ah yes, ‘taking back control’, which in hardcore brexiter land meant – best-case scenario – crashing out of europe onto WTO rules. as we all know, no foreigners ever cross borders in the world trade organisations’ trading rubrics.
i’ve said before that kicking out poles and romanians so that we have to employ indians and africans as carers, bus drivers and kale pickers is hilariously funny. and it will continue to be so, no matter how red in the face you get as material necessities assert themselves in the labour market. trade deals with india and deportation deals with rwanda: look at the glorious directions we are shifting in, in pursuit of your xenophobic wet dreams!
26% of 2/3rds of italians voted for the ‘fascist candidate’ who, as with the last 3-4 administrations, has to share power in a coalition. the story here is equally as much about the collapse of voting numbers in italian elections as ‘italy has turned full fascist in overwhelming and resounding support of my racist worldview’.
+ 63.9% for 2022. and look at what year the decline begins ... make you think.
but yes, graphs and statistics, such exhausting stuff in the world of political commentary and analysis. imagine the preposterous idea that people’s economic conditions affect their social and political views, or that macro-scale shocks to the economy might result in political polarisation and/or widespread frustration with the status quo.
you don’t need graphs to see this very simple logic at work. all of the most-affected economies by the EU crash+bailouts have had a decade of wildly polarised politics and a vacating of the political centre ground. greece had years of a renewed golden dawn and blackshirt fascists; spain had the rise of 15-M/podemos and radical ‘anti-austerity’ socialist solutions. both large grassroots – indeed, populist – reactions with the economic context firmly foregrounded in their projects. italy’s renewed period of populism and ‘alternative’ candidates, not all of whom have been fascist or far-right, by the way – beppe grillo and the five star movement/M5S has been part of both left and right wing coalitions – italy’s recent politics clearly fits within this pattern.
i’m not reading tea leaves here, dipshit.
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