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2007-09-19 Europe

Majority of Flegms think Belgium will split: poll

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Posted by Fred 2007-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Somebody said Belgium was for sale on e-Bay yesterday - I don't know if it had any bidders.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-19 08:05|| 2007-09-19 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 It got to 10 million euros before it was pulled.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-09-19 09:15|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-09-19 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Flems truly want to secede, the best bet would be to try and get some of the French on their side by promising a split like the Czechs and Slovaks did. Peaceful and with smiles all around.

The Flems might even subsidize a Walloon Francophile group to proclaim how nice the South will be without Flems.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-19 09:41|| 2007-09-19 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 While the Flemish make up the majority, with 60 per cent, political power must shared equally with the Walloons. This means that if half the country's 40 per cent of French speakers, only a fifth of the total population, want to block a government coalition they can.

Welcome to Canada. The only home of working people supporting the French on welfare scams, graft and civil service jobs which exclude the majority. I blame the English. In both cases we won the war and in both cases we handed the peace over to the enemy.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-19 10:24|| 2007-09-19 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I meant to write "the other home..." PIMF

Posted by Excalibur 2007-09-19 10:26|| 2007-09-19 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 What Excalibur said. . . . . .

One MUST be bilingual to obtain one of those wonderful Federal Civil Service jobs with a fully indexed pension that the tax paying suckers have to shell out for.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2007-09-19 11:40|| 2007-09-19 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Flems truly want to secede, the best bet would be to try and get some of the French on their side by promising a split like the Czechs and Slovaks did.

The French get a lot of welfare from the Flemish side.

Posted by lotp 2007-09-19 11:53|| 2007-09-19 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 The French get a lot of welfare from the Flemish side.

In my experience, that's because the Walloons, having been accustomed to being the gentry and landed nobility, will either be management of, or supported by, the Flemish peasantry. The charming real estate agent who found the rental house we so enjoyed was from Walloon. She spent much of our time together relating tales from the very expensive renovation of the family chateau, built in the 14th or 15th century. She was very excited about finally getting a modern kitchen carved out of one of the upper rooms -- the original kitchen having finally been given up as an unfixable relic.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-19 12:59|| 2007-09-19 12:59|| Front Page Top

#9 If what I've read is true (and I have no first hand experience), the upper class Francophones dominate Brussels, where they have pretty much walled Flemmings out of power.

But Wallonia proper the level of education and income is lower than among Flemmings and the degree of welfare dependency much higher.

Posted by lotp 2007-09-19 14:06|| 2007-09-19 14:06|| Front Page Top

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