Netherlands Votes NO to the Climate Activist War on Farmers

From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Dutch Police Firing Live Ammo at an Anti-Climate Rule Protestor. Source Twitter, Fair Use, Low Resolution Image to Identify the Subject.

A new political party which represents farmers who are fed up with police shooting at their kids and threatened evictions for daring to work the land has won a “monster” endorsement from Dutch voters.

Trump and Le Pen backed these Dutch farmers – now they’ve sprung an election shock

By Sophie Tanno, CNN
Published 5:12 AM EDT, Sun March 19, 2023

CNN — 

A farmers’ protest party in the Netherlands has caused a shock after winning provincial elections this week just four years after their founding. Could their rise have wider implications?

The Farmer-Citizen Movement or BoerburgerBeweging (BBB) grew out of mass demonstrations against the Dutch government’s environmental policies, protests that saw farmers using their tractors to block public roads. The BBB is now set to become the largest party in the Dutch senate.

The developments have thrown the Dutch government’s ambitious environmental plans into doubt and are being watched closely by the rest of Europe. 

The movement was powered by ordinary farmers but has become an unlikely front in the culture wars. Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen have voiced support, while some in the far right see the movement as embodying their ideas of elites using green policies to trample on the rights of individuals.

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The first exit poll showed the party was due to win 15 of the Senate’s 75 seats with almost 20 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile Rutte’s ruling VVD party dropped from 12 to 10 seats – leaving it without a Senate majority. Results on Thursday showed the BBB party had won the most votes in eight of the country’s 12 provinces. 

…Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/19/europe/netherlands-farmers-protest-party-intl/index.html

I think it is fair to say this election outcome has sent shockwaves through all of Europe and beyond.

The green globalists are not invincible, all it takes to defeat them is people who are willing to stand up and demand fair and decent treatment, and who are willing to vote for politicians who prioritise the safety of families and children, and the preservation of lively hoods, ahead of whatever environmental concerns they hold.