Just read in the times the italian government is Co blaming the EU fir the tragic deaths in Italy...monetary reasons. Mmmmm.
Everyone needs a whipping boy. I wonder who ours will be when we leave. Oh silly me, it'll still be the EU of course, because they didn't meet the expectations of our right wing press and give a non-member terms on parity with members.
Populists will always look for someone to focus blame on to get easy answers but looks like Salvini has been called out on it, both for its gross insensitivity and its factual inaccuracy.
It doesn't help the Italian Government that the media is reporting that Lega's bedfellows in power had specifically called, a number of years ago, for money not to spent on upgrading and improving the bridge, and other key infrastructure.
The bridge was operated and maintained by a private firm who collected tolls (and made a pretty profit doing so) to pay for said operation and maintenance. How the Italian politician, you or you mates in the loony Brexit press can try and spin this as anything to do with the EU, let alone their fault, is sick.
People have died and all you and they can think of is how you can get some anti-EU political capital out of the situation.
The bridge was operated and maintained by a private firm who collected tolls (and made a pretty profit doing so) to pay for said operation and maintenance. How the Italian politician, you or you mates in the loony Brexit press can try and spin this as anything to do with the EU, let alone their fault, is sick.
People have died and all you and they can think of is how you can get some anti-EU political capital out of the situation.
So the editors of the times are sick are they.....you quote them on a frequent basis when it suits you...That's sick.
It doesn't help the Italian Government that the media is reporting that Lega's bedfellows in power had specifically called, a number of years ago, for money not to spent on upgrading and improving the bridge, and other key infrastructure.
PS Can anyone spot the cunningly hidden Daily Mail story?
Love that bit where the EU offered money...don't the Italians pay into the pool then...they were being offered a fraction of their own money back...its like my bank patting themselves on the back for letting me withdraw some of my own money.
The bridge was operated and maintained by a private firm who collected tolls (and made a pretty profit doing so) to pay for said operation and maintenance. How the Italian politician, you or you mates in the loony Brexit press can try and spin this as anything to do with the EU, let alone their fault, is sick.
People have died and all you and they can think of is how you can get some anti-EU political capital out of the situation.
So the editors of the times are sick are they.....you quote them on a frequent basis when it suits you...That's sick.
To your first point. Quite possibly if they did what you said, I imagine they didn't, they were morst likely reporting what the Italian MP had said.
And regarding your second point, I don't believe I have ever quoted The Times, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
It doesn't help the Italian Government that the media is reporting that Lega's bedfellows in power had specifically called, a number of years ago, for money not to spent on upgrading and improving the bridge, and other key infrastructure.
PS Can anyone spot the cunningly hidden Daily Mail story?
Love that bit where the EU offered money...don't the Italians pay into the pool then...they were being offered a fraction of their own money back...its like my bank patting themselves on the back for letting me withdraw some of my own money.
It doesn't help the Italian Government that the media is reporting that Lega's bedfellows in power had specifically called, a number of years ago, for money not to spent on upgrading and improving the bridge, and other key infrastructure.
PS Can anyone spot the cunningly hidden Daily Mail story?
Love that bit where the EU offered money...don't the Italians pay into the pool then...they were being offered a fraction of their own money back...its like my bank patting themselves on the back for letting me withdraw some of my own money.
Farage can say and think what he likes. He’ll never be affected by the fallout of a failing economy. He’s taken the “shilling” to be exactly what he is. A lying, creep.
Leave, become a desperately poor economy, then apply to join, and get every town centre, railway, highway, historic building and hospital re-built a la Poland, Latvia, Spain etc! In a matter of years we will recoup the £3,000 billion, £4,000 billion or however much is the net amount we have paid in since joining.
I knew there must have been some forward thinking by Johnson, Corbyn and the other mad leavers.
Farage can say and think what he likes. He’ll never be affected by the fallout of a failing economy. He’s taken the “shilling” to be exactly what he is. A lying, creep.
The campaign for a referendum on the final Brexit deal has been boosted by a record £1,000,000 donation.
Julian Dunkerton, who co-founded Superdry, said he was making the donation to the People’s Vote campaign because he saw a “genuine chance to turn this around”.
He claimed that, if Brexit had happened 20 years earlier, his brand would never have been a success.
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https://politico.eu/article/giuseppe-conte-danilo-toninelli-5stars-italy-under-fire-after-genoa-bridge-collapse/
https://nypost.com/2018/08/15/italian-party-called-bridge-repairs-waste-of-money-years-before-collapse/
euronews.com/2018/08/14/engineer-warned-in-2016-that-genoa-bridge-would-need-rebuilding
https://aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/italy-bridge-collapse-state-deterioration-notorious-180816052346000.html
https://msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fury-of-victims-families-over-genoa-bridge-collapse-as-it-emerges-italys-governing-populist-party-labelled-safety-fears-a-childrens-fairy-story-five-years-ago-%E2%80%93-but-now-plans-to-fine-contractor-%C2%A3130million-after-38-were-killed/ar-BBLXhhI
https://thelocal.it/20180815/five-star-movement-founder-reportedly-mocked-warnings-of-collapse-of-morandi-bridge
Meanwhile, the EU had offered money for a project to improve the road network in Genoa with a bypass, only for the Five Star Movement to argue against it (see the final paragraphs): https://j105.com/news/world/genoa-italy-bridge-collapse-warnings
PS Can anyone spot the cunningly hidden Daily Mail story?
People have died and all you and they can think of is how you can get some anti-EU political capital out of the situation.
And regarding your second point, I don't believe I have ever quoted The Times, but I'm happy to be proved wrong.
https://twitter.com/sarahduggers/status/1029514363122659328?s=21
https://mobile.twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1030122574381023232?s=21
Leave, become a desperately poor economy, then apply to join, and get every town centre, railway, highway, historic building and hospital re-built a la Poland, Latvia, Spain etc! In a matter of years we will recoup the £3,000 billion, £4,000 billion or however much is the net amount we have paid in since joining.
I knew there must have been some forward thinking by Johnson, Corbyn and the other mad leavers.
Julian Dunkerton, who co-founded Superdry, said he was making the donation to the People’s Vote campaign because he saw a “genuine chance to turn this around”.
He claimed that, if Brexit had happened 20 years earlier, his brand would never have been a success.