Belgium is Boring? No it isnt!!!  In some ways, disintegrating Belgium is a prototype EU whose relationship with the actual EU is also a prototype. What's happening there is highly relevant to us in Britain and to the BNP. There are close parallels between the anti-democratic persecution of the Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Blok / Belang and the persecution fo the BNP in Britain.

(This article is no 5 in the series ‘Liberal Optimism and the Reality of Multicultural, Multiracial Societies World Wide.’)

Like the EU, Belgium is an artificial creation from disparate ethnicities, brought together for political reasons which seemed pressing at the time, but which are now outworn.

The country emerged following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Rejecting the post-Waterloo settlement which placed the area under the Protestant Dutch crown, it set itself up in 1830 as an independent state comprising the Catholic populations of Dutch speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia in the south.

 In Belgium as in Britain, heavy Industry has declined

At first Wallonia, which embraced the Industrial Revolution with coal mines, steel – making and other industry, was the wealthier part and French speakers comprised the social elites and dominated the state. Brussels, the capital city, once Flemish Dutch –speaking, became Frenchified.

Gradually though, the economic position has reversed. As in Britain, heavy industry declined in Wallonia and with it the dominance of the French-speaking area.

The Rise of Flanders and of Flemish Nationalism

Now, Flemings enjoy a per-capita income 118% of the EU average, while the average Wallonian French per capita income is 85%. The Flemings’ sense of identity is much stronger than that of the Walloons. The former’s economic rise has been paralleled by a rise in their nationalism, cultural pride and self-assertiveness (the Flemish Renaissance: the Vlaamse Beweging) to the point that Belgium is in now in reality two ethnic states under one government. Most institutions from the media through to political parties are now segregated on linguistic lines. Few Belgians think of themselves as Belgian; they are either Flemings or Walloons. The only true Belgian is the Monarch

Current Nationalist Parties

Current Flemish nationalist parties derive from the break-up in 1971 of the Volksunie (People’s Union) party which forced semi-federalism on Belgium but was seen to have compromised separatist principles by those on the right. Leaving behind the compromised rump, two right wing parties emerged; the N-VA :New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw –Vlaamse Alliante) and the Vlaams Blok.

The N-VA is a centre right, civic nationalist party which wants the imposition of Flemish Dutch to encourage the integration of immigrants and an orderly break-up of Belgium. Following the general election in June this year, it has become the largest party in parliament with 27 seats, up from 19 in 2007. A coalition government in Belgium would probably result in the N-VA having to tone down its demands. But its success means that if Belgium is not transformed into a (very) loose Federation, it may try to take Flanders out of Belgium altogether right away. Negotiations are continuing and the omens for Belgian unity are not good.

The Establishment Attack on Flemish Nationalism and Parallels with the BNP

The right-wing, conservative nationalist Vlaams Blok" (Flemish Bloc), now the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) became the first party to demand total Flemish independence. For obvious reasons, the Belgian establishment began to became alarmed at the growth of this party when in 1991 it increased its number of members of parliament from 2 to 12, gaining 6.6% of the vote. In 2003, the Vlaams Blok received 11.6% of the vote with 18 MPs elected . In the 10 June 2007 it won 17 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 5 out of 40 seats in the Senate. The other parties refused to work with it, claiming that it was "racist." It was convicted of "spreading racism’’ because it wanted to send criminal immigrants back to their country of origin, in a trial which has been condemned as politically motivated. Gerolf Annemans, chairman of the VB denounced the case as follows:

"What a disgrace, my friends. The names of all main legal players in that trial are forever engraved in this lawyer's memory; they are warned for the rest of their careers. Because this was a trial of cowardry, of meanness, and above all, of injustice. And that, that we should never, until the end of our days, never shall we forget that." 

The VB was forced to rewrite its programme and change its name into "Vlaams Belang." The party, whose agenda includes the deportation of immigrants who fail to assimilate, opposition to the Islamisation of Europe, which it (quite rightly) regards as a ‘frightening historical process ‘and to the entry of Turkey into the EU, got 12 seats with 7.76% of the vote. Some supporters are thought to have moved to the N-VA, no doubt as a result of the campaign of vilification and political ostracism it has endured.

The EU is a Solvent of Political Ties

It is clear that with Belgium as elsewhere, for example as between England and Scotland the EU, which has taken over many of the functions of its constituent states, is tending, as planned, to act as a solvent of political ties.

It is happening everywhere but is particularly the case where ties are the weakest, as in Belgium. Scotland and England are racially very similar; they share an island, a language, a religion, much culture and a long history of unity, but even they are affected. But Belgium has deep divisions of history, culture and language as well as other aspects of ethnicity. The economic and political advantages which helped to bring about the Union between Scotland and England, such as sharing the Empire, are now much less. The Flemings, who comprise the larger proportion of the population of Belgium, can though see few or none in their alliance with the Walloons.  

Belgium is no longer seen to represent the Interests of the Flemings

The N-VA , now the largest Flemish Party and also the largest in Belgium, is viewed by an increasing number of Flemings as serving their interests where the Belgian state does not. Flemings are fed up with subsidising the welfare socialism of French Wallonia, in the same kind of way that some English people view Scotland.  Like the Scots Nats, this party looks to the EU which, having taken over many of the functions of the state seems to make that state increasingly redundant.

So what does the Example of Belgium portend for Britain – and for the EU?

