Dutch farmers on collision course with Brussels over compulsory farm buyouts
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
I might have known the EU were behind this!
Brussels has warned furious Dutch farmers that compulsory farm buyouts are the only way for the Netherlands to meet its EU climate targets.
Climate chief Frans Timmermans said the European Commission would explain the green laws to Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB).
The BBB triumphed in regional elections last week after months of tractor protests that drew global attention and the support of former US president Donald Trump.
Farmers oppose prime minister Mark Rutte’s plans to reduce livestock numbers and buy up farms to cut nitrogen emissions, which are caused by manure and fertiliser.
“The Netherlands can only achieve the targets by buying out farmers and greening agriculture”, Mr Timmermans, who is Dutch, said.
“Let’s invest a lot in that. Above all, we have to give young farmers a perspective for the future,” the commission vice president told the NOS broadcaster.
The Dutch government says it must reduce nitrogen emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 to meet EU targets.
The BBB’s opposition to both the climate commitment and the compulsory purchase of farms put it on a collision course with the ruling four-party coalition and the EU.
Caroline van der Plas, the leader of the Farmers-Citizen Movement (BBB) which triumphed in regional elections last week CREDIT: REMKO DE WAAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
Mr Timmermans, a commission vice-president, said Ms van der Plas would be “very welcome” to visit Brussels after her landslide victory.
“We will then do exactly the same thing we have done before with officials, which is to explain what the European rules are,” the socialist and former foreign minister said.
Mr Timmerman’s comments are likely to fuel online conspiracy theories that the nitrogen row is a globalist pretext to steal the farmers’ land.
Ms van der Plas called for a meeting with Mr Timmermans after reports his department had backed the farm buyouts in advice to the government.
But the former journalist, who only founded the BBB in 2019, demanded he comes to meet her rather than her travel to Brussels.
“I understand that Timmermans also often comes to The Hague, so it can be done very quickly,” she said and demanded to know what solutions Brussels was offering to the nitrogen issue.
The BBB came from nowhere to become the largest party in all 12 Dutch provinces in an electoral triumph that raised questions over the survival of Mr Rutte’s ruling coalition.
The vote became a de facto referendum on Mr Rutte’s leadership, who became leader in 2010 and is the Netherlands longest-serving prime minister.
The tractor demonstration by farmers drew global attention and the support of Donald Trump. CREDIT: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock
The BBB can now use its 17 seats in the Dutch senate to try and block farm expropriations, which Mr Rutte says are needed to lift a court-ordered stop on nitrogen-emitting construction of roads and housing.
Its protests have spawned similar tractor demonstrations in Dutch-speaking Flanders in neighbouring Flanders.
Ms van der Plas has said the movement is about more than just nitrogen and said voters are “fed up” with traditional politicians and politics.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The climate change scam has a lot to answer for. It is all part of the UN/WEF/EU plan for world domination by an unelected, self-appointed elite. The unelected EU bureaucracy will continue to ride roughshod over the citizens.
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Agenda 21 in practice!
“But the former journalist, who only founded the BBB in 2019, demanded he comes to meet her rather than her travel to Brussels.”
Quite right to. Make them come to you. Never be at the beck and call of anyone, else you are just a powerless supplicant.
The counter argument to that is that they can leave your office any time they want. If you visit them, they have to ‘eject’ you from their office.
“If you visit them, they have to ‘eject’ you from their office.”
Thereby demonstrating their power. I think that you have just made my point for me
Hardly. You equally have the power to eject them from your office.
The point being that it would seem a bit silly of them to leave their own office if you wished to continue a debate they were losing.
They can walk out your office whenever they think they have won the debate, or are seen to be losing the debate.
Clearly you have never worked in a sales environment.
Why meet in an office? Meet on a pig farm for maximum publicity, it will be a long way outside the comfort zone of the typical parasite from Brussels.
No, of course not. I am an introvert and I follow Jordan Peterson’s advice.
“Clearly you have never worked in a sales environment.”
For which I am eternally grateful!
@Philip Mulholland – @catweazle666
The belief that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world is entirely wrong.
To ply their trade prostitutes were required to adopt sales.
Sales is therefore the oldest profession in the world.
You don’t ‘buy’ anything. You are ‘sold’ everything.
Without sales you wouldn’t have the steam engine, the motor car nor a computer upon which you are tapping out your posts.
