Cognatic Succession: Abstain --> Aye
[SDP]
~ Georges Poirot, Deputy for Mons and Leader of the SDP
[SDP]
~ Georges Poirot, Deputy for Mons and Leader of the SDP
A speech given by General Pilon in Brussels
Regalists! Conservatives! Beauffortists! How many of you have felt at a loss these past decades? How many of have been persecuted by the Red Legion and their mad leader, who was only but a heartbeat away from being Prime Minister? How many of you want Belgium to be strong again?
The Regalist Union under the leadership of Harfleur and de Lannoy has, at every possible interval, abandoned the ideals of conservatism, instead opting for a weak, impotent, even illusory defence of the right, all the while opting to work with socialists and republicans. Was it not under Harfleur that de Leeuw, that villain and self-professed radical, and known priest-killer, first truly rose to political prominence and reached even greater infamy? Was it not under Lannoy that Belgium’s great distress in Africa began to fester and grow, without any interest or notice by his tepid and half-hearted government?
Gentlemen, brothers, it is time for this flirtation with socialism to end! Now is the hour for True Conservatism to rise again! Now is the hour to defend the monarchy! Now is New Beauffortism’s time to ascend, and for Belgium to once again have strong, moral leadership!
No more shall radical and republicans dictate our policies, as they have done for so long! No more shall our own party members bolt and vote for the leftists! No more shall True Conservatives be denied their rights! Let us toss out these tired and old Harfleurians and Aertists, corrupt and malignant, and replace those craven whore-sons with strong moral leadership once again!
I ask you: will you allow Savarin and de Leeuw, alongside their drug-addled and avaricious allies, who themselves are so morally bankrupt that they cannot even find it themselves to establish a republic, to dictate the old and fainthearted Regalists of Aerts and Lannoy, into this thousand years of darkness? Or will you stand with me, and with van der Werve, and with Beauffort, and save Belgium from this moral malaise and social upheaval?
Only through the ideals of New Beauffortism can Belgium remain afloat in the wake of the red hydra! Only through New Beauffortism can Belgium experience a spiritual and moral rebirth, and reject the excesses and vanities of the democrats! Only through New Beauffortism can Belgium truly begin to live again!
I ask Leon van der Werve, the great champion of conservatism, and quite possibly the only man in Belgium with the wealth, the intellect, and simple moral compass, to lead this Kingdom out of this mire, these jaws of the red hydra, to take the helm of the Regalist Union, and save Belgium from these damnable radicals!