Thread by @ThinkAgainForEU

Hi @Nigel_Farage

So, you have attacked Belgium again,.
The country you work in.
The country you get your wages from.
Belgium is actually a great nation. The U.K. could learn a lot from Belgium, which is a federal state.
You know, that type of state you are all scared of.

I am Belgian, and actually very proud of my country.
Belgium has 4, not 2 parts like you tried to tell people.
I come from the Flemish part, Beveren, near Antwerp.
You could say that Antwerp is a little like London, with the river running through (De Schelde).

The Flandres speak Flemish, which is actually "old Dutch", a dialect.

Go down south and you enter the second part, which is the part you work at, Brussels.
So it amazes me you missed this out when you told everyone that Belgium has 2 parts.
Brussels speaks Dutch and French.

And going further south, you enter Wallonia, the French speaking part.
This is the most scenic part in my opinion with all the woodlands.

And finally, we have at the east a small part which speaks German.

Do we all get along?

As you know any country has trouble within, but here the arguments are mostly at the political side, which is why the federal state system works for Belgium.
We all have our government and a federal government.
It works!
Are we really divided?

I don't think so. When I worked for Portakabin, which, in Belgium has a company in Flandres and Wallonia, I often had to work together with the French speaking people.

My French is bad but we had lots of fun trying to decipher what we are trying to say.

I can only speak from personal experience obviously.
But I never had the feeling Belgium was divided.

I currently live in the UK and I can say honestly that the referendum did prove how divided the UK actually is.

There is no part of the country that fully agrees on the outcome, which was near enough 50/50.

I am not really planning to write an anti Brexit post though. That was just as a comparison.

So another thing you mentioned was that Belgium does not have a national TV station?
Actually, I watch Belgian TV daily.
We do have a national station, which owns the VRT and the RTBF group.

I hope this small bit of education did help you a little.

I do have to add though if you hate Belgium so much, why don't you try and find work elsewhere?
Especially because you forgot the part you work in.

Or you could try and spend some time in the different parts of Belgium and try and enjoy our beers.

Talk to people, other than right wing people.
Have a boat trip in Bruge, or Ghent.
Visit the Ardennes, learn a little about our history.
Learn our languages, it helps speaking more than one language.

And BTW, Guy is right. Belgium will beat England!
Belgium as a united country has a national team! Where is the U.K. football team?