@Monique Van Hooreweder - he was a German prince (a Coburg, uncle of Queen Victoria) who was the widower of Princess Charlotte who was the heir to the British throne but who died in childbirth. The next in line turned out to be young princess Victoria who would become queen years later.
Belgium is not a "nation" except in the very loosest sense of the term, i.e. if we make it synonymous with "state", in which case the word nation itself becomes redundant. Belgium is a construct of two distinct nations into one state. Farage is right and the guardian by attempting ro take him out of context to male him look foolosh just shows its own ignorance. As usual.
Flanders and Wallonia dosen't hate each other. They have a goverment, a royal family, a captial and some common cultures. So what's the problem with division of regions? I can tell you that here in Denmark we are also divided in regions with different accents.
Not really intense is it. It's not like if you go to a different part of UK u are treated any differently. It's more friendly competition in sports and the like. Like idk which you are from but whenever I've been to another part of the UK ive never experienced "hatred" towards me. Some light piss taking at most
@@sifuhotman1300or reunification with the Netherlands which is what should happen. The Luxembourg region of Belgium should reunite with the country of Luxembourg and then the rest of Walloonia can either Dutchify or join the French.
@@Loostyc There was empires though, which all the nations were made from. The heritage of the people is still there, it's just a different name. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have any pride in your country. Nations have existed far before the 18th century too, so that's totally wrong.
@@hiddenknowledge2012 People in these empires didn't have national consciouscness though. Nations did appear in the modern era. National groups of people existed long before but they are something entirely different.
A nation exists wherever a people does. England, as the name suggests, is the land of the Anglo-Saxons. It has existed for as long as our people have. There is no Belgian people.
Ireland isn't part of the UK and Scotland voluntarily signed the 1707 Act of Union. In fact, Scotland wanted it even more than we did because they bankrupted themselves with failed colonial expeditions. We've been unified for over 300 years, and before that we shared a monarch. England and Scotland have fought countless wars together and built the biggest Empire the world has ever seen together. Today, we share a language, a culture and Lowland Scots and English people are genetically identical. Also, most Scots want to remain part of the UK. The only Scots who want to leave the UK are Leftists - and the only reason they want to leave the UK is so they can join the EU. The SNP is not a nationalist party at all, it's a far-left socialist party. Real Patriotic Scots, Scots who are actual Nationalists, want to remain part of the UK.
So there we have from Mr Faredge's own lips that he is in favour of Scottish independence, the independence of Wales & the reunification of Ireland. At last, there will be four nation states in these islands. Never, ever thought I'd agree with this fella.
Despite the irony, he is right. Belgium is basically country which used to be part of the Netherlands, half of it speaks French and was created by the British as a "buffer state" between France and Prussia/Germany. And it was really a buffer state, Germany went through Belgium every time they wanted to invade France. The word "Belgium" comes from a Roman province named after the people who inhabited that region. It has the same etymology as the Dutch word "verbolgen," which can be translated to "angry." Yeah, the Belgians are quite angry at each other. :)
I'm afraid you're quite disconnected from reality. First of all, all nations are created at some point, and eventually disappear at another. Belgium was created in 1830, almost 200 years ago, far more than most nations in the world. No country has ever risen from ashes from a unity that tied the people together: the unity was built through generations of people living under a stable and common banner. Moreover, the borders of a nation were never clearly defined. But the spans are so big in comparison to human life that it is tempting to believe that "it is as it should be" Also your vision of history is poor and so incomplete First and foremost, within the Holy Germanic Empire (or Holy Roman Empire, in english), one must make the distinction between the "spanish netherlands" Spaanse Nederlanden/Pays-Bas espagnols, which for a while contained the netherlands, parts of actual belgium, and luxembourg (but someone you believe luxembourg is a nation, though ) and netherlands as we know it now. The capital was Brussels (so then, isn't netherlands part of old belgium according to your logic?) They weren't united by brotherhood or an abstract ideal of nations, (most were illiterate and were just obeying their landlords), but they got united by the dinasty of Hasbourg, which federated (again, not a nation) through MARRIAGE the different provinces of the region. During that time, pretty much all of what's above france and germany - the latter included - was a part of the Holy Germanic Empire, and there were only states, "provinces" you could say, governed by a member of the high clergy. It is the case of "Liège", one of Belgium's current french province, which for 9 centuries was apart of the HGE (netherlands didn't even exist as a nation!) before the French revolution when it became part of france. It had always spoken french as a part of the HGE for a millenia, and no one questioned it despite that? Then, belgian revolution in 1830 in brussels, they take their independance, and, mainly due to Antwerp/Anvers and Liège/Luik it became the second nation in terms of industrial developpment during the revolution of the same name. Belgium is as much a nation as england, france, the united states, netherlands, korea, viet-nam or kenya, and yes, like any another nation, the unity it implies is fragile and ephemerary. Don't slaughter the complexity of history with such a naïve comprehension of what a "nation" is. Prussia was one the strongest nation of their time, and look now, would you say lituania and poland (which was split between russia, prussia and the SPANISH NETHERLANDS you were referring to are not nations? Would you say that Kaliningrad, formerly prussian, is not russian?
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
@@marcysss93 so what? They voted stay in UK and this must mean honoring any UK national results and not use Brexit as excuse to hold another scottish referendum 5 yeats later.
SurvivorIceland Yeah I think the people of Scotland might have something to say about that. Like that they want a chance to express their opinion again after the country they’re a part of makes the biggest constitutional change in half a century. It’s not, “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further”.
@@SurvivorIce so what? Conscious of the fact that Scotland is vastly pro EU during the referendum the British gov made it clear that in case of independence they would veto Scottish entry into the EU, and what happens one year later? We'll see how the next referendum pans out
@Luís Filipe Andrade It is. It doesn't matter on what it is based , it still an abstract community . It is something that people imagine exists much like a fictional story . Nation is an imaginary order.
Semka7a so if something is abstract its imaginary? Social hierarchies are abstract and so is culture but neither are imaginary but language is more concrete as a unifying characteristic of a nation
@Luís Filipe Andrade You could argue that their are no ethnic groups at all. Those "groups" always overlapped, and we all come from the same people. The concept of nations started getting popular around the 18th and 19th century; before that nationalities didn't exist.
@Luís Filipe Andrade My dude, nation is a construct and a pretty new one, it doesn't matter what they share(language is also a construct and changes based on external factors), the concept of a nation did not always exist and flourished in the 19-20th century. People in the past did not care about nation, there were only two things, barbarians and us, empires were multicultural and the only thing that mattered was if you were a citizen. Greeks may have spoken the same base language and believed in the same religion but they were different tribes, with different cultures and political systems and only considered themselves Hellenes in the Persian invasion because it was practical. They still hated each other and had many civil wars, sometimes because they wanted to keep the independence of the city states. We may be both right wingers and have similar beliefs my dude, that doesn't mean that "the right" is not a social construct
@@kruotube Sorry, wrong. At least 40% of modern english are words originating from french (and yes, you can search studies on that if you are inclined to do so). french is a roman language (roman languages are spoken in france, spain and italy predominantly) and has few words from non-roman languages.
