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He's a silent racist. He was a party leader for Vlaams Blok and personally tried to ban hijabs many times. Then he became party leader for NVA and changed his strategy. He introduced authoritarian GAS fines which are fines that can be- and have been abused to target minorities. He worked his way up to PM so he could get the rich rightwing assholes in power. The "Arizona" government is one for the rich whites, and he gains a lot from it.
I'm not poor and I am white. But I'll still answer your bullshit. Brussels and Anderlecht are much bigger immigrant destinations. Respecting poorer parts of the society does not make it poor. It just looks like that in statistics. Destroying nightlife and Antwerp culture, so you can put luxury apartments with a good view is not development. It's elitism.
So fuck him and fuck you for trying to spin this elitist bullshit.
Bart De Wever was never the chairman of Vlaams Blok. He's never been a member of Vlaams Blok/Vlaams Belang, which makes it kinda hard for him to have ever been their party leader.
Brussels and Anderlecht aren't in flanders buddy, other government.
Rich people in general. He doesn't care if they are of European descent. What he wants is a stable environment for rich people to grow richer.
Which is fine, majority of Belgians are rich.
We don't attract high risk investments. We attract stable compound interest investments. That's what Europe does.
He doesn't like economic crises. He wants stability.
Lemme visit Singapore in May and see how an authoritarian selfish shit hole (richest area in south east Asia) looks and feels like.
(Those rich people aren't all Europeans, most are Chinese, Malaysian, etc)
I don't vote on De Wever, I vote on Vooruit, which you wouldn't expect on whatever I'm writing on this thread.
But I know that De Wever is the leader of the largest political party in flanders, and has been mayor of the most thriving Flemish city in the country.
Majority of Antwerp have immigrant background and once again they elected a mayor from his party now that he's the PM.
So maybe, these immigrants actually like him?
We're importing people from right wing countries, you're aware of this I'm sure. My Turkish diaspora friend votes for Erdogan. Just like most Turks here.
You sound like such a lovely person
Depends on the situation and who you are. If you think you can deduce someone's whole personality on one thread, then you're quite wrong
Ah yes. You are correct.
Until you actually look at who these people are. They are all rich and "classy". The NVA party leaders and mayors also surround themselves with self-employed white people that just have to kiss their ass and get subsidies. I can give you the proof for this, but I don't think you'd even do the research.
Incorrect. Belgium has a huge middle class with a very decent social net. That makes everybody feel rich, which is awesome, but it is not rich like the people that are his target audience.
Ehh, that's meaningless. It's every politician's goal eventually. Even that of dictators. It's the other goals and the means to get there that are far more important.
It's 23,5% - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen_(stad)
They don't. Most of the immigrants voted for PVDA and Groen.
"Importing" is a pretty awful term here. Often used by anti immigration nationalists. It's not "importing" because immigrants are almost exclusively migrating by themselves nowadays. We are not asking them to come work in our country like we did with in the past.
Tegenwoordig heeft bijna de helft van de populatie in Antwerpen een migratieachtergrond. De stad telt ten minste 166 verschillende nationaliteiten, wat de variatie weergeeft van de migrantengroepen in Antwerpen. De grootste groepen met een migratieachtergrond zijn afkomstig uit Marokko, Nederland, Turkije en Polen.
https://bamproject.eu/nl/steden/antwerpen#%3A%7E%3Atext=Tegenwoordig+heeft+bijna+de+helft%2C%2C+Nederland%2C+Turkije+en+Polen.
Achtergrond, niet gewoon eerste generatie. Trouwens, een kwart van de bevolking geboren buiten het land? Dat is bijna Zwitserland.
It's true that we're not actually importing people, we don't have to. They come themselves. Through family reunification mostly. Which is amazing, as they already have to have decent income and sufficient housing in order to do so. So yeah, probably the wrong word.
Okay.. maybe I'm just doing a bad job here and you can do it better than me. We both don't vote for Bart de Wever, our most popular politician.
What are the good things about him? Why does the majority of our region vote for him?
Also, I do view a median net wealth of 250k euros wealthy. You can move to Indonesia and live like those "elites". A house in Indonesia costs 25k euros. The cost of living is quite low, you can definitely cover it with passive income.
But, perhaps, they'll do a revolution and guillotine you. Who knows
Oh you said background, I misunderstood. Well we've been a "mengelpot" for decades.
