Italy’s League seeks to remove EU flag from public offices

17 comments

1. Idiots

2. Useful work, as usual

3. You gotta be kidding me!

   Have they lost their minds?

   I mean the Italians.

4. Perfect example of useless populist.

5. And I feel guilty when I don’t work at 100% on my job

6. Glad to see Lega has their priorities straight /s

7. The really important problems right there

8. Finally something important….. Idiots

9. That’s just a propaganda tweet from a Lega’s senator, it will lead to nothing.

10. Apparently “League” is really down in polls lately so with 1 month to go until the EU parliamentary elections they’re trying real hard to get all the far right loonatics to vote for them.

11. Not surprising, far-right scums always create non-existent problems to keep their jobs, instead of trying to fix their real ones.

12. Tackling the important issues I see.

13. Whats the point being totally against the EU? It’s not going away. Reform not replace.

14. Funfact

    The senator who wrote this tweet, which is not a proposal or anything just something to stay relevant as polls are clearly showing lega downfall, is one of those candidates for European Parliament

15. Here’s what’s happening in a nutshell: Italy has an extremely strong anti-establishment, populist base that constitutes some 20-40% of the electorate (although it comprises a lot of contradictory views and opposing extremisms). This allows any party that rages against “the system” (usually but not exclusively the EU) to pick up a ton of votes at an election, often enough to get in power.

    Unfortunately, as Italy learned the hard way under the Lega-M5S coalition, translating anti-system ideas into policies that must make the system work is a recipe for disaster, which is why the popularity of these parties collapsed after their stint in power. But this didn’t change the electorate, so they simply voted for the next person raging against “the system”, aka Giorgia Meloni.

    Meloni learned the lesson from her predecessors, and the moment she stepped into power, she threw all of her anti-establishment ideas out of the window and ruled as a relatively traditional conservative, which is working out much better for her. But the anti-establishment electorate is still there, and her 180 degrees turn on “fighting” the EU, abandoning Ukraine, etc. is eventually going to cost her.

    So what we’re seeing now is the Lega scrambling to recapture those anti-establishment voters, and this requires as much theatrics as possible – including these ludicrous polemics over flags. They’re simply trying to do to Meloni what Meloni did to them, wooing an anti-establishment electorate that Meloni’s increasingly pro-establishment party can’t hang onto forever, and hoping one day to ride back into (a greater share of) power on the wave of their support.

    Italy is locked in this loop unfortunately, we have an electorate that votes for anti-politics, gets politics, and so they vote for anti-politics again, incapable of seeing the oxymoron.

16. Communists! Oh, wait…! /S

17. Salvini is struggling in the national polls (and there are the risk that he will be ousted by the secretary of the party by the most moderate member of the party, for example from Veneto governor zaia supporters) , and he try to obtain consensus from the rightiest faction of Italian population