@@Elijah-cy9doThere isn't a unified parliament. There are Scottish Welsh northern ire English parliaments. The only difference being that there is one king
@rtavan no such thing as an English parliament. While Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish Parliaments/assemblies are just devolved institutions running on power given by Westminster. Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish Parliaments only came to existence in the late 1990s
Ngongo, I assure you, no Belgian feelings were hurt during this speech. Farage is not exactly breaking new ground. But it's interesting to see if the UK falls apart before Belgium does.
Ngongo Gongo Nothing he has said was true here. ALL nations are artificial creations, no it wasn't the brits who did that but he is trying to appeal to nationalists who are under the impression the UK gets blamed for stuff it didn't do.
R we gonna ignore that their tension is literally almost non existent and him saying that it’s not a nation because a French and Dutch side is literally just to divert the situation he tumbled up???
@@lander681 That's indeed a lot, but I checked, and recently, well, four years ago, in 2020, 22% of Flanders was even for the return to an unitary state...
Leigh Pemberton Mostly people with italian acestry. Also a bit of Poles and today more and more Turks and morrocons. With the war in the middle east, a couple of thousand syrians and afgans also.
You do know that even though the UK were leaving the eu, it was still forced to take part in the eu elections. The UK didn't see the point and refused to name an eu commissioner, the eu then fined the UK for not conforming to its idiocy. voting in something you just voted to leave.
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
"We want to live in nation states, not false artificial creations" ... umm, Nigel? That's like saying "I want to live in London, not the capital of the UK"!
Nige relatively accurately describes Belgium, but the same goes for the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, which are all ancient nation states in Europe. Then globally, China, Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia etc are all comprised in the way that Farage describes Belgium.
Actually there are 6 governments in Belgium : 1 federal 3 regional (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) 2 communities (German and French, the Flemish one merged with the regional government of Flanders)
@@JamesBurdon-gu5yunations are a artificial construct that humanity created to separate themselves through shared beliefs, values, and identities from other humans. Nations are never natural and your country certainly didn't exist on day one.
How? He’s laughing at Belgium for being a divided country, when it was the British who created Belgium as a nation in the first place. Not to mention that Great Britain is one of the most divided countries in Europe lol.
Oh, the irony of having Napoleon as your avatar. The same Napoleon who got beaten by an army made of up by a big contingent of Dutch and Belgians at Waterloo. Farage forgot that it seems. So did our boi Napoleon here
Belgium fought for it's own independence. I don't get this 'British creation' aspect of it. The French defended our independence in 1831 and the Brits just recognized the country. They created nothing....
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
+it's a me Mario. appeasement never works, ask Neville Chamberlain how that went. when will europe learn? appeasement is how you got ww2. giving iran what they want isn't going to make them stop their nuke project. they. hate. you. they want you and me everyone like us DEAD understand? has thousands of years of war against invading muslims taught europe nothing? i guess not. oh and btw, i'm canadian, not american. Reagan was right "peace through strength" is the way. .
Pfft. I live in Belgium and feel like a Belgian. Just because you don't speak the same language doesn't mean you can't live together. Look at the Scottish and English. Both different people, and yet they form a nation together. If we start naming all peoples and ethnic groups, then half of the world's countries would be split!
@@Drugov78 I think Farage did see a few years further and what Brexit would cause, an opportunity to enrich himself. Anything else that would happen was just collateral damage.
@@frederickcubbins Ireland was united all the way up until 1920. Whether it was under British rule or not is not the point. Ireland was a single entity until home rule was granted to all but 6 counties in the north. As for reunification, there is definitely a growing sentiment amongst the Northern Irish since their views on Brexit have been completely ignored and feel that they are just bargaining chips in the UKs quest for self destruction.
This is stupid you cant just claim Belgium is not a nation it has a prime minister, a government, a capital city, a system of law, a national anthem ALL THE COMPONENTS OF A COUNTRY. And saying that Belgium is divided in regards to Flanders and Wallonia, well you could argue the same for England and Scotland.
Mario French and Dutch speaking Belgians don’t hate each other. The main problem is that the Flemish region being economically stronger, the Flemish people are unhappy with their region financially helping Wallonia. Flemish and Walloon people that live close to each other get along well of course, why wouldn’t they ? And of course there will always be some who don’t like the others but personally I think that is sad.
With that logic, you could call the EU a country, are you ready to sacrifice your national identity for a European one? I'm Flemish and it doesn't mather to me that I have an ID that says different.
The UK is also not a nation, it is composed of various nations/ethnicities: English, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, Manx, Irish and Shetlanders. Unfortunately these nations are losing their cultures and being dissolved, some already lost their original language, like the Shetlanders (Norn). The same is happening with the nations of Spain and some other European countries. In any case, this is not the worse that is happening; Europeans around the world are disappearing and dissolving in a globalized society.
I love so much non-Belgians saying Belgium isnt a nation. Completely ignoring that Belgium got its indepence from the Netherlands with Mostly french help. Afterwards the Brits helped us too. Also How they ignore That back in WW1 every Belgian, french or dutch, would proudly wave our tricolore and shout VIVE La Belgique or Leve België.
Well I am a flemish as well and the sentiment of Flemish people after the elections this sunday couldn't be filled with anger any more then it is now. Belgium isn't a nation, we are not one people. In 1906 a Walloon politician said, "Sire, Il y a en Belgique de Wallons et des Flamands, il n y'a pas de Belges." translated, "Your Majesty(the king), In Belgium there are Walloons and Flemings. There are no Belgians." South of the country, not our people, not our culture, not our ideology. Signed a displeased Fleming. Zuiden van het land, niet ons volk, niet onze cultuur, niet onze ideologie. Gesigneerd een misnoegde Vlaming. Sud du pays, pas notre peuple, pas notre culture, pas notre idéologie. Signé un Flamand mécontent.
One which two members both Northern Ireland and Scotland supported remain yet the UK still left. Minorities in the UK have frequently been shafted as far back as before the union.
Surely one could say that Britain isn’t a nation as there are 4 parts to it which despite all speaking English technically have different languages and hate each other
Belgium is not a nation? Same is the case for the "United" Kingdom: Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales don't belong to England either, and don't form a cohesive union at all. So what's his point?
That's why we have our own national football teams, rugby teams etc. We are four nations within one sovereign state. Where is your Walloon football team?