Sales is trade. The skilled ability to agree a mutually beneficial deal.
It has shaped human existence since man first traded shells for food.
I don’t buy it.
“Sales is trade”
A massive oversimplification!
The purchase of perquisites from – say – a grocer according to need is entirely different to that of a salesman who is trained to sell you something you don’t need, whether in person or via an advertising campaign on the media.
Every grocer has competition. The one best at utilising tools like advertising, presentation, value costing etc. wins the customer.
As with my original observation and response from you, clearly you have never worked in a sales environment – even an animal advertising it’s fertility by smell is selling it’s opportunity to breed.
The fact is, you operate your own little sales empire yourself day to day, unless you are a hermit. You sell yourself daily by being approachable, agreeable, polite, knowledgeable, and generally attractive to other people.
You are even selling your ideas on this blog.
You are in a hole. Stop digging.
@Philip Mulholland
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I didn’t work hard enough to sell it then…….
The EU will ‘explain’ [the punishments that will be inflicted on your country if you fail to obey].
Perhaps the Dutch will now understand why The UK voted for Brexit.
Unelected bureaucrats will explain green laws to farmers.
If God gave them office, He surely gave them sense ..
The failures to understand the insignificant scale of effects of the Man-made contribution to further Greenhouse Gas emissions of Methane and Nitrous Oxide has resulted in irrational, damaging and unnecessary but ostensibly well-meaning Climate mitigation policies by Western Nations to “Save the Planet” from the adverse overheating effects of Mankind’s Greenhouse Gas emissions.
This is a massive and damaging error both of perception and of calculation.
Climate Alarmist thinking is based on the assumption that any level of warming, however minor, whether induced naturally or by mankind must inevitably be catastrophic. Aggressive Western Global Warming policies are based on ingrained, exaggerated, and innumerate mis-representations of the future warming effectiveness of CO2. The self-deception then extends to the even lesser effects from Man-made contributions of Methane and Nitrous Oxide.
It is as if the magic words “might affect Climate Change” seem to be all the justification needed for Western Governments, to carry out revolutionary, costly and self-destructive policies to control what are nominally Greenhouse Gasses but which from now on forward could only have a miniscule influence on Global temperature and Climate, without:
* any understanding of how trivial the likely effects that now might be achieved by any Western remedial action are on future Global temperatures.
* this is especially so, in contrast to the developing World, where the self-harming Western actions will be thought unimportant when compared to the advancement of their own development: the example optimistically set in the West will not be be replicated elsewhere.
* any consideration of the economic damage and the damage to human wellbeing that ensues from the self-inflicted, Western actions to control Climate.
* any confirmation of the real benefits that may result from Climate mitigation policies.
* any comprehensive and any even-handed Due Diligence, which should be critically applied to any government expenditure especially when undertaken on this vast scale.
* any voter assent from Western populations.
The ill-thought out Western “Virtue” of appearing to do the “right thing for the “Climate” has overpowered any quantified and rational consideration of the consequences of the mitigation measures taken by Mankind to control warming Climate Change, in spite of the huge scale of the resulting fiscal damage.
The extent of Nitrous Oxide “damage” to temperature could be as much as 0.01°C – 1/100°C. Politicians want to look good by trashing the West’s agribusiness for this miniscule effect. The figures are here:
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/the-minor-greenhouse-gasses-co2-ch4-n2o/
The effect of N2O on the Earth’s temperature was covered in detail by David Coe et al. They conclude that a small 0.3K of warming comes from N2O and CH4 combined, I think these are the main greenhouse gases from agriculture. In passing, 29.4K is reported from water vapour and 3.3K from CO2 The same paper relates to the very small rise in temperature caused by increasing each of these gases and it explains why the Earth’s temperature is (thankfully) quite stable.
file:///C:/Users/44771/Downloads/10.11648.j.ijaos.20210502.12%20(2).pdf
Does the European Climate chief Frans Timmermans show any knowledge about this area of science? If they keep referring to dinitrogen monoxide as ‘Nitrogen’ then perhaps they don’t. Life changing policies based on guesswork?
The Dutch farmers are not tolerating being pushed around and losing their livelihoods. The French are standing up against Macron and his bullying ways.
Is it not time the UK tell Sunak where to go ?
There will be a push back because these authorities are attacking people’s basic needs, food, warmth and shelter. Nor do they stop there. The control obsessed politicians attack people’s freedom by going after personal transportation and even movement, e.g. 15 minute cities.
