Italians First?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43167699

The outcome of the Italian elections could prove interesting.

/// Mr Berlusconi has described the illegal migrants living in Italy as a "social time-bomb ready to explode", and has pledged mass deportations. ///

/// League, formerly known as the Northern League, is the other main member of that coalition. Its leader, Matteo Salvini, is a friend of France's far-right opposition leader Marine Le Pen and an admirer of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. His slogan is "Italians first". ///

[jackthehat]

Yes, it could.

[ToraToraTora]

interesting times but let us not forget that Italy has PR so they only ever get coalitions that are largely paralyzed.

[naomi24]

With 600,000 unexpected and uninvited arriving in the last four years and every one of them expecting to be helped, I can understand any Italian saying ‘Italians first’. I agree with them.

[Jackdaw33]

Good job it didn't say Britons First or the wrath of the Tibetan peace porridge munchers and yoghurt knitters would descend upon us.

[youngmafbog]

The worrying thing here is the rise of the far right in Europe.

All caused of course by right-on liberal idealogical thinking influenced by a minority of people and forced on the masses.

[DTCwordfan]

the beginning of Uscita Italia and it will be a right dog's breakfast....and lead to break up of the country, back to a neo-Machiavellian string of states, me thinks.

This was predicted on a conference in Brussels I went to as early as 1982, 'European Perspectives and Trends'....the greening and browning of EU politics as well.....

[kvalidir]

From a country that has internment camps for Romanis that doesn't surprise me at all.

[DTCwordfan]

so do we, they are called veggie and flower farms.

[mushroom25]

isn't Berlusconi currently banned from public office? yet he's standing for election? how does that work?

[anotheoldgit]

Could you imagine this taking place in the UK, where are the Italian Far-Left?

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/6E73/production/_100157282_gettyimages-857542176.jpg

Casa Pound protesters carry a banner demanding the closure of a mosque in Rome

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25
He himself is not standing for election, but his party is.

[ToraToraTora]

he's playing the game mush, he's banned from public office but not from standing for public office. If he wins he'll say the public want him and that overrides any ban and probably get it overturned.