Nigel goes of the far end here although criticism to Belgiums leadership is correct. Because 'leadership' hasn't been there in the form of a government for over the last 500 days!
it wont be independence though will it, you will have to abide by EU rulings, EU Law, EU courts and also be told who to trade with and not to, and also be told in what people to have in as well, also will have to abide to European Elections in which you will have no control over, i mean did you vote for the leading European party of course you didnt, no one did because it is done all in house, and also did you know the European Parliment moves inbetween 3 major cities in France, Germany and Belgium and if you call that "independence" then you need to look that word up because that doesnt sound like independence to me
Henry Cowboy: I wish you all the luck you can get in achieving independence. Why don't you just trigger the equivalent of Article 50......oh wait, the English didn't allow that provision when they created their little expanded kingdom. If they want sovereignty and independence so much, why didn't the English just declare themselves independent from the UK. That would have automatically evicted them from the EU. Of course, they want to leave one union that they can't control but are very reluctant to break up the union that they created and still control. I'm fed up with this stupid union on the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is high time the union rag was thrown into the dustbin of history!
gee thanks for that and ermmm what makes you think that i am "English" is it my name Morrison, because i can change if you want me to. i can change it to Donnelly, Mclintock, Hughes, Stewart (Stuart), O'Kane, Bruce, Mclindoe which ever one you want
@@andrewjones-productions Exactly, they love to shout about democracy but when it comes to giving up control of countries within their rule. It's suddenly blasphemy.
I am a bit puzzled here. If Belgium is not a nation, according to mr. Farage, then why did England declare war on Germany in 1914? In one sentence he has stated that England is responsible for the outbreak of the Great War.
'We want to live in nation states not artificial creations' yes let me just check on my crop of naturally occurring nations, oooooo the English are coming along nicely, and it only took a couple hundred years of warring!
The UK is pretty homogeneous... and sure, the Welsh, Scots, and Irish should have their own sovereign nations too. What's wrong with being a nationalist, besides the ignorant leftist rhetoric about it being extremist or racist??
@@willyoujustrelax8236 That depends on what form it takes. In Wales, it has traditionally been to describe people who are in favour of self-determination. In that respect, I would be described as a nationalist. However, the likes of Farage border on the type of nationalist that is far right and has intentions of restricting others and seeing themselves as somehow superior. He has made it clear that he wishes to dissolve the Welsh Assembly and even let the Welsh language die. Same word - huge difference. As for your comment suggesting that the UK is 'homogenous' suggest strongly that you have very little understanding of Welsh culture which is entirely different even though lifestyles may appear to be much the same. We may be a small country, but we are just as valid and are unique in our way.
Andrew Jones Productions I’d be very interested to hear where you got this information about Farage wanting to stop the Welsh language. Any chance of a reference as I’m studying classical European languages and the resurgence in languages that nation states have previously banned? History would definitely suggest tyranny starts with cultural uniformity and the repression of language & folk traditions.
He's right, Belgium isn't really a country but a collection of smaller and culturally different countries bound together in a Union under a monarchy from a cadet branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that changed its name to sound less German and more local after WW1. Were as the UK is completely different.
Joke: Belgium should be divided or partitioned into 4 zones, Wallonia to France, Flanders to Holland, Brussels to the EU and German speaking parts of Belgium in its east to Germany. No joke: Belgium doesn't have its own language (French from France, Dutch from Holland and German from Germany).
a lot like switzerland then. the 3 french, german & italian speaking parts could easily be gifted to their apropriate neighbouring countries respectively
He’s taking the Micky out of the EU how can you not see that? 😂 He’s using the fact Belgium was made by a bunch of elites from different countries for geopolitical gains as a gag
@@morikibbutz2734 Lost 5%, lol no longer in 15% of the debt off the eu`s extreme borrowing. keep the 5% and all the marxist eu`s debt. goof riddance to the eu dictatorship
The thing Farage forgot to add is that his 20th century historic hero overrun Belgium in a few days and forced the British to withdraw to France. Belgium pilots came to Britain and flew with the RAF and were decorated for bravery and many lost their lives, not bad for a country that is not a nation. Farage never supported British interests in his entire period as a MEP. But years earlier brave young Belgium men came and fought along side us in WW2, but we know Farage would probably run rather than fight for Britain, probably because he would have had more sympathy for the enemy, then and now (Russia) lots of cash splashed by Putin to this side of our politics.
More education of the ignorant. The United Kingdom is a nation formed from the 4 Kingdoms of Scotland Norther Ireland , Wales and England, the 4 kingdoms are 4 ``countries`` that make up the UK ``nation``.Go read a dictionary once in a while.
Not all ethnic differences should be decisive. But we Flemish don't speak French, are (slightly) different ethnically, we don't share idols (authors, artists, celebs) and I don't have a single Walloon Freind. I read Flemish papers, I take the Flemish public transport and look to Flemish TV. I speak a different language, I learn others things in school and when I cross the language border I feel in an other country. There is no Belgian identity, and Flanders could become a nation itself. I think this articulates what a lot of Flemish people think.
That would have been a nice speech in your British Parliament in 1914, maybe avoiding a world war or two. A victory for the Kaiser Wilhelm and Deutschland was a victory for peace!
While he's right about the artifialness, by that line of thinking the US isn't a country either, nor is Canada, France, Spain, Russia, China, Nigeria, India or even the UK. So maybe not the best way to define a country after all?
Not that I support Farage but to be fair the UK is a lot more organic than Belgium which was specifically set up less than 200 years ago to restrain the French.
No it wasnt. the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (largely corresponding with the current Benelux) was created by the European powers in the restauration after the Napoleonic Wars. Belgium gained independence itself, with some military help from France and the UK as mediator. The UK did not create Belgium, Belgium did.
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
But this man kinda got a point. Belgium has, with the exception of the king and the football team, no national values or culture. A man from Flanders once was asked how you interact with Wallonians and he just said: Well we just don't talk to each other. Is that really a solution? Belgium really should seperate
Belgium - "a country invented by the British to annoy the French" Charles de Gaulle.
Leopold I was an English widower of the British princess Mathilda wasn't he???
@Monique Van Hooreweder - he was a German prince (a Coburg, uncle of Queen Victoria) who was the widower of Princess Charlotte who was the heir to the British throne but who died in childbirth. The next in line turned out to be young princess Victoria who would become queen years later.
@@moniquevanhooreweder6456 the monarchies are in a world of their own. They do not care a fig peoples worries.
Well without the French Belgium wouldn't have been there at all.
Belgium is not a "nation" except in the very loosest sense of the term, i.e. if we make it synonymous with "state", in which case the word nation itself becomes redundant.
Belgium is a construct of two distinct nations into one state.
Farage is right and the guardian by attempting ro take him out of context to male him look foolosh just shows its own ignorance.
As usual.
"Belgium is not a nation, its an artificial creation"
Hey, that rhymes!