We are poisoned and the promise of health care is eroded, e.g. try getting a dentist.
The cost of everything has suddenly rocketed while choice is being reduced. This is the real meaning of Net Zero.
People are lied to via state manipulation of the main stream media,
e.g. the farce of man made climate change or no reporting of the recent speech by Andrew Bridgen MP in Parliament that no other MPs had the wisdom to even listen to. All paid off and wanting to keep their comfy, easy, well paid and privileged jobs. At the same time controls are ramped up by legislation and new technologies, e.g. Smart cities or changes to banking and currency system.
Britain is being divided and throttled by fear, e.g. another looming pandemic, the spread of war or extreme weather events.
Our present day politicians will not stop the direction we are heading because they have been picked and positioned for exactly this purpose. They are simply two wings of the same bird. A rancid vulture at that.
One thing is certain – not taxes but change.
The speed of it is immense, e.g. national lockdowns and not just here but across almost all of the world. An example of organized crime on a gigantic scale if ever there was one. Education is dumbed down and distraction is rife. Who knew ?
Until we lock these master criminals up our situation is never going to improve. History tells us so.
There should be no tolerance of tyrannical political leaders who repeatedly act in their own self interest. While millions suffer.
Photo I.D. will be required at the next election. No choice there. Let us hope we have some worth turning out for on the ballot paper.
Climate change is about control. Net Zero is about making money dishonestly.
I see nothing wrong with having photo ID to vote although I am not aware of a big issue with voting fraud in the UK, especially with in person voting. Allowing a free for all with postal voting has seen some Labour fraud in asian communities but we are nothing like the utter shambles that is the US election system where there can be twice as many names on the voter roll as actually exist. At least there is some common sense in our new system such that expired documents can still be used if the photo is still a good likeness. I have my drivers licence that expires in 2025 and drew comment when registering at the local surgery in 2015 was not a good likeness so May might be interesting. For speed I was able online to use my passport photo. And taking into account people that have no photo ID – no passport, paper drivers licence – you can get an authorised document for the election.
There is no issue with personation in the UK. But there are huge question marks over postal voting. So the government makes personation much harder and does nothing about postal voting. I’m betting because the postal vote problem is largely in communities that are apparently untouchable.
“I see nothing wrong with having photo ID to vote”
It wouldn’t be as secure as people think and we still have the free for all with postal ballots.
I’m mixed race and have worked in places that serve alcohol I can already see the poor polling staff having to deal with people who provide a photo ID that clearly isn’t theirs or they have deliberately changed their appearance due to a subculture of some kind e.g. goths but I won’t surprise me if many of the polling staff would just agree they look like their ID when someone cries racism (even if they are white) or transphobia to avoid creating a scene
It wouldn’t surprise me if someone could get away with harvesting freedom pass if they put on a nice head scarves and vote multiple times which might be easier than harvesting postal ballots from an elderly person with borderline dementia.
Then I had someone at my door canvasing who informed me to just vote by post or by proxy if I didn’t have any photo I.D – that the last thing we need more people voting by post (which is where the electoral fraud in Great Britain happens).
We need to bring back needing a reason to voting by post like still is the case in Northern Ireland, have mobile polling station (over a month) in place like care home and even the home of the elderly to address ballot harvesting particularly in communities were this has historically being a problem, move the election to a Saturday or Sunday so schools can be more utilised and require anyone registered in more than place (as you can vote in more than 1 local election at the same time but not more than 1 parliament candidate) to either nominate a single parliament constituency to vote for parliament candidate in or have a real time record that’s check only for people marked as registered in more than place and the fact they have voted is recorded to stop the possibility of double voting.
It is forever amazing that such wide and harmful acts in so called civilised countries can be enforced to protect its citizens from a non-event about which the promulgators have such little scientific understanding.
But why is this a surprise? In the last 100 years or so we have had two hugely costly wars that killed tens of millions in Europe. One of those included the deliberate murder of millions because of their religion organised by the state. At the same time we saw millions deliberately starved to death by the state in one of the most agricultural productive regions of the West. We had supposed intellectuals calling for eugenic sterilisations and countries such as Sweden carrying them out until very recently. The UK privatised vast swathes of our economy in 1945 and watched them decline into disaster for 40 years. Later we banned DDT based on junk science and then panicked about acid rain, the Ozone layer and lead in petrol. We spend trillions “solving” those problems and at least the first two turned out to be fake. Across the West we changed a system that delivered virtually 100% literacy to one that gets nowhere near that just because. I could go on (and on) but the point is that we for some reason believe there was a halcyon period where the state was benevolent and sensible. That is a myth.
