So you’re sick and tired of political system – well, it’s your own fault
One of the interesting aspects of this, from a Flemish point of view, is that it gives the people of Flanders the chance to design a new country for themselves. The last time we looked at how we were going to organise ourselves was in 1937.
One of the more frustrating things about being Irish is that we live in a country that produced, arguably, the greatest rock band in the world, has contributed far more than its fair share of world-class actors, writers, business people and sports champions, but yet has a level of national political discourse that would match a Haitian public sewerage board meeting. Why is the level of our national discourse so inferior to the other great things we’ve been able to achieve as a nation?
