A4710Rider you don’t half spout some crap about Italy. I was sitting at home in Rome the other day half watching the news showing the latest political update a few days after the new government was formed and half reading some posts from the same day from you telling us that the government had been vetoed by the EU. Totally out of date nonsense interpretation of an execution of constitutional responsibility by the Italian president.
Well let me tell you this, Southern Europe is on it's knees financially and has been and is being swamped with Africa migrants.
Ignoring the dog whistle comment re swamp and African migrants, yes we are in the middle of a crisis dealing with a pretty overwhelming number of migrants from Africa but seeing as Italy will still be near the African coast even if we were to leave the EU and considering that knowledge of the participation or not of the 4 freedoms in Europe would probably not register much when someone is prepared to make that deadly journey in a dinghy I really can’t see that leaving the EU would solve that issue. The migrant crisis, the drownings etc have been happening on a large scale way before the anglophone press decided to report on it. And way before head tilting faux concern for Southern Europe became another means of bashing the EU with for a certain type of Brexiteer. And since the UK’s response to helping Italy with this has been beyond woeful (as has the response of certain Eastern European countries) I can’t imagine that outside the EU Italy would suddenly find itself in a stronger place. Luckily even the current government, who I am no fan of, seem to see that they need to push for change from within the EU and despite the ‘Italy will be the next to leave’ battle cry from certain Brexiteers there is still no real push to leave here.
All I care about is how fucking great the EU is and how shit we are
Why on earth are people who are in favour of the EU portrayed so often as being blind to its faults and enthusiastically embracing anything that comes out of Brussels? It’s perfectly possibly to be not a fan of the Euro, to feel Italy hasn’t benefitted from the Euro as Germany have, to be angry at the lack of assistance with migrants while at the same time being wholeheartedly a supporter of the European Union despite this.