“The UK privatised vast swathes of our economy in 1945 and watched them decline into disaster for 40 years.”
I’m guessing you mean nationalise and think a big issue I have come across with this term is many forget especially on the left this isn’t same thing as public ownership or control but the centralisation to national government where it tends to get run by intellectual types who wouldn’t know how to change a light bulb but don’t want to admit they are out of their depth or have taken a
position that has turn out to be incorrect while municipal undertaking are run by local councils which traditionally contain local businessman who could see opportunities e.g. many gas and later electricity undertaking were built as the council (including police) want them for it own use e.g. street lighting and trams but could see a good business case to build a larger gasworks or power station with room for expansion where it could sell the excess to industry who would be encourage to move to the area or expand. Note some councils did exploit this e.g. in 1930s some forced their council housing tenant to use electric heating & cooking (which was more expensive than coal & town gas) as it made them more money and going to extreme length to do so e.g. concreting gas main off until this was ban by parliament and people were give the right to fuel choice.
Other examples include what happened to water and debatably flood control when it went from municipal control to national control (although regionalised) in 1973 when the last major reservoir built in Southern England & how much as the population increased by – if this was a municipal responsibility it would clearly have to be addressed by planning committees when new housing is approved. As well as highway England or whatever it called this week taking over some of road projects particularly bypasses there is 1 I know that would have build over 30 years ago as the current road it is accident blackspot and death trap.
I would need to look more into the science with DDT & the ozone layer to comment but there are issue we can observe that I doubt anyone would dispute:
DDT allowed many places e.g. United States to eradicate malaria and although it still allow for this purpose rule regarding agricultural export make this complex for less economically countries and is it possible we could have eradicate malaria in more place if we had a rational discussion regarding DDTs and what we value more the life of children in LEDC or wild life. Also I have heard DDT could have being mistaken for PCBs & dioxin in some of the testing which may actually be cause of some of the issues regarding the bird population.
Nuclear fission would have replaced much of the coal in electricity generation probably with district heating networks (outside somewhere like the Australian state of Victoria with power stations next lignite mines) and heavy oil in marine propulsion (which may have also allow faster travel) if coal, oil and natural had equivariant regulation to nuclear in the 1970s and the eugenic era scientist hadn’t moved to radiation with LNT model. As particularly in the United States much of the coal generation built in the 1970 & 1980s was build because the gov explicitly want coal to be used and made it nearly impossible to build alternatives with near ban on the use of natural gas & restriction on oil and how would build a nuclear power station when you didn’t get money back from your investment until the power station was running and delays and cost were being caused by rules being changed arbitrarily. The issue with air pollution & acid rain from stationary sources would have likely solve itself.
No one seem concerned CFCs which were not flammable were replaced with hydrocarbon refrigerants vs HFCs even in high rise block where we removed the gas supply for safety reason after Ronan Point.
At least initially benzene a notable carcinogen replaced Tetraethyllead in some countries as a antiknock agent which especially in vehicle without catalytic converters was worse to public health and air quality (its possible National Benzole actually stopped mixing petrol with benzene due to this in the 1950s ). Also I heard antidotes (that should be investigated as it worrying if they can be backed up) there was less vegetation to clear on road verges as the use of unleaded petrol increased in late 1980s/early 1990s and people were blaming it for an increase in leukaemia.
Then we of course have the diesel car fiasco (cause by the the Car tax system being manipulated to be based on Co2) which would have being avoid if they just required diesel cars to meet the same standards as petrol cars even if this meant having to do something about the Nox even if this required something like we have now with Adblue.
I’m just wondering who will be held accountable for allowing battery electric vehicles with highly flammable batteries which spontaneously combust and have fires that are extremely difficult to extinguish and keep extinguished as I doubt things will change until politicians & civil servants end up in prison and assets are seized under proceeds of crime in the cases were they can’t honestly claim good faith e.g. undeclared conflicts of interest and likely made a terrible decision that financially benefitted them.
“The BBB can now use its 17 seats in the Dutch senate to try and block farm expropriations, which Mr Rutte says are needed to lift a court-ordered stop on nitrogen-emitting construction of roads and housing.”