It sounds like a rap
Krusty Krabs is unfair
Mr. Krabs is in there
Standing at the concession
Planning his oppression!
All nations are artificial creations. There are no nations in the natural world.
@@andreperusso China
Ice is back with his brand new invention
Two halves of the country that dislike each other intensely? Sounds familiar
I wonder who
*Bagpipes Play in the background*
Korea?
Remembers Scotland in the back of his head
Flanders and Wallonia dosen't hate each other. They have a goverment, a royal family, a captial and some common cultures. So what's the problem with division of regions? I can tell you that here in Denmark we are also divided in regions with different accents.
@@davidcozmostendevadkjr8954 its just u have no mational identity, no core values u arent really a country
Isn’t the UK an artificial construction? _Four_ separate parts that speak different languages and intensely dislike each other.
Speakn diffrent languages. What are you chatting?
Not really intense is it. It's not like if you go to a different part of UK u are treated any differently. It's more friendly competition in sports and the like. Like idk which you are from but whenever I've been to another part of the UK ive never experienced "hatred" towards me. Some light piss taking at most
@Conor Quinn wasnt disagreeing with that, I don't like or agree with farrage, just disagreeing with this man. Fair enough if you don't like UK
Yes but not artificial.
@@ghostlierExpert And you don't like Farage because???
"Belgium is a not a nation its an artificial creation"
Thats a hard bar ngl
I live in Belgium and he's right.
Freedom for Flanders ASAP!
Free the North!
@@sifuhotman1300or reunification with the Netherlands which is what should happen. The Luxembourg region of Belgium should reunite with the country of Luxembourg and then the rest of Walloonia can either Dutchify or join the French.
Yeah, its amazing that someone from the UK doesnt see how hypocritical that is.
@@Calle28 It isn't
At least Belgium has one football team rather than having 4
Because they are aware UNITED Kingdom is a union of 4 nations
geminix365 I know, I only mentioned it because that is exactly what he criticised Belgium for
Well said!!
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@@jmasters7515 but Belgium pretends to be a nation...
Doesn't he realise that every nation is an artificial construct?
Please explain your insanity.
@@wanderer1955 nations were created in the late 18th and 19th century. Before that we can't really talk of nations.
@@Loostyc There was empires though, which all the nations were made from. The heritage of the people is still there, it's just a different name. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have any pride in your country. Nations have existed far before the 18th century too, so that's totally wrong.
@@hiddenknowledge2012 People in these empires didn't have national consciouscness though. Nations did appear in the modern era. National groups of people existed long before but they are something entirely different.
A nation exists wherever a people does. England, as the name suggests, is the land of the Anglo-Saxons. It has existed for as long as our people have. There is no Belgian people.
Being a Belgian myself, Nigel Farage is saying aloud what I think but cannot say aloud without ostracism.
Are you from Wallonia or Flanders
but you are saynig this and there is no ostracism so what do u mean
@@Unity_Workhe means off line in person .
Belgium is composed of 2 nations: Dutch and French.
@@neverlookback1244 ProductofWit he is flanders extrem right !!!
Let's ask Ireland and Scotland about how natural the UK is
Ireland isn't part of the UK and Scotland voluntarily signed the 1707 Act of Union. In fact, Scotland wanted it even more than we did because they bankrupted themselves with failed colonial expeditions.
We've been unified for over 300 years, and before that we shared a monarch. England and Scotland have fought countless wars together and built the biggest Empire the world has ever seen together.
Today, we share a language, a culture and Lowland Scots and English people are genetically identical. Also, most Scots want to remain part of the UK. The only Scots who want to leave the UK are Leftists - and the only reason they want to leave the UK is so they can join the EU. The SNP is not a nationalist party at all, it's a far-left socialist party. Real Patriotic Scots, Scots who are actual Nationalists, want to remain part of the UK.
The UK is an artificial creation.
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@@Dushmann_ absolutely
@@Dushmann_ Biggest load of nonsense I've ever heard. You, sir, are a fantasist.
So there we have from Mr Faredge's own lips that he is in favour of Scottish independence, the independence of Wales & the reunification of Ireland. At last, there will be four nation states in these islands.
Never, ever thought I'd agree with this fella.
Why would you want that
Please tell me what part of that clip was the bit where he mentions Scotland Wales and Ireland.
@Conor Quinn let's hope they do.
You wern't listening. He a no point said he was 'in favour of it' he just said 'it was'.
@@terrypietru8012 Do you actually understand English?
Despite the irony, he is right.
Belgium is basically country which used to be part of the Netherlands, half of it speaks French and was created by the British as a "buffer state" between France and Prussia/Germany. And it was really a buffer state, Germany went through Belgium every time they wanted to invade France.
The word "Belgium" comes from a Roman province named after the people who inhabited that region. It has the same etymology as the Dutch word "verbolgen," which can be translated to "angry." Yeah, the Belgians are quite angry at each other. :)
" let me tell you about your country"
Lol stupid anglo
Surely it was named of the 'celtic' Belgia tribe that originate from there (and populated southern england in the 1000c BC
I'm afraid you're quite disconnected from reality. First of all, all nations are created at some point, and eventually disappear at another. Belgium was created in 1830, almost 200 years ago, far more than most nations in the world. No country has ever risen from ashes from a unity that tied the people together: the unity was built through generations of people living under a stable and common banner.
Moreover, the borders of a nation were never clearly defined. But the spans are so big in comparison to human life that it is tempting to believe that "it is as it should be"
Also your vision of history is poor and so incomplete
First and foremost, within the Holy Germanic Empire (or Holy Roman Empire, in english), one must make the distinction between the "spanish netherlands" Spaanse Nederlanden/Pays-Bas espagnols, which for a while contained the netherlands, parts of actual belgium, and luxembourg (but someone you believe luxembourg is a nation, though ) and netherlands as we know it now. The capital was Brussels (so then, isn't netherlands part of old belgium according to your logic?)
They weren't united by brotherhood or an abstract ideal of nations, (most were illiterate and were just obeying their landlords), but they got united by the dinasty of Hasbourg, which federated (again, not a nation) through MARRIAGE the different provinces of the region.
During that time, pretty much all of what's above france and germany - the latter included - was a part of the Holy Germanic Empire, and there were only states, "provinces" you could say, governed by a member of the high clergy. It is the case of "Liège", one of Belgium's current french province, which for 9 centuries was apart of the HGE (netherlands didn't even exist as a nation!) before the French revolution when it became part of france. It had always spoken french as a part of the HGE for a millenia, and no one questioned it despite that?
Then, belgian revolution in 1830 in brussels, they take their independance, and, mainly due to Antwerp/Anvers and Liège/Luik it became the second nation in terms of industrial developpment during the revolution of the same name.