Here is the irony. Yes, the EU is there to destroy states but this alone does not decrease nationalism as was its intention. It is stripping aggregations of disparate ethnicities or mini-empires if you like, such as Belgium, Spain - and Britain - of the functions of their statehood including their economic functions and handing them to an overarching empire, the EU. But rather than of itself destroying nationalism; it is merely reducing it to its essentials: ethnicity and ethnic homeland.

Only the most ethnically cohesive National Identities will survive the EU.

So within the EU only those national identities have chance of surviving which have the greatest ethnic cohesion. That is why our Marxoid political class (be its members left –liberals or economic liberals like Cameron), which thinks that the obliteration of ethnic identity is desirable in the drive for a materialist Utopia, makes such great efforts on the one hand to deny us our ethnicity and on the other to try to destroy it by importing millions of aliens.

Always keep a Hold of Nurse for Fear of finding Something Worse?

But will the Flemish (and the Scots and the Catalans and all the other ethnicities who might think that they want to be within the EU rather than within Belgium, Spain, Britain or whatever) … will they really be better off? Ah, there’s the rub.  Dissatisfaction with their present arrangements does not mean that they necessarily will be in any other.

The EU is a worse ‘Partner’ for an Ethnic Group than its Present Ones.

For example, the EU is proving to be much more of an interfering, authoritarian, anti-democratic busybody to the British than some Scots think that England is to them. And the credit crunch has revealed the EU as not being the golden road to an everlasting economic wonderland some thought it was. It is proving to be an economic straightjacket which is now stifling economic recovery for poorer countries in the direst economic difficulties such as Greece, and a source of anger for those in the richer countries who, themselves in difficulties, find themselves obliged to bail out their spendthrift partners.

The EU is 'Socialism' Writ Small.

The parallel between the Flemings' attitude to dependent, socialist Wallonia and the attitude of countries such as Gemany to others such as Greece is clear. It is not often noticed that the EU idea exhibits the worst aspects of benefit socialism. The poorer nations thought that by getting into the EU they could avail themselves of the hard work, thrift and comparative wealth of other nations who would willingly and indefinitely part with their funds out of the goodness of their hearts or in the hope of jam tomorrow, without any real effort or price to pay on the formers’ part They are now finding out that they were wrong.

The Real Price of Membership of the EU: Spiritual and Moral Degradation and Balkanisation.

Part of that price is moral and spiritual degradation for both giver and receiver which comes with any economic arrangement in which one party is viewed as dependent. Such an arrangement is sometimes not easy even when there are close ties of blood and so on as in the relationship between Scotland and England. But when there are no such ties, it is likely to become a source of extreme resentment on the one hand and cynical and  character- destroying exploitation on the other. The destruction wrought by  this comparative lovelessness is exacerbated terribly through mass immigration.

Belgium –The Future

With Flanders gone, perhaps into a closer relationship with its ethnic brother, the Netherlands, the remaining parts of Belgium will likely attach themselves to their ethnic relations in France, Germany and Luxemburg. Such a fracture will fundamentally be the result of racial / ethnic differences, whatever Flemish party is involved and whether such factors are admitted or not.  If the Vlaams Blok /Belaang is guilty of anything it is of being self-aware and too honest, where other parties are self-deluding &/or hypocritical.

Belgium-The Future of Britain

Though there are stronger bonds between its native peoples than some other European states, Britain's political cohesion has already been weakened by the corrosive effects of the EU which have greatly encouraged separatist feelings. It now also has in its midst a large and rapidly increasing number of immigrants who are racially, religiously and culturally  completely alien to the country. Much of this ethnic wedge shows every sign, encouraged by multiculturalism, of refusing to integrate.

As a result of these factors the country is already splitting by area on racial /ethnic lines, with ethnics concentrated in certain urban areas from which whites are fleeing. As the ethnic population expands thanks to a higher birthrate and continuing immigration, these urban ethnic strongholds are likely in time to expand into the surrounding rural  'contados,' eventually linking up into continous ethnic territories.

If the BNP is not successful, at some time in the future that split is likely to be formalised in some way, possibly after prolonged civil strife. In other words the country will Balkanise, like Belgium. With the ethnic basis of the Union gone, Scotland is likely to lead the way out of it.

Belgium - The Future of the EU

It is now becoming more and more obvious to the peoples of Europe that the EU has failed to bring about economic utopia and that the consumerist bonanza of the last decade or so was largely based on borrowed money. The EU foisted ethnic divisions and strife on the peoples which they have always resented but which they put up with because they were personally materially well off – they thought. Now that that prosperity has proved to be an illusion, tolerance of their dispossession may decline.

A great motive for the  EU was that it would get rid of wars, but while it is getting rid of national boundaries and sovereignty it has not done even that. In fact, major wars in Europe died with the advent of nuclear weapons, about which the EU had no input whatsoever. But there have of course been other  'progressive wars' (copyright T. Blair) in Europe and elsewhere.

As a result of all this, the view must be encouraged amongst the ordinary European, if not their  respective Political Classes, that the disadvantages of the EU overwhelmingly outweigh its advantages, such as freedom of trade and of movement.

The Power of Ethnic Interests is acting as a Solvent on the Political Ties of the EU

The EU has tried to undermine ethnicity, but the power of ethnicity, hand in hand with a growing awareness among the broad mass of the peoples of Europe of the true price to be paid for membership of the EU club is acting as a solvent on the political ties of European Union in the same way that the EU is a solvent on the political ties of its constituent ethnicities. These factors may be enough to bring about its demise.

The net result may be a Europe of  smaller, stripped-down ethnic states locked in struggling unwelcome embrace with their respective alien populations.