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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.12,0:00:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I hardly ever talk about Belgian politics. I know talking about politics during a family get together
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.13,0:00:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,totally ruins the mood. But today, today I'd really like to say something about Belgian politics. Because
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.76,0:00:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't get it anymore. Look, Johan Vande Lanotte worked on his note for two months, two whole months. The chairmen of all parties
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.40,0:00:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had the chance to visit with him and say: We want this; we don't want that; we are very much for this, but that is not acceptable
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.16,0:00:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to us. Van de Lanotte writes all of this down, yeah? And he summarizes it in this one government note.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.21,0:00:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how is it possible that when he hands the note out to the same people who provided him with the info
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.76,0:00:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the first place, they all suddenly say: "Gosh, Johan, you left this bit out while we really wanted
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.36,0:00:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it and you put that bit in, but we really don't like it." Why then didn't you mention that when you
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.00,0:01:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were over at Johan's drinking your cup of coffee? This morning I heard Rik Torfs on the radio. Have you
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.96,0:01:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard, Rik Torfs? And Rik Torfs said: "Yes, we ought to take it slow and think about how best to start.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.49,0:01:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excuse me? Excuse me? Take it slow and think about how to start? Have those people no shame? We've been
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.44,0:01:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going at this for two hundred days, Rik! How best to start!? If your plumber tells you this, because you called
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.52,0:01:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,him to fix a broken shower, and first he doesn't do anything for two hundred days but still he asks you money for it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.56,0:01:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he tells you you should take it slow and think about how best to start, you would sue him,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.56,0:01:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wouldn't you? I wonder if that isn't an option. Could there be a law somewhere that says our members
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.09,0:01:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of parliament are obligated to form a government? Couldn't we force the issue by having a judge making them pay a fine
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.60,0:02:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a million euros a day, per day there isn't a government yet? One million per Belgian. Rik Torfs would
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.32,0:02:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come hand it to your personally. Or the postman, together with your cash pension payment. Those people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.40,0:02:11.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been elected, haven't they? They applied for the job, didn't they? Well, you've got the job, now
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.96,0:02:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,start doing it, please! I understand there are serious concerns about the Flemish Movement and that there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.44,0:02:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are Flemish demands that need to be met, all that's very well, but
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.40,0:02:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this morning I heard, did anyone else hear, I heard on the radio that the current issue is the responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.55,0:02:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the access to and the exits of the ringway around Brussels. Because this ringway is in Flanders,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.87,0:02:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually, haha! So who is responsible for the access and exits? It couldn't be Brussels, could it? No,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.44,0:02:51.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it has to be Flanders! Do I understand this correctly, that these people put an entire country on hold
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.65,0:03:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is an argument about some stupid exit from a road? Thou shalt exit on the Flemish side
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.32,0:03:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or thou shalt not? I really can't understand this. Do these people still live in the actual world? Do they even know what they're doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.64,0:03:14.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next thing will be the viaduct of Vilvoorde. This thing is over Vilvoorde indeed, but has anyone ever
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.96,0:03:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,measured how high it actually is? Because maybe it's too high to be considered to be on Flemish land,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.20,0:03:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe it's actually hanging in Belgian air space, and then the federation would be responsible! Really,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.08,0:03:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the next thing we're going to think about and take it slow; slow, huh Rikky, so you don't hurt yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.20,0:03:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to take it slow about how to take the first step. Honestly! People, there's only one solution, only one. We
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.36,0:03:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to get out there. In every banana republic, in every corrupt country people start protests. And here,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.76,0:03:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we just sit back on our couches, watching it all and think: let's think about this, nice and calm. We need to get out there. We haven't been a proper country for a while
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.24,0:04:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now, so why not do as those banana republics do? Just grab some Walloon by the hand, drag him out on
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.20,0:04:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the street with you and start demonstrating until we have a government! There, I needed to get that out.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.60,0:04:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Phew, that helped. I was planning on a jog in the park, but it's raining, but I think I've just burned more calories than I would have running laps for half an hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.32,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.