Belgium is as much a nation as england, france, the united states, netherlands, korea, viet-nam or kenya, and yes, like any another nation, the unity it implies is fragile and ephemerary. Don't slaughter the complexity of history with such a naïve comprehension of what a "nation" is.
Prussia was one the strongest nation of their time, and look now, would you say lituania and poland (which was split between russia, prussia and the SPANISH NETHERLANDS you were referring to are not nations? Would you say that Kaliningrad, formerly prussian, is not russian?
@@butwhoasked1821Belgium Ultranationalist moment
@@enthusiastisch1922 What a witty answer! The other guy does a historical deep dive, you come up with 30 characters. WONDER WHO IS MORE BELIEVABLE
As soon as Farage mentions ”look at the election results” the guy in the back stopped laughing😂
Now let’s look at the results lol a mess
@@JL_Lux COVID
@@JL_Lux Elaborate
Guy in the back is from Farage's own party
@@Jimmy-me3fe Welsh, then UKIP, later Brexit Party.
I love Nigel’s courage under withering fire. The guy has a spine of steel.
He got caught on misusing funds. Way to choose your role model :-)
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation
UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
Yeah a spine of steel and a brain the size of a point of a pin.
what a Plonker !
He admits that his wife left him because of the pressure of his political work.
0:58 foreshadowing...
As a Belgian is can confirm he's right.
Something tells me you don't even live close to the language barrier and thus have no idea about actual communautairy issues at all
ma gast
True
As Belgian? Do you mean 'as Flemish' or 'as Walloon'?
nederlander hier? dus split luxemburg 50/50?
But Scotland can't leave its artificial creation.
They voted stay couple years ago.
@@SurvivorIce yeah that was before brexit
@@marcysss93 so what? They voted stay in UK and this must mean honoring any UK national results and not use Brexit as excuse to hold another scottish referendum 5 yeats later.
SurvivorIceland Yeah I think the people of Scotland might have something to say about that. Like that they want a chance to express their opinion again after the country they’re a part of makes the biggest constitutional change in half a century. It’s not, “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further”.
@@SurvivorIce so what? Conscious of the fact that Scotland is vastly pro EU during the referendum the British gov made it clear that in case of independence they would veto Scottish entry into the EU, and what happens one year later? We'll see how the next referendum pans out
Could say the same thing for the United Kingdom
"We want to live in nation states, not false artificial creations."
WTH
Why do they accept the UK then? lol
UK is not a nation. It's a union.
England, Scotland, Wales and North-Ireland are nations in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a union. Belgium is a country but no nation.
no, because the UK isnt a country. Its a political union. read a book.
@@EthanfromEngland- a political union, I.e. a false artificial creation
Dude , every nation is artificial creation
@Luís Filipe Andrade It is. It doesn't matter on what it is based , it still an abstract community . It is something that people imagine exists much like a fictional story . Nation is an imaginary order.
Semka7a so if something is abstract its imaginary? Social hierarchies are abstract and so is culture but neither are imaginary but language is more concrete as a unifying characteristic of a nation
@Luís Filipe Andrade You could argue that their are no ethnic groups at all. Those "groups" always overlapped, and we all come from the same people.
The concept of nations started getting popular around the 18th and 19th century; before that nationalities didn't exist.
@Luís Filipe Andrade All of the things you listed are artificial creations. A nation is an artificial creation, that is that
@Luís Filipe Andrade My dude, nation is a construct and a pretty new one, it doesn't matter what they share(language is also a construct and changes based on external factors), the concept of a nation did not always exist and flourished in the 19-20th century. People in the past did not care about nation, there were only two things, barbarians and us, empires were multicultural and the only thing that mattered was if you were a citizen. Greeks may have spoken the same base language and believed in the same religion but they were different tribes, with different cultures and political systems and only considered themselves Hellenes in the Persian invasion because it was practical. They still hated each other and had many civil wars, sometimes because they wanted to keep the independence of the city states. We may be both right wingers and have similar beliefs my dude, that doesn't mean that "the right" is not a social construct
lmao what does Farage think about switzerland?
4 different languages
Probably doesn't think it's a nation
See USA
Hundreds of languages there
He thinks cheese
@@לעזאזלעםגוביידן no just English and some southern parts Spanish
@@joris8032 there's Cherokee and others as well
England, a country where french was the language spoken at courts for like 300 years and has more french words than old english words.
@@kruotube Sorry, wrong. At least 40% of modern english are words originating from french (and yes, you can search studies on that if you are inclined to do so). french is a roman language (roman languages are spoken in france, spain and italy predominantly) and has few words from non-roman languages.
Hush don't tell him.
@msmissy6888 euh no? Explain yourself then.
So we are all Roman?
@@greeneemanAlways have been.
If what he said is true then surely he wants to break up the UK? I thought not
The UK isn't a country. Its a political union so what's your point?
@@EthanfromEngland-what is the meaning of a country?
@@Elijah-cy9doThere isn't a unified parliament. There are Scottish Welsh northern ire English parliaments. The only difference being that there is one king
@rtavan no such thing as an English parliament. While Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish Parliaments/assemblies are just devolved institutions running on power given by Westminster. Scottish, Welsh and N. Irish Parliaments only came to existence in the late 1990s
Nigel tells the truth even if it hurts
Ngongo Gongo What about the £350 million for the NHS, When's that going to happen.
prat.
Ngongo, I assure you, no Belgian feelings were hurt during this speech. Farage is not exactly breaking new ground. But it's interesting to see if the UK falls apart before Belgium does.
Ngongo Gongo Nothing he has said was true here. ALL nations are artificial creations, no it wasn't the brits who did that but he is trying to appeal to nationalists who are under the impression the UK gets blamed for stuff it didn't do.
you obviously havent seen the record levels of corporate debt in Belgium
R we gonna ignore that their tension is literally almost non existent and him saying that it’s not a nation because a French and Dutch side is literally just to divert the situation he tumbled up???
Why would he. He is a gombeen man who was privately educated and a failed City banker.
We are not violent, but many of us Flemish want our independence.
@@lander681 many? Like 20%?
@@magicarpette450 Isn't that a lot?
@@lander681 That's indeed a lot, but I checked, and recently, well, four years ago, in 2020, 22% of Flanders was even for the return to an unitary state...
UK is also not a nation.
Yes, which is why it's called The United Kingdom.
As Kenny Everett once said .... Everybody knows where it is but nobody wants to go there.
scoppio07 How do you explain the 2 million immigrant people That came to live here?
@@s.v.o.579 African or European?
Leigh Pemberton Mostly people with italian acestry. Also a bit of Poles and today more and more Turks and morrocons. With the war in the middle east, a couple of thousand syrians and afgans also.
I’m from belgium and I approve this message
‘Enjoy the European election next year!’... ha ha ha... ironic.