I didn’t know that there is a court order stopping the building of roads and housing. Where does this end? If this madness spreads, and I thought our leaders were bad enough, will we get similar bans here? The growing use of wood in housing may be next given that it involves chopping down trees. I’m sure the alarmists have got a whole load of demands lined up to destroy our society.
PS I see Greta is suing the Swedish Government for not following her guidelines. Putin and Xi must have quite a laugh over that one.
“The growing use of wood in housing may be next given that it involves chopping down trees.”
Of course!
We need to preserve the trees to burn them by the million in wood-fired power stations to produce “Green Energy”, don’t we?
‘The Dutch government says it must reduce nitrogen emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 to meet EU targets.’
C’mon, man! Do you want to meet EU targets, or eat? That’s where all this climate schtick is heading, we just didn’t know when it would hit the wall, or what it would look like.
The Dutch government declares it exists to serve the EU, not the people of Netherlands. They are going to have to end voting. Seriously, the choice will be “EU or food?” What will be shocking is significant numbers will vote “EU.”
Nexit next?
“Challenging Net Zero with Science” by Richard Lindzen and William Happer. Extract from the Summary: “……..As to the disastrous consequences of eliminating fossil fuels, it is estimated that nitrogen fertilizer [derived from fossil fuels] now supports approximately half of the global population.” As one of us (Happer) has made clear, without the “use of inorganic fertilizers” derived from fossil fuels, the world “will not achieve the food supply needed to support 8.5 to 10 billion people.”
The recent experience in Sri Lanka provides a red alert. “The world has just witnessed the collapse of the once bountiful agricultural sector of Sri Lanka as a result of government restrictions on mineral fertilizer.” The government of Sri Lanka banned the use of fossil fuel derived nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, with disastrous consequences on food supply there. If similarly misguided decisions are made eliminating fossil fuels and thus nitrogen fertilizer, there
will be a starvation crisis worldwide.
It is critical to repeat: Eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides will create worldwide starvation.”
“Challenging Net Zero with Science” is a landmark paper and should be read by as many people as possible.
Maybe that’s the idea. De-population is one of Attenborough’s hobby-horses.
“Challenging Net Zero with Science” by Richard Lindzen and William Happer. Extract from the Summary: “……..As to the disastrous consequences of eliminating fossil fuels, it is estimated that nitrogen fertilizer [derived from
fossil fuels] now supports approximately half of the global population.” As one of us (Happer) has made clear, without the “use of inorganic fertilizers” derived from fossil fuels, the world “will not achieve the food supply needed to support 8.5 to 10 billion people.”
The recent experience in Sri Lanka provides a red alert. “The world has just witnessed the collapse of the once bountiful agricultural sector of Sri Lanka as a result of government restrictions on mineral fertilizer.” The government of Sri Lanka banned the use of fossil fuel derived nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, with disastrous consequences on food supply there. If similarly misguided decisions are made eliminating fossil fuels and thus nitrogen fertilizer, there
will be a starvation crisis worldwide.
It is critical to repeat: Eliminating fossil fuel-derived nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides will create worldwide starvation.”
“Challenging Net Zero with Science” is a landmark paper and should be read by as many people as possible.
When will people start to realize that the climate scare is just a tool of tyranny ?
Here is an interesting article exposing the occult origins of the WEF based in earth worship and pantheism:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/finnish-professor-exposes-the-occult-roots-of-the-world-economic-forum/
Meanwhile the UK government with the unanimous support of all UK politicians, institutions, and media is continuing to fling the UK over the abyss.
SNAFU
The Dutch farmers need to join forces with farmers in ALL European countries to fight this madness. The other countries are next on the list for stealing land.
True, but it’s not just the farmers’ responsibility. They should be joined by millions.
“They came for the farmers, and I did not speak out, because I was not a farmer.” — H/T Niemöller
Quite right! It could be a new Boer War.
Some great comments, my summary is “we are being F*cked by the vested interests of our politicians”
Or is Sushi’s case, leaving aside that he is graduate of the WEF Hitler Youth, somebody who is detached from the reality of the general public having raked in over £1.5m a year for the last 3 years, built himself an indoor heated swimming pool while the local pool closes due to energy costs, such that when he says ‘we are all in this together’ an appropriate response is ‘Fuck you’.
