Populist parties surged as the hubris of the European political establishment was exposed in 2023 and the failures of the open borders agenda were put on full display for the world to see.
Blinded by arrogance and globalist visions of grandeur, political elites in Europe have long dismissed legitimate concerns about the negative ramifications of mass migration on their societies, from the breakdown of social cohesion to the stress on public services and the economy as a whole.
Yet this year, as the politics of the Middle East took centre stage on the streets of Europe, as more citizens were slain by Islamist terrorists in Brussels and Paris, and imported anti-semitism raged in Berlin, the issue could no longer be pushed under the rug.
Perhaps, as populist parties promising to restore sensible immigration begin to rise across the continent, the establishment may finally realise that they are not masters of the universe, but merely servants, and that they ignore the public at their own peril. “The voice of the people is the voice of God”… Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
The Dutch Vanguard
PVV Party leader Geert Wilders (L) takes a selfie during the swearing-in of the House of Representatives as parliament sits for the first time after the recent election, in The Hague, on December 6, 2023. (Photo by Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by KOEN VAN WEEL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
The Netherlands, which has been dominated by globalist governance over the past decade of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s rule in The Hague, saw its political landscape completely upended by populist parties twice in 2023.
In March, the upstart Boer Burger Beweging (Farmer Citizen Movement, BBB) party, which was born out of the farmer tractor protest movement, swept to a surprise victory in the provincial elections and became the largest party in the Dutch senate over rising rural anger against the Great Reset-style agenda of the Rutte government to forcibly shut down thousands of farms to meet dubious European Union emissions standards.
Following her party’s success at the ballot box, the plain-speaking half-Irish BBB leader Caroline van der Plas played Cassandra and correctly predicted that the position of Mark Rutte, the country’s longest-serving prime minister in history, had become “unsustainable” and that there would be elections within the year. The prediction from van der Plas would come to pass, with Rutte’s government collapsing in July over a failure to come to an agreement on immigration between his neo-liberal coalition partners.
While the provincial elections were dominated by the pushback against the climate agenda, the national elections held in November came to be dominated by immigration, as Islamist terror attacks once again broke out across Europe in the wake of the barbaric October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel.
The rising concern about allowing millions of migrants from the Middle East and Africa saw veteran anti-mass migration populist Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV) soar in the polls and ultimately ride the wave to a massive victory which sent shockwaves throughout Europe. Breitbart.
