In addition to Joost Eerdmans, the independent member of parliament Wybren van Haga, who was expelled from the VVD, and the Tilburg local politician Hans Smolders, are also high on the Forum for Democracy candidate list for the March elections.
According to the latest insights of empathetic journalism (the heart warm, keep a cool head) we must not first condemn the angry farmers, but learn to understand their despair. I've tried it; they make it damn difficult for you.
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The man who constantly accuses government institutions of spreading false information about agriculture, it turns out that it is not so careful with the facts. In October, Agrifacts leader Jan Cees Vogelaar announced to a group of farmers that he was in 2016 had bought motions from MPs through a public affairs agency. After questions from De Volkskrant on this he withdraws that assertion.
When it comes to fighting back, farmers know, you have to be with Jan Cees Vogelaar, the leader of the resistance to nitrogen policy. Smart and substantively strong, but also a man who threatens and bluffs and walks along with Thierry Baudet.
The Mesdag Dairy Fund was once established "to invest in improving the quality of milk". Nowadays it sets itself up as a scientific agency of the F-side of the peasant protest and acts in doubt, suspicion and disinformation.
What is Forum for Democracy really have to, after all internal factions and splinter groups of the past year? At the general meeting Saturday was much to discover in the colorful parade of right-wing conservative paradise birds which passes through the members.