Barely two weeks after the fall of the Rutte cabinet, the election campaign seems to have already started. At least with the PvdA/Groenlinks combination. 'Mister Green Deal' Frans Timmermans took the calculated gamble to return prematurely from Brussels to The Hague, to take over Mark Rutte's seat there. He has of course said that he is also prepared to sit in the House of Representatives, if things turn out differently, but there is a lot of confidence.
PvdA and GroenLinks already look in a victory mood in advance. Other candidates for the leadership of the new combination were there at first, but they took off at the news about the vote cannon from Europe. According to the comments, the mathematical formula of 1 + 1 = 3 or more comes into effect in a block of PvdA and GroenLinks. Then put a heavyweight at the head and the election victory can no longer escape the left of the Netherlands, even without D66.
PvdA leader, Groenlinks profile
According to the PvdA, if Timmermans were to become prime minister, he should mainly be concerned with improving purchasing power for ordinary citizens and other matters that make everyday life more pleasant. So that can still become a thing, although Timmermans unites a PvdA membership with a GroenLinks profile.
With him as prime minister, things don't seem to get any better for farmers than with the current (outgoing) government. Frans Timmermans, for example, is no less a nitrogen fundamentalist than Tjeerd de Groot of D66 and evokes almost as much irritation on various forums.
While the PvdA and GroenLinks already have a PR lead over the rest, the VVD, CDA, D66 and partly also ChristenUnie have to put things in order internally and elect new leaders. They also need to distinguish themselves more from each other. That will be quite difficult with a caretaker cabinet in the background that expresses all kinds of ambitions with the last breaths. According to several ministers, there is still a lot to be completed. They often need each other for that.
Old policy and new campaign
So there are all kinds of contradictions for them to overcome. For example, CDA members said on a working visit to the country this week that they wanted to learn lessons from the past cabinet term. The question arises how they want to do this and when they want to start. already, or only after a few more political decisions have been taken that will make the countryside unhappy again? Something similar applies to the VVD. This party also wants to retain votes in the countryside, but some distance must be taken from the old cabinet policy.
Clumsy statements by ministers can then be counterproductive. For example, VVD minister Christianne van der Wal recently claimed that peak taxers who might want to be bought out are being intimidated. Inquiries at her own department show that no signal has been received about this. The minister apparently sucks the threats out of her thumb. Such things do not help to restore confidence. It is still impossible to say how things will go in the coming months in the run-up to the new elections.
BBB peak over?
According to some polls, the BBB has already passed its peak. This would be partly because the party has made a number of clumsy moves in coalition formation at the provincial level. The coalition formation itself also plays a role in the image. Many voters think that the party they vote for will then translate their views into policy in full. However, it has never worked that way, except perhaps in countries where everything was predetermined anyway. It is a persistent idea or dream that it should be different. In the polder country of the Netherlands, every policy becomes a weaker copy of the party program of its own preference. Sometimes nothing comes of it at all, but every citizen who lives or has lived in a family should know that, you would say.
Timmermans' antennas
It does not alter the fact that the BBB, as a newcomer, still has to deal with it. This with the knowledge that every new sound will also sound old and familiar. But also based on the strength of its own arguments, which attracted many voters this spring. Van der Plas already got acquainted with the expected major opponent a few weeks ago, when Timmermans' ambitions were not yet known, but the latter may have already had some reasoned premonition.
City against countryside
Whatever happens, the contradictions surrounding agriculture, nature and climate policy will not diminish for the time being. On the one hand, there are groups that radically deny or trivialize climate and other problems, on the other hand, the climate alarmists are also sounding the alarm and the anti-animal husbandry groups are becoming increasingly fanatical. For example, advertising man and senator for the Party for the Animals Niko Koffeman argues that sheep are more dangerous to humans than wolves and he thinks that anyone in the Netherlands who puts a burden on the wolf should be brought to justice.
Whether he is completely convinced of his words is not clear. Because he does live in the Veluwe, but wisely does not sleep in a tent between his beloved four-legged friends. Koffeman and many other declared wolf lobbyists are now also putting things on edge with this. It would be sad if November's elections ended in 'urban versus rural' elections.
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Holy shit, what a stupid level here. Go for a walk in your crops or something.
Totally agree with Flevo farmer. By writing these things like this, most of them here portray themselves as real stupid farmers who deserve nothing more than to be pinched by Mr. Timmermans. What would you do if you were beaten up like this with him and you had the chance to get your shit. Disagree with him, no problem, but come up with good arguments and decent criticism. As it is now, you are among the plebs of our country.
Make him mayor of Antarctica.