From 1974 onwards, Elbers starts to be appreciated as a singer with a repertoire in the Brussels dialect. Recurring themes in his texts become the destruction of Brussels and Elbers’ sympathy for the Flemish proletarian. His most famous song is Leopold II, a song in which he treats these two subjects. On the one hand, it is a song about a homeless tramp, wandering around in Brussels, who physically resembles the second Belgian king; on the other hand, the singer took the opportunity to deplore the "decline" of his hometown. In the meantime, the Egmont Pact of 1977, which was a political pact between the majority parties under the government of prime minister Leo Tindemans, further strengthens his aversion to the VU as he considered the concessions this party was prepared to make to obtain the transformation of Belgium into a federal state, unacceptable. Elbers went over to Lode Claes’ Flemish People's Party, then operative especially in the Brussels region. For the Vlaams Blok, the successor of the Flemish People's Party (and of Karel Dillen’s Flemish National Party, which bundled forces on a kartel-list with the first), he became a candidate for the municipal elections of 1988 in Schaerbeek.
