Minister Mark Rutte and looks set to be in control of more Senate seats than the ruling conservative VVD party.
In the Senate, which has the power to block legislation agreed in the lower house of parliament, the prime minister’s party looks set to drop from 12 seats to 10 – while a first exit poll projected BBB to win 15 of a total of 75 available seats…
“Nobody can ignore us any longer,” BBB leader Caroline van der Plas told the Dutch broadcaster Radio 1.
That’s certainly nothing like a majority, but it’s apparently a very good showing and it will give them more power.
I’ve written previously about the Dutch war on farmers: see this and this, including the links in the latter post.
I believe the pro-Putin party lost 10 of their 12 seats as well.
One of the commenters on a companion piece said that in the larger scheme of government/parliamentary influence, it won’t make a shred of difference.
Maybe, but it’s a start…
…and an acknowledgement that a significant number of people despise the injustice being shown one of The Netherlands’ most important sectors.
Anyone interested in this issue should be following the wonderful Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who is as fine an example of a young European conservative as could possibly be imagined. Fluent in English (as well as French and German), she posts mostly (but not always) in her native Dutch; she has also appeared on Tucker’s show. She is fiercely intelligent (having studied law and philosophy at Utrecht), articulate and rational, as well as knowledgeable, not to mention beautiful and charming, and still only 26!
I would love to see the farmers’ revolts spread across Europe.
I would love to see the farmers’ revolts spread across Europe.
Obvious name for the conflict: the Boer War v2.
they just don’t get it,
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2023/0316/Right-wing-folksy-nationalism-party-wins-in-Dutch-elections
Miguel that might be in the CSM, but it was an AP byline. Pretty much a Democrat propaganda piece.
I don’t follow Dutch politics nearly as closely as I do German, so if I had the detailed vote breakdown before me, I don’t know what I would be able to make of it. But it sounds like a promising start of something salutary in the Netherlands. And I was gratified to see the Fryslan flag flying in the photo from that Sky News article that somebody pointed to in the other thread.
Interesting that the Dutch seem to hold elections on Wednesdays. I would have thought the German practice of election day being on a Sunday would have been standard throughout that region.
If you haven’t watch “Clarkson’s Farm” on Amazon, it’s worth the time. The first season is mostly him being bewildered about farming in general, but Season Two is all about government bureaucracy and the barriers the government puts up against farmers, and which drives many of them out of business.
climate change forced cargo cult politics
Boer, Burger, + Beweging…hm.
Didn’t they tour with Ice-T, in the 1990s? ;D
It’s amazing what can be accomplished when the elections are run honestly.
The Dutch Ruling Class needs to import some American Democrats to learn how to fraud better.
As a formerly Dutch guy (now a happy American), I thank you for covering this. This is an extremely important topic, as the type of governmental lunacy which led to BBB’s ascendancy tends to spread quickly to the rest of the Western world. Canada has been infected by it now too, and the U.S. might be next if we get four more years of Sleepy Joe.
The Dutch are a major net agricultural exporter and their farms have elevated efficiency of production to an art form, supported by a wide network of world-class agricultural research universities. To think that reducing the size of livestock by a third or more by the iron fist of the government will not devastate that entire industry is just insane. And make no mistake: While this policy is loosely driven by EU regulations, it’s actually *national politics*, and in particular the left-liberal D66 party with upper middle-class urban professionals as its base, which is the main force behind it. No country in Europe has applied the EU regs as rigidly as the Netherlands, and no country in Europe would voluntarily put its own food supply at risk based on dictates coming out of Brussels. France and Germany would flip the finger to the eurocrats, and rightfully so. Madness is what it is.
As one of Dutch blood this gives me some joy and hope for the future. Human civilization has relied on its farmers for 7,000 some years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Most humans to ever live have been farmers, and so what the greens and globalists have been doing to them is disgusting. Getting in the tent to change or break the system Is an important first step.
I just hope the party stays true and isn’t suborned by the siren songs of politics.
But it is a good start, and untold millions owe a debt to these people.
Ann in LA – yes, a terrific show. It’s unbelievable the amount of bureaucracy that stands in the way of the farmers.
I believe Clarkson has been cancelled (again), this time due writing that he hates Meghan Markle “on a cellular level” and that Harry is a “glove puppet”, comments deemed misogynist, racist, and ‘beyond the pale’ – but of course.
this time due writing that he hates Meghan Markle “on a cellular level” and that Harry is a “glove puppet”
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As someone suggested, a folie a deux. He was 33 years old when he married that broad. She’s reduced a combat veteran to a blithering devotee of therapy culture. Oh well, there’s South Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCqvJW1kIv8
Art Deco–
Whaddya expect of a guy whose (presumed) father once referred to himself as expecting reincarnation as the then-Mrs. Parker Bowles’ tampon?
“In 1993, the British press published the full transcript of a private conversation between then-Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles in which the two had an intimate and sexual exchange. The conversation was notable for a number of reasons, not least of which because it involved the heir to the throne saying that he would like to ‘live inside [her] trousers’ and joking that he would be reincarnated as a tampon, hence the name of the scandal [Tampongate].”
https://time.com/6226657/crown-charles-camilla-tampongate/