"I'm MC doesn't know what irony is!"
Haha uk is out, how ironic
You do know that even though the UK were leaving the eu, it was still forced to take part in the eu elections. The UK didn't see the point and refused to name an eu commissioner, the eu then fined the UK for not conforming to its idiocy. voting in something you just voted to leave.
Such disrespect... And then, they will tell us that nationalism is not about hating other nations.
If only there were more Brits with his courage. Sadly, there is not...just cows following the other cows.
Indeed.
Nigel is a Russian fifth columnist you gammon.
I personally don’t agree with him.
you mean sheep?
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
Farage is the only person in that room that knows the definition of the word nation... Belgium is not a nation at all, it is a state
Free Flanders
Let's hear that definition!
"We want to live in nation states, not false artificial creations" ... umm, Nigel? That's like saying "I want to live in London, not the capital of the UK"!
London city state when?
Nige relatively accurately describes Belgium, but the same goes for the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, which are all ancient nation states in Europe. Then globally, China, Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia etc are all comprised in the way that Farage describes Belgium.
Actually there are 6 governments in Belgium :
1 federal
3 regional (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels)
2 communities (German and French, the Flemish one merged with the regional government of Flanders)
None of the countries you described were made as a geopolitical tool. Belgium should be part of the Dutch Republic/Netherlands.
No, China, Canada, USA and Australia are mostly homogenous speaking a common language and no hatred towards each other.
@@nuzayerov clearly you've never heard of Quebec
@@nuzayerovChina is Mandarin, Mongolian, Tibetan, Turk
I think he might be talking about his own nation
I'm English and I 100 percent agree
Nigel was correct and UK was not an artificial nation it was there from day one
Nah, both
@@JamesBurdon-gu5yunations are a artificial construct that humanity created to separate themselves through shared beliefs, values, and identities from other humans. Nations are never natural and your country certainly didn't exist on day one.
@@JamesBurdon-gu5yu Belgium was also there from day one.
Says sb from a country that literally consists of 4 parts, that dislike each other intensely...
Yes he is right
This man is living legend
How? He’s laughing at Belgium for being a divided country, when it was the British who created Belgium as a nation in the first place. Not to mention that Great Britain is one of the most divided countries in Europe lol.
Oh, the irony of having Napoleon as your avatar. The same Napoleon who got beaten by an army made of up by a big contingent of Dutch and Belgians at Waterloo. Farage forgot that it seems. So did our boi Napoleon here
I live in Belgium and the guy is 100 % correct
are you flemish or walloon?
@@maxrolland3148he is british
As a Dutchman. Belgium is indeed not a nation
first you're a turk not a dutchman and second any dutch opinion about anything but the roads is denied
@@pouletvert8707 I am nöt a Türk. I am very dütch.
Belgium fought for it's own independence. I don't get this 'British creation' aspect of it. The French defended our independence in 1831 and the Brits just recognized the country. They created nothing....
The UK is also not a nation.
Well no it isn't. It's a union of countries.
@@VoodooMadMike41 an union of countries where no one wants to be in ^^
@@Afura33Hated living in "uk" (england) as a belgian so yes i approve 👍
what about "United Kingdon" ever claimed otherwise?
@@SomeBelgianwamp wamp.
Coming in from America, BOG BLESS YOU, YOU Magnificent Brit
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
The Kingdom of Hawaii is an invaded Nation too.
+it's a me Mario. appeasement never works, ask Neville Chamberlain how that went. when will europe learn? appeasement is how you got ww2. giving iran what they want isn't going to make them stop their nuke project. they. hate. you. they want you and me everyone like us DEAD understand? has thousands of years of war against invading muslims taught europe nothing? i guess not. oh and btw, i'm canadian, not american. Reagan was right "peace through strength" is the way. .
He is right. Greetings from a German.
Pfft. I live in Belgium and feel like a Belgian. Just because you don't speak the same language doesn't mean you can't live together. Look at the Scottish and English. Both different people, and yet they form a nation together. If we start naming all peoples and ethnic groups, then half of the world's countries would be split!
@@kincaidwolf5184 They indeed don't have a seperate language. They have two namely scot and gaelic.
I am Flemish, not belgian.
@@ikporu Your id card says something different
Vlaanderen vrij aub!
@@sifuhotman1300 Nee danku ik heb liever dat den economie nog niet meer instort.
strange to hear that from a person whose country is pretty much itself an artificial construction
You talk a load of Bull, and sound very uneducated. Great Britain is not an artificial construction.
"Enjoy the European elections next year, they're going to be fun" Lord Farage could see into the future
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What a shame fartage couldn’t see a few years further heh ? How is it going now ？
@@Drugov78 I think Farage did see a few years further and what Brexit would cause, an opportunity to enrich himself. Anything else that would happen was just collateral damage.
and Luxembourg?
Wasn't their talk of another referendum for Scotlands independence and northern Irelands reunification with the Republic of Ireland?
@@frederickcubbins Ireland was united all the way up until 1920. Whether it was under British rule or not is not the point. Ireland was a single entity until home rule was granted to all but 6 counties in the north. As for reunification, there is definitely a growing sentiment amongst the Northern Irish since their views on Brexit have been completely ignored and feel that they are just bargaining chips in the UKs quest for self destruction.
@@rubeniscoolIreland was never United under British rule that's what all the rebellions were about
@@rubeniscoolself destruction?
Look at how many Remain lies came true?
Better growth than Germany.
You were lied to.
This is stupid you cant just claim Belgium is not a nation it has a prime minister, a government, a capital city, a system of law, a national anthem ALL THE COMPONENTS OF A COUNTRY. And saying that Belgium is divided in regards to Flanders and Wallonia, well you could argue the same for England and Scotland.
and Wales and Ireland
with English and Gaelic and a few other little Languages !
using his logic , Switzerland is also not a country
Mario French and Dutch speaking Belgians don’t hate each other. The main problem is that the Flemish region being economically stronger, the Flemish people are unhappy with their region financially helping Wallonia. Flemish and Walloon people that live close to each other get along well of course, why wouldn’t they ? And of course there will always be some who don’t like the others but personally I think that is sad.
belgium has no reason to exist
With that logic, you could call the EU a country, are you ready to sacrifice your national identity for a European one? I'm Flemish and it doesn't mather to me that I have an ID that says different.
bit ironic for a guy who has belgian ancestry
The only real honest voice in the room. :) A Legend of politics forever.
The UK is also not a nation, it is composed of various nations/ethnicities: English, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, Manx, Irish and Shetlanders. Unfortunately these nations are losing their cultures and being dissolved, some already lost their original language, like the Shetlanders (Norn). The same is happening with the nations of Spain and some other European countries. In any case, this is not the worse that is happening; Europeans around the world are disappearing and dissolving in a globalized society.
britian is tired of not constantly being at war and managing colonies.