If you have some time, read what Peter Lilley said in parliament on November 19th 2008 on the Stern Report, (Climate Change Act) here we are 15 years down the road stating the same arguments.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081119/halltext/81119h0001.htm
The voting arithmetic in the Senate will be government coalition 22 plus left bloc (Groen Links and PvdA – Labour) 15 plus >=1 from elsewhere will give a majority. Among the minor parties are PvdD, the animal rights group, who would almost certainly vote for extreme green policies on 4 seats.
However the government coalition is beginning to look unstable, with CDA in particular feeling the heat of losing so many seats through propping up government policy. That would reduce the government to 17 seats, which is surely an untenable position, even if they scramble votes from the Muslim DENK and extreme left.
It will be interesting to watch polling for the lower house elections where BBB has not had quite as strong a showing so far. To match their Senate performance they would need 34 seats. They were polling about half that at end February, which appears to be the most recent published polling. The lower House has 150 seats vs 75 tor the Senate.
What are our politicians thinking? Food security is even more important than energy security! When we turn all our farms back into ruddy wilderness, where does the food come from? Oh we import it…really? From who? From where? How stable is their politics?
HOW is that food we then need to import going to reach us? Also who says that the supply is guaranteed even if the fact that the transportation will be almost exclusively hydrocarbon fuelled? Anyone heard of politics and history? Anyone forgot that the UK almost starved to death during WWII care of the U boats? Our politicians may be daft but they are not stupid. So why are they going along with this latest form of state inflicted suicide? There are dangerous forces at work pushing this and we need look no further than China commissioning two new coal powered electricity generating stations a week and how they benefit . They have a plan for world domination and in no other way can countries offer themselves up to being held hostage to political machinations than by letting other people control their food supply. All of this is interconnected all with it’s roots back in the 1930’s and the Frankfurt School. Xi cannot believe his luck to see that we are actively helping him to take over the world without need to resort to conventional warfare. Too many ideologically motivated people are in too many influential positions. We need numerate and rational people only as government advisors. Anyone with an arts degree must demonstrate the ability to think critically, and also to be able to count.
Footnote. Notice the deliberate ignoring of China and India and how their increasing emissions make any mitigation on our behalf completely worthless. Notice how that is NEVER discussed by any of our politicians or the far left wing aligned media who try to control our ever thought. Even IF there was a climate crisis ( there most certainly isn’t), by deliberately ignoring the actions of China and India, those pushing this agenda of state suicide demonstrate that this whole crock of brown stuff is purely political in origin. Worse, the cash strapped “legacy media” cannot stop themselves fawning over China and India. I wonder why? Does the term “follow the money” come to mind? Finally point. What is motivating those who screech that banning tocktick (deliberate misspelling) is racist I wonder? Gosh I am a cynic!
As Richard Littlejohn regularly says: you couldn’t make it up. The EU is set to ban the refrigerant used in the heat pumps everyone is being ordered to use. Apparently the heat pumps have a Global Warming Potential rating sticker on them which indicates if your pump has PFAS refrigerant or not. According the blackoutnews:
‘There are no disadvantages in terms of heating performance, however, these more environmentally friendly models are significantly more EXPENSIVE.’ Not that these things are exactly cheap in the first place.
I wouldn’t waste a second talking to the EU dummies. If I were the BBB head I’d simply put out a statement say “No, we aren’t doing that and I don’t care about your stupid rules”.
This amounts to the nationalisation of farm land and farming but at supra national level. Is that the main objective?
Gates’ objective is that food will be to all intents and purposes plastic, manufactured in chemical plants owned by Gates and his cronies.
UK inflation on food today is18%.
Even if the farmers produce anything to eat here, there or anywhere – I will not be able to afford it !!!
Little option left …
“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.”
“Grikath” (who I understand lives in the Netherlands) has posted a long comment at Tim Worstall’s blog giving a somewhat different insight into who is really behind the Dutch government plan:
https://www.timworstall.com/2023/03/every-normal-man-must-be-tempted-at-times-to-spit-on-his-hands-hoist-the-black-flag-and-begin-slitting-throats-part-ii/#comment-1262005
If they do close Dutch farms, we should help them to move to the UK and make our agriculture 2nd in the world exporter for ftuit, veg, flowers and cheese. But of course, our ministry of agriculture thinks it’s still in the EU.
Good idea—if there’s any agricultural land that hasn’t been covered with solar panels!