It seems some sort of people’s revolution is aswirl in the Netherlands. The Boer Burger Beweging (BBB or Farmer–Citizen Movement), a newly formed political party representing the farmers, won the most seats in the Dutch provincial elections. This being the culmination of three and a half years of nationwide demonstrations. Demonstrations, I note, from a country not famous for demonstrating…


So what exactly happened?
Dutch legal philosopher, political activist, writer and commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been stood at the forefront of many of the protests. Eva joins me in London to explain how and why the farmers movement came about. From the so-called nitrogen crisis of 2019 through the various contentions between the Dutch government and the working people.

If this is indeed a clash between a technocratic worldview of an elite focussed on battling climate apocalypse at all costs, and the realities of normal working people, can there be a compromise? Should there be a compromise? And if government proposes policy to halve livestock in the world’s second biggest agricultural producing nation, you’d think they’d have good reason…
Eva takes me on a history of what happened, why it has happened, and what the election portends for the future. We also discuss the case against Net Zero and her plans for Nexit - the Dutch withdrawal from the EU.
All this and more…
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Thank you Eva,
WM
Good interview. Tha ks