MPs and Lords head to parliament as PM says emergency law must be passed
today to save British Steel – live
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MPs to debate emergency law that will give the business secretary the power
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They had made a clear calculation: that Italy's political system needed tearing up and cleaning out. They cast their vote for Mr Grillo's movement because they had lost faith in the old political caste.
ReplyDeleteIn Brussels, there was silence or the knee-jerk rant against populists or clowns.
Mario Monti was the darling in Brussels and Berlin, but Italian voters rejected him
What there was not was an understanding of the desire for fundamental change, or of the growing despair that Europe is not working.
Mr Grillo is full of flaws and risks and contradictions but he understood the disaffection and rage coursing through not just Italy but much of southern Europe.
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