Farmers have taken to the streets en masse in several places in Europe. To ensure MPs hadn’t lost touch with the people and public sentiment, Caroline van der Plas told the Dutch House of Representatives why the massive protests were happening.
Caroline van der Plas is the founder and party leader of the Farmer Citizen Movement (Boer Burger Beweging or “BBB”) and a Member of the Dutch Parliament (“MP”).
Yesterday, she posted a video of a speech she made during an agriculture budget debate. “At its core, this is why farmers are protesting – they are being destroyed,” she tweeted.
The following is an article ‘Why are farmers protesting en masse? Van der Plas explains’ published by Nieuw Rechts. We have used an online translator to translate the article from Dutch to English.
Farmers are not only stirring in the Netherlands, in recent weeks farmers have taken to the streets en masse in several places in Europe. But what exactly is the reason?
BBB leader Caroline van der Plas explains the issue to the rest of the House of Representatives. According to her, it is obvious what motivates the farmers.
At its core, farmers are being “destroyed,” according to the BBB politician during the budget debate for agriculture. New Social Contract (“NSC”) MP Harm Holman thought that Van der Plas used rather big words, but according to Van der Plas her choice of words is more than justified.
“Mr. Holman has been a farmer himself and has of course seen very well around him what is happening in families, what is happening at kitchen tables, how many tears have already been shed, how many terrible consequences all the misery has had for farmers. That has been destroyed. I am not going to say that Minister Adema did it or that Mrs van der Wal did it. It is a combination of everything that has happened in the past 20 or 30 years, the terrible campaign commercials on the radio about scrap milk, for example. In it, dairy farmers were accused of demolishing their cows.”
On Thursday, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek posted a video of a Dutch farmer giving a speech: “We are done talking. We’re done with these fake problems created by you politicians. You are trying to destroy farmers all over Europe, but just like the farmers in Brussels today, we will fight back!”
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