Wrong. It's the rich that think this way. The people don't want to be at war.
Britain is also not a country.
It’s an American colony.
@@Tobi-ln9xr donut
I love so much non-Belgians saying Belgium isnt a nation. Completely ignoring that Belgium got its indepence from the Netherlands with Mostly french help. Afterwards the Brits helped us too.
Also How they ignore That back in WW1 every Belgian, french or dutch, would proudly wave our tricolore and shout VIVE La Belgique or Leve België.
J Bagger I also like you discussing his with a person that is born and raised in Belgium. I have direct access to What is going on here.
J Bagger No I only stated I live here and I know what vibe hangs around here and Its deffinetly not a bad one.
Let's be real man, we are not a nation, we are two different people groups, living along side but not with each other...
Well I am a flemish as well and the sentiment of Flemish people after the elections this sunday couldn't be filled with anger any more then it is now. Belgium isn't a nation, we are not one people. In 1906 a Walloon politician said, "Sire, Il y a en Belgique de Wallons et des Flamands, il n y'a pas de Belges." translated, "Your Majesty(the king), In Belgium there are Walloons and Flemings. There are no Belgians."
South of the country, not our people, not our culture, not our ideology. Signed a displeased Fleming.
Zuiden van het land, niet ons volk, niet onze cultuur, niet onze ideologie. Gesigneerd een misnoegde Vlaming.
Sud du pays, pas notre peuple, pas notre culture, pas notre idéologie. Signé un Flamand mécontent.
@@jbagger331 Nations are obsurdities and the universe will be better off when the sun goes nova and wipes such meaningless concepts out of existence.
a guy coming from a union ruled by a queen wants to tell people why being ruled from brussels is against the concept of free nations.
One which two members both Northern Ireland and Scotland supported remain yet the UK still left. Minorities in the UK have frequently been shafted as far back as before the union.
Belgium has a king what are you on about?
@@enthusiastisch1922 bro why you don't read a history book for once, the power in Belgium is not coming from the king.
@@Afura33maybe look at the current world instead of history book. The king in the uk doesn’t have any power either
@@oscarosullivan4513 Without the leave voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland, remain would have won. minorities???? we all get one equal vote.
Why on Earth is the Belgian Prime Minister debating Nige Farage? Doesn’t he have better things to do.
Surely one could say that Britain isn’t a nation as there are 4 parts to it which despite all speaking English technically have different languages and hate each other
We don't hate each other though?
The UK is a union of 4 nations
@@chalice7322 We don't either. There are pollitical clashes now and then but the people don't hate eachother.
I can say that we don't hate each other but I hate people like him.
@@MadeOfStone89 three I don't think Northern Ireland counts as a nation
As a dutch I can conform this
So Netherlands what it is? A village? I can confirm this.
@@rickvanveluw981 😂😂😂😂😂that the British that u so defend separeted 👌
@@heldertorres4296 It's the westernmost part of Germany.
As a Belgian, you know jackshit.
Shut up cheesefase
Belgium exists so that European powers have a place to settle their differences.
Belgium is not a nation?
Same is the case for the "United" Kingdom:
Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales don't belong to England either, and don't form a cohesive union at all.
So what's his point?
Belgium is a cruel joke.
That's why we have our own national football teams, rugby teams etc. We are four nations within one sovereign state. Where is your Walloon football team?
@@chesterdonnelly1212
I'm not Belgian, and I don't like football
@@malph123 So is the UK
Scotland ain't a real country anyway, they're just English men in a dress.
I cannot stop laughing.
Nigel goes of the far end here although criticism to Belgiums leadership is correct. Because 'leadership' hasn't been there in the form of a government for over the last 500 days!
Pretty sure there are wikipedia pages on the Belgian governments since Independence. That's a start!
Why doesn’t Wallonia re annex themselves to France and Flanders re annex themselves to Netherlands ? WTH
buffer zone.
Well wallonia don't wanna be part of france and flander's not from the nederland's
I love how I get recommended a video titled “why Belgium isn’t a country” while watching this 😂
:( Oh, Nigel :'(
Belgium? You mean Southern Netherlands/Northern France/Northern Morocco?
Lol Morocco
Belgica : todays Belgium + northern France + southern Netherland
Not the other way around.
May I refer you to Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities"? You'd discover that an "artificial creation" is the VERY DEFINITION of a nation!
Not an argument
@S. I. V. It would split as parts of France and The Netherlands. What does Germany have to do here, भाई?
You confuse `country`` with nation. an artificial creation ``which the voters agree with`` is a nation, when the voters detest it, its just a country.
SCOTLAND FOR INDEPENDENCE NOW!
it wont be independence though will it, you will have to abide by EU rulings, EU Law, EU courts and also be told who to trade with and not to, and also be told in what people to have in as well, also will have to abide to European Elections in which you will have no control over, i mean did you vote for the leading European party of course you didnt, no one did because it is done all in house, and also did you know the European Parliment moves inbetween 3 major cities in France, Germany and Belgium and if you call that "independence" then you need to look that word up because that doesnt sound like independence to me
Henry Cowboy: I wish you all the luck you can get in achieving independence. Why don't you just trigger the equivalent of Article 50......oh wait, the English didn't allow that provision when they created their little expanded kingdom. If they want sovereignty and independence so much, why didn't the English just declare themselves independent from the UK. That would have automatically evicted them from the EU. Of course, they want to leave one union that they can't control but are very reluctant to break up the union that they created and still control. I'm fed up with this stupid union on the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is high time the union rag was thrown into the dustbin of history!
@@celticguy197531 Better than being tied to you English.
gee thanks for that and ermmm what makes you think that i am "English" is it my name Morrison, because i can change if you want me to. i can change it to Donnelly, Mclintock, Hughes, Stewart (Stuart), O'Kane, Bruce, Mclindoe which ever one you want
@@andrewjones-productions Exactly, they love to shout about democracy but when it comes to giving up control of countries within their rule. It's suddenly blasphemy.
I am a bit puzzled here. If Belgium is not a nation, according to mr. Farage, then why did England declare war on Germany in 1914? In one sentence he has stated that England is responsible for the outbreak of the Great War.
Not tru the great war had started before the UK entered the war at the side of the Entente.
'We want to live in nation states not artificial creations' yes let me just check on my crop of naturally occurring nations, oooooo the English are coming along nicely, and it only took a couple hundred years of warring!
More specifically the UK is a union set up through undemocratic means.
Belgium is a multinationl state as Switzerland, it is normal, you can study now
So is the United Kingdom, but English nationalists like Farage want to ignore that blatant fact.
The UK is pretty homogeneous... and sure, the Welsh, Scots, and Irish should have their own sovereign nations too.
