Italy is now a post-democratic colony of the EU: the ballot box no longer works

May 29, 2018 by Jill

by Archbishop Cranmer:

So, the ‘elite’ President of Italy has vetoed the appointment of a ‘populist’ finance minister, citing “uncertainty” about Italy’s membership of the euro, which is apparently inviolable. “I asked for… an authoritative person from the parliamentary majority who is consistent with the government programme… who isn’t seen as a supporter of a line that could probably, or even inevitably, provoke Italy’s exit from the euro,” President Sergio Mattarella said.

It doesn’t appear that a ‘government programme’ in Italy may be anti-EU or anti-euro (if they aren’t the same thing), confirming (if there was ever any doubt) that “there can be no democratic choice against the European treaties,” as Jean-Claude Juncker once said. Italians who voted for populist parties in the hope of change have discovered that the ballot box no longer works. Those who supported the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Lega aren’t by any means all ‘extremists’, ‘racists’, ‘xenophobes’, etc., etc. They are fathers who want to provide for their families, mothers who want to feed their babies, teenagers who want a job…

Youth unemployment in Italy is 31.5%; in Sicily it is a whopping 57.2%. Try telling an educated jobless 18-year-old that the EU is working or that the euro is the fount of prosperity, and he’ll kick you very swiftly where it hurts. Try telling three million angry and forgotten youngsters that they should be welcoming millions of immigrants from Romania, Morocco, Albania and Nigeria because it’s the tolerant, generous and Christian thing to do.

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