Cracks are starting to appear in the inflexible Dutch government resolve. Angry farmers have convinced at least a couple important ministers to rethink their heavy-handed and ill-conceived strategy on nitrogen emissions. If they don’t convince Prime Minister Mark Rutte to cave in, there won’t be any farms or any food.
Dutch ministers crack
Mark Rutte, the far-left Prime Minister ruling over the Dutch Netherlands – in the name of his World Economic Forum mentor, Klaus Schwab – has been insisting all along that his harsh nitrogen emissions target numbers are carved in stone. Not so fast, members of his cabinet are telling the world.
On Tuesday, August 23, the government nearly had a fistfight. After the scrum, Rutte came out to declare “members of his Cabinet have enough confidence in each other to keep working together.” What that means is they canceled vacation to try and hammer out a compromise.
The fireworks started when Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra went to the Dutch press and gave an interview. He called Rutte’s scheme to slash nitrogen levels in half by 2030 a ridiculous catastrophe. Those numbers, he unilaterally declared on TV to the delight of local farmers, weren’t “set in stone.”
They have odd names for their political parties there but he happens to represent “Christian Democrats.” They’re the ones who usually score the most points “among farmers and in rural communities.” Well, they did until the government published its nitrogen targets. Their popularity has been dropping in the polls ever since.
By going off and doing that publicly it “caused tensions among members of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s four-party ruling Cabinet.” Suddenly, cracks appeared in the stone face the Dutch government has been showing to the farmers for months.
There was such fierce disagreement on the subject that this “will be the first major test of unity since the coalition took office in January after the country’s longest-ever government formation negotiations.”
Interview caused friction
Giving highly agitated Dutch farmers reason for hope on national television really ruined Rutte’s day. He admits the Hoekstra interview “caused friction with” his Agenda 2030 plans for a Great Reset. He tried to dump the whole issue back in the lap of his “hired gun” negotiator.
Rutte hedged commitment to anything by saying he was waiting for “the outcome of a series of discussions between a mediator and ministers, representatives of the agriculture industry and environmentalists.” They were intended to “ease tensions in the heated public debate” but they broke down almost instantly and went nowhere.
Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders is the biggest thorn in the side of Mark Rutte. The Party for Freedom “is the largest opposition group in parliament.” They’re the ones who made Rutte miserable by demanding debate on the issue.
Wilders also “used it to criticize the government for not doing enough to tackle a cost-of-living crisis that is hitting the Netherlands and many other European nations amid soaring energy costs and inflation.”
The Dutch have many of the same problems with their government that we do. For the same New World Order globalist reasons. “This Cabinet is totally detached from reality,” Wilders announced as the debate began. He went on to promise that “he would file a motion of no confidence in the government later in the debate, which was expected to last into the evening.”
Liberal but “centrist” D66 party member Sigrid Kaag, “did not attend the debate because she was ill.” She’s already on record backing Rutte and her “party has pushed hard for the emission reduction targets.” She’s been in hiding since Hoekstra held his interview because she doesn’t want to get sprayed with manure.