The good thing used to be that when he switched from VB to NVA he dropped all the racist bullshit. He seemed to start accepting all the different people. trying to get everybody living and working together and that everybody was happy. He also is the self-proclaimed victim of drug violence because of him "trying to protect the people from all the drug problems".
But it's all false. For the people that do their research and don't just listen to the media, it seems that was all a ruse to get to power. He only played the cards that would make him the most popular. As I said, NVA has been the party of "vriendjespolitiek", and is silently racist and in it for the money. They portray the image of the quality Flemish person and get their votes that way. Yet when you look into budget spending, you'll see NVA mayors and party members in all the companies and boards that get funding. Quality Flemish my ass. Being all nice to the people of the community only to take its money.
For the drug stuff. The Belgians are actually very responsible drug users. They keep bringing up the sewer water of Antwerp as a statistic for drug problems, but then neglect the fact that Antwerp has far less drug problems than other cities. (Most of it isn't even the cocaine from the sewers they keep rambling about). They know damn right what gangs are active and who every player is, yet let them battle it out for what reason exactly? So he can be the guy that is on the front line of this "war". And the people eat it up.
There are many other things. But those are his biggest wins. Plus there are also many people who vote NVA because they love being Flemish but can't call themselves racist.
That's not what I meant with being rich.
"Bart De Wever was not a member of the Vlaams Blok. He was critical of the party and its successor, Vlaams Belang, and has stated that he resisted offers to join the Vlaams Blok. Instead, he began his political career with the Volksunie party and later became a founding member of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)."
What exactly do you mean with "VB to NVA".
If Bart de Wever was really into VB, then he would simply form a coalition with VB.
Aight. From r/Belgium2, which probably are major NVA voters. I'd gather that the main reasons would be: lower government spending (hello, Putin and Trump). Putting more people to work, by activating people that are long term sick while able to work. Activating people that are long term unemployed. Delaying retirement. Reducing taxes on working people so that the gap between working and not working becomes larger. Economic investments.
The majority of his voters are quite upset bout the capital gains tax that my vote has brought upon them. Since they view it as an extra tax on middle class. (It isn't, just sell 10k+index capital gains per year).
Nva also wants to reduce or even abolish inheritance tax. With a median net wealth of 250k euros PER ADULT. That is quite desirable. Within an aging population. Let's say every child gets about 350k euros in inheritance. If they are dummies and don't gift it properly then they pay 40k euros in inheritance taxes. (60k if it comes from one single parent, so let's say 40k).
It is mostly the middle class that votes for nva, for economic reasons, which is why they are so large.
I would like to see some dirt on them though. And any other Belgian political party. Always fun to see :)
They all probably are filling their own pockets one way or another, funny that le Pen fucked up big time for a mere 4-5 million euros of expense savings in 12 years time.
Oh my. For as long as I remember I thought it was VB and not VU. I remember him being a racist cuck when he was still fat. I guess that's why I remember him being with VB for some reason.
NVA is better than VB. So there's that at least.
Yes these reasons are correct. I thought you meant why people voted for BDW specifically.
I however see almost all of those reasons as pure class welfare. They know how to play this game.
For privacy reasons I will not share most of the dirt I found, as most of it relates to the municipalities I lived at. But I found a lot of weird subsidies whenever NVA is in power using the subsidy registry: https://subsidieregister.vlaanderen.be/ords/xxsr/r/subsidieregister/home
Big cities are hard to look trough, but smaller municipalities are much easier. Look for wherever a LOT of money goes into megaprojects. Even if they seem altruistic in nature. Look up BTW numbers of these megaprojects and figure out who is on the board. 9 out of 10 there will be NVA party members on the board in NVA led municipalities. Compare this to municipalities with mayors of more "left" parties and you'll find that NVA really likes to have their members in all of these boards. Who would have guessed.
The BTW register also allows you to find a lot of loopholes (achterpoortjes) that are being abused. The last one I looked into was the Zoo of Antwerp. There are 2 legal Zoos of Antwerp. 1 to receive non-profit subsidies to run the whole goddamn park. The other one is a for profit that is raking in millions of euros in profits. Go figure.
Politicians can't have too much money or it would be extremely suspicious. If you're going to commit fraud as a politician you should set up some schemes while in office like injecting yourself into the companies that you got the government to pay for. Then slowly disappear from the stage after your time and start slowly reaping in the profits. Trying to actively defraud the government is not allowed. But being a classy Belgian who just did their country/municipality a favor with "innovations" and "cultural projects" and that they got "lucky that it somehow started making money" is just perfectly fine. What a joke.