Belgian Election thread !

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Yup, won't go but that'd the ideal. But a coalition without PS but with the CD&V is absolutely possible. the PS just really needs to reflect on themselves and hopefully like doc says get a new generation of more realistic party members. The only reason I don't like the CD&V in is mostly the NVA. I don't have this issue this much with Spirit as they seem more realistic and the SPa doesn't seem to listen that much to them as the CD&V does with the NVA.

I agree on the PS-part, they really need an 'opositionbath', but the chance they will is zero. If SPa goes into a goverment, so goes the PS. I don't have the feeling the CD&V listens to NVA. They clearly showed them who's in charge when Dedecker tried to join. It's obviously they don't need NVA, but NVA does need them. And Spirit, again I never saw the use of this party. Van Bellinghen came to debate, but all he could tell us is that they didn't really have a strategy and were more of a 'zweeppartij'.

Personally I don't think Leterme's that good really. I think there are a few CD&V'ers who are better. Leterme just plays the media to well. Have you seen the debate last saturday (or was it sunday?), he almost never responded to the questions he was asked. He can talk a lot and say some numbers, but real arguments that actually make sense. Only a few. The reasons he stands out is that he's one of the few politicians left who can talk. Only a few others still are good speakers, like the top of the VB. I can't say much good about them but if there's one thing; Filip and Frank and a few others can talk.

I consider Leterme and some other CD&V-politicians among the best we have atm. Peeters, De Crem, Van Deurzen en Van Parys are capable politicians imo. As for the other parties, they have some good politicians, but sometimes I wonder how some got their ministerposts?
And VB's lucky they have 3 real politicians (DW, Annemans, Van Hecke)

I'm for the abolition of Nuclear power (except for future versions that are really clean, nuclear fusion for example (if that ever succeeds))
And I'm for trying to get people to use less energy and stuff.
I mean every day countless of ships and trains transport nuclear waist. In the seas near Russia is already tons and tons of nuclear waist in barrels in the sea. Oilships sink and leak oil regulary, if the same things start to happen with nuclear waist. I don't know how many ships transport waist to Japan.

I have no objection to clean nuclear energy, but fusion's going to take quite a while, and we don't have any alternatives at the moment. Everything Groen! or SPa suggest , must end by importing expensive nuclear power from France, or building/using more fossile fuels. And those are more polluting to the world than the small amount of nuclear waste that we can safely store or with new reactors even use.

Groen! should be ruling Belgium and stuff, but it should be something that stays and remains to help us think about it.

I've always found it a bad idea for idealists to run a country. They might have a vision, but lack the capability to make it work.