Here is a quote from the BBC Europe Editor, Katya Adler’s, very short piece on the BBC Radio 4 Six O’Clock News this evening, concerning the electoral victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy:
Millions of Italians didn’t vote for her. They say they do not recognise themselves in her nationalist, protectionist proposals, her anti-immigration rhetoric and her conservative family mores.
Isn’t that remarkable? Can you imagine the awful Adler, or indeed any correspondent, commenting on the victory of a left-wing candidate:
Millions of people didn’t vote for her. They say they do not recognise themselves in her mentally unbalanced identity politics, ranting support for cripplingly high taxation, foreign policy characterised by a hatred for the West and absurd energy policy based upon the harvesting of unicorn tears.
It wouldn’t happen. It has never happened. What Adler did was otiose, performative, left-wing virtue signalling. Of course millions of Italians didn’t vote for her – the point is that millions did. And of course those who didn’t vote for her will not agree with her policies. That’s why they didn’t vote for her.
What Adler did was demonstrate left-wing bias, pure and simple.
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