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The professional turf cutter Fitzmaurice is trying to start up a Rural Ireland/Farmer Party following the success of BBB in the Netherlands at the last Genenal election. Basically pro farming, less keen on animal welfare red tape and not mad on climate change reduction measures so right up Fitzmaurice street. With SF on the rise a Rural party could be Kingmakers at the next GE. So I thought it would be interesting to look at BBB policies to see what he might lift and transfer here.
A basic income is available to all students.
There will be a Minister for the Countryside with a department at least 100 km away from The Hague.
Products that are vital to Dutch society must also be produced in the Netherlands, now and in the future. These include protective equipment for healthcare, a basic food package, fuels, certain medicines and drinking water.
Antibiotic use in both animals and humans will be limited to what is strictly necessary.
After each election, all 150 elected MPs and the entire Cabinet are obliged to attend a week-long in-farming course in the countryside, at least 100 kilometres from their home town. There, they are taught all facets of living and working in the countryside by farmers and rural residents.
We no longer talk about highly educated or lowly educated. We only talk about theoretically educated and practically educated.
Grass will replace garden tiles, oases instead of bare shopping plazas. There will be more plants, gardens and quiet forests
In the training of all teachers, an internship in a part of the agricultural sector will be compulsory.
Houseplants return to the House of Representatives and all other government buildings. For more fresh air and oxygen. This promotes sanity.
Discrimination is prohibited. So also positive discrimination. People applying for jobs in the government are judged on the basis of quality and not on the basis of gender, physical disability, colour, sexual orientation, religion or whatever. There will therefore be no women's quota, or any quota for that matter, in government departments. The only quota there will be is a quality quota: 100 per cent of the employees have the best qualities.
The landscape is worth as much as the climate. There will be no solar panels in the outlying area as long as there are empty roofs and sites. New solar parks are tested against the 'solar ladder' or a similar assessment framework.
BBB is most in favour of nuclear power as a clean energy source. For structural energy production, without damaging our beautiful landscape, without adapting our energy grid, safe nuclear power plants can be built. No CO2 emissions and a cheap raw material. New technologies offer new safe insights: w.o. nuclear energy
Invest 9 million euros in Food Banks. This amount will allow the Ministry of Social Affairs to apply for a EUR 60 million European grant from the European Commission for Food Banks in the Netherlands.
The flow of subsidies to 'charity organisations' and action groups that engage in politics, thus influencing the democratic process, will be stopped. Charitable organisations whose activism puts the lives of farmers, citizens and fishermen at risk will be stripped of their ANBI status, thus depriving them of tax benefits
Greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration are netted (i.e. emissions minus sequestration). That is the actual emissions.
Separating partners upon admission to a nursing home is a thing of the past.
We deploy green spaces and field edges to protect the insect and bee population. Farmers who invest in these are rewarded for this through the price of their produce.
A basic income is available to all students.
There will be a Minister for the Countryside with a department at least 100 km away from The Hague.
Products that are vital to Dutch society must also be produced in the Netherlands, now and in the future. These include protective equipment for healthcare, a basic food package, fuels, certain medicines and drinking water.
Antibiotic use in both animals and humans will be limited to what is strictly necessary.
After each election, all 150 elected MPs and the entire Cabinet are obliged to attend a week-long in-farming course in the countryside, at least 100 kilometres from their home town. There, they are taught all facets of living and working in the countryside by farmers and rural residents.
We no longer talk about highly educated or lowly educated. We only talk about theoretically educated and practically educated.
Grass will replace garden tiles, oases instead of bare shopping plazas. There will be more plants, gardens and quiet forests
In the training of all teachers, an internship in a part of the agricultural sector will be compulsory.
Houseplants return to the House of Representatives and all other government buildings. For more fresh air and oxygen. This promotes sanity.
Discrimination is prohibited. So also positive discrimination. People applying for jobs in the government are judged on the basis of quality and not on the basis of gender, physical disability, colour, sexual orientation, religion or whatever. There will therefore be no women's quota, or any quota for that matter, in government departments. The only quota there will be is a quality quota: 100 per cent of the employees have the best qualities.
The landscape is worth as much as the climate. There will be no solar panels in the outlying area as long as there are empty roofs and sites. New solar parks are tested against the 'solar ladder' or a similar assessment framework.
BBB is most in favour of nuclear power as a clean energy source. For structural energy production, without damaging our beautiful landscape, without adapting our energy grid, safe nuclear power plants can be built. No CO2 emissions and a cheap raw material. New technologies offer new safe insights: w.o. nuclear energy
Invest 9 million euros in Food Banks. This amount will allow the Ministry of Social Affairs to apply for a EUR 60 million European grant from the European Commission for Food Banks in the Netherlands.
The flow of subsidies to 'charity organisations' and action groups that engage in politics, thus influencing the democratic process, will be stopped. Charitable organisations whose activism puts the lives of farmers, citizens and fishermen at risk will be stripped of their ANBI status, thus depriving them of tax benefits
Greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration are netted (i.e. emissions minus sequestration). That is the actual emissions.
Separating partners upon admission to a nursing home is a thing of the past.
We deploy green spaces and field edges to protect the insect and bee population. Farmers who invest in these are rewarded for this through the price of their produce.
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