What's wrong with being a nationalist, besides the ignorant leftist rhetoric about it being extremist or racist??
@@willyoujustrelax8236 That depends on what form it takes. In Wales, it has traditionally been to describe people who are in favour of self-determination. In that respect, I would be described as a nationalist. However, the likes of Farage border on the type of nationalist that is far right and has intentions of restricting others and seeing themselves as somehow superior. He has made it clear that he wishes to dissolve the Welsh Assembly and even let the Welsh language die. Same word - huge difference.
As for your comment suggesting that the UK is 'homogenous' suggest strongly that you have very little understanding of Welsh culture which is entirely different even though lifestyles may appear to be much the same. We may be a small country, but we are just as valid and are unique in our way.
Andrew Jones Productions I’d be very interested to hear where you got this information about Farage wanting to stop the Welsh language. Any chance of a reference as I’m studying classical European languages and the resurgence in languages that nation states have previously banned?
History would definitely suggest tyranny starts with cultural uniformity and the repression of language & folk traditions.
Stop comparing Belgium with Switzerland, it is a lot more complicated than language alone. There is no 'Belgian identity'.
What a stupid thing to say. The UK is made up of 4 nations. The division is huge.
He's right, Belgium isn't really a country but a collection of smaller and culturally different countries bound together in a Union under a monarchy from a cadet branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha that changed its name to sound less German and more local after WW1. Were as the UK is completely different.
With his logic. The UK isnt a nation
This comment is underrated...
According to your logic the UK isn't a nation either lol.
@@MarloweMcAngusit's the most braindead comment here
Joke: Belgium should be divided or partitioned into 4 zones, Wallonia to France, Flanders to Holland, Brussels to the EU and German speaking parts of Belgium in its east to Germany.
No joke: Belgium doesn't have its own language (French from France, Dutch from Holland and German from Germany).
neither does america
a lot like switzerland then. the 3 french, german & italian speaking parts could easily be gifted to their apropriate neighbouring countries respectively
@@ImperialDiecastIn the US, English is de facto national language. Belgium has zero.
@@overgeared so who gets the german part? austria, germany, or liechtenstein?
@@JayStillYung de facto? For your information The usa has no "official language"
You could also say the same about Northern Ireland.
Nigel Farage is absolutely right, but the UK is also not a nation.
"We want to live in nation states, not false artificial creations"
The sheer stupidity of that sentence cannot be overstated
He’s taking the Micky out of the EU how can you not see that? 😂
He’s using the fact Belgium was made by a bunch of elites from different countries for geopolitical gains as a gag
Why is there outrage about this? It's true
Ian Witten England has always been jealous about Belgium.
Well how does it feel now? After Brexit?
Brilliant, Why ?
@@marksavage1108 Because you lost 5% of your gdp.
@@marksavage1108 Had you stayed your gdp would be 5% higher.
@@morikibbutz2734 Lost 5%, lol no longer in 15% of the debt off the eu`s extreme borrowing. keep the 5% and all the marxist eu`s debt. goof riddance to the eu dictatorship
The thing Farage forgot to add is that his 20th century historic hero overrun Belgium in a few days and forced the British to withdraw to France. Belgium pilots came to Britain and flew with the RAF and were decorated for bravery and many lost their lives, not bad for a country that is not a nation. Farage never supported British interests in his entire period as a MEP. But years earlier brave young Belgium men came and fought along side us in WW2, but we know Farage would probably run rather than fight for Britain, probably because he would have had more sympathy for the enemy, then and now (Russia) lots of cash splashed by Putin to this side of our politics.
Love Farage!
Nigel mate? You sure you’re not talking about the UK? All sounds a bit too close to home for me
Then the UK is not a nation also
The UK isn’t a nation, it’s a union.
Soyboy detected
@@sonofportsmith4435 an union where no one wants to be in ^^
More education of the ignorant. The United Kingdom is a nation formed from the 4 Kingdoms of Scotland Norther Ireland , Wales and England, the 4 kingdoms are 4 ``countries`` that make up the UK ``nation``.Go read a dictionary once in a while.
He’s not wrong lol
This man speak much sense lately 2023
I always knew Belgium wasn't real! Spiffing Brit was right!
Came here after Belgium defeated Japan and Brazil at the world cup.
Japan lost with Japanese players. Brazil lost with Brazilian players. Belgium won with all the best players that money could buy
@@phoque121 All living in Belgium from birth. But it's a very small but mulicultural country... do I smell jealousy.
@@littleprincess8526 Belgium should not be a country.
@@littleprincess8526 I think you smelling that right
Not all ethnic differences should be decisive. But we Flemish don't speak French, are (slightly) different ethnically, we don't share idols (authors, artists, celebs) and I don't have a single Walloon Freind. I read Flemish papers, I take the Flemish public transport and look to Flemish TV. I speak a different language, I learn others things in school and when I cross the language border I feel in an other country. There is no Belgian identity, and Flanders could become a nation itself.
I think this articulates what a lot of Flemish people think.
And most Flemish would prefer independence over retrocession to the Netherlands?
That would have been a nice speech in your British Parliament in 1914, maybe avoiding a world war or two. A victory for the Kaiser Wilhelm and Deutschland was a victory for peace!
WW1 started in the Balkans
@@trueblueclueservs started it
Nigel you made EU hate UK for brexit.
And they still have better beers than the Deunited Kingdom😢
That’s why we allow you to exist.
Pure Class
that did not age well. Brexit was the best advertisement for the EU in history.
Haha right just showed everyone how much it messed up your country if you leave it. Thank you Nigel
Nigel with your logic Britain is a country of Vikings, Romans and Germans.
While he's right about the artifialness, by that line of thinking the US isn't a country either, nor is Canada, France, Spain, Russia, China, Nigeria, India or even the UK. So maybe not the best way to define a country after all?
He was so wrong 4 years later!
Not that I support Farage but to be fair the UK is a lot more organic than Belgium which was specifically set up less than 200 years ago to restrain the French.
Except it isn’t
No it wasnt. the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (largely corresponding with the current Benelux) was created by the European powers in the restauration after the Napoleonic Wars. Belgium gained independence itself, with some military help from France and the UK as mediator. The UK did not create Belgium, Belgium did.
Go give it to them Nigel top man
Farege forget it: United Kingdom is NOT a Nation UK is 4 Nations..or 3 Nations... when Scotland would say in a future referendum :"Yes the independence"
But this man kinda got a point. Belgium has, with the exception of the king and the football team, no national values or culture. A man from Flanders once was asked how you interact with Wallonians and he just said: Well we just don't talk to each other. Is that really a solution? Belgium really should seperate
Into smaller countries?Flanders doesnt want to be a part of the Netherlands and Walloon doesnt want to be a part of France.
Glorious
i honestly thought the guy in the thumbnail is mr bean