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Far right infighting:
Belgian defence minister, a Flemish nationalist, refused to say Vive la Belgique (Long live Belgium) on live tv today as he considers himself, you know, a Flemish nationalist. But now that he is the Defence Minister that might be a a bit of a stupid thing to do lol.
I don’t understand seperatists who lead the country they’re trying to seperate from
Its performative. Belgian capitalist wouldnt risk the brexit style chaos a break-up of belgium would cause.
on the contrary, chaos is great for implementing austerity
Its the EU, they implement austerity regardless of chaos or stability.
Do you know any other examples of this happening?
The Scottish Nationalist Party has a lot of members in the UK parliament, for example.
Yeah, but they’re not in the government
The UK Parliament is literally part of the UK government… They participate, put up candidates for elections, and vote on laws.
To compare: the Sinn Fein party, another “separatist” party, from Ireland, does not send representatives to Westminster. They do not take part directly in the government that they’re aiming to becoming independent from, which is a more serious way of going about things than the SNP.
As someone who lives in Scotland I really should have thought of that.