The recent Italian election has made for very interesting and thought provoking viewing. It has resulted in a situation where a coalition is required, as we somewhat expected, but it is likely to be a coalition of the centre and populist Right. This is because, in an astounding result, the Establishment Left were slapped down into third place.

Now I am no expert on Italian politics but even I can see this as a significant sea change in the make up and style of those who govern Italy. The winners in this election, the coalition of parties on the Right along with the slightly more left leaning anti-Establishment 5 Star Movement, are a big change from the pro-European Union, pro-Euro, pro-mass migration parties of the Left. These Leftist parties have in recent years presided over, caused or exacerbated economic and social problems that have hit ordinary Italians very hard. The Italian economy has not grown as fast as others in the EU have done after the 2008 financial crisis and despite some minor improvements in its unemployment rate, 11% of Italians are without work. Bailouts have had to be given to some banks which had had injudicious lending policies in order to keep the country’s financial system stable, which to a certain extent may have worked, but being shackled to the Euro currency means that Italy has little room to manoeuvre with regards to monetary policy.

Apart from the weak economy and the structural problems such as bureaucracy and a lack of large big earning Italian corporations, the other factor that has helped to cause this transformation of the Italian political landscape is immigration. The left has presided over an immigration disaster that has the potential to wreck Italy completely if it is not tackled and tackled soon. Leftist politicians in the previous government allowed over 600,000 migrants to enter Italy which were brought in by people traffickers and left wing charities who have been alleged to have been working with the traffickers in order to get migrants to Italy. These migrants have brought little to the average Italian but misery. The migrants have brought some of the worst things that can be brought into a culture. They’ve brought mass prostitution, violent gangsterism, Islam, property crime, attacks on women, terrorism and even in one case, cannibalism. Women in Rome have protested about the risk that these, often Muslim, migrants pose to their personal security as well they ought to. There have also been rising tensions as ordinary Italians, feeling abandoned by the politicians who they expected to protect them from the imported savagery, started to take the law into their own hands and hit back at the invading migrants. It seems that the Leftists in the Italian government knew just what it would take to kick a nation that was already economically down and put their own people into a state of utter misery. The left accomplished this kick in the teeth for the Italians with the taking in of hundreds of thousands of potentially dangerous Muslims and violent thugs from sub-Saharan Africa. The average Italian is suffering and the presence of that nation’s violent and unwanted invaders is now a significant part of that suffering.

The slightly less than stellar economy, the rapine and bestial behaviour of all too many of Italy’s sub-Saharan migrants, the first signs of Islamic supremacists flexing their muscles and a desire for a return to a state where Italians can be proud of their nation, all to my mind played a part in the Italian election result. It is a sign that things have got so bad in Italy that the people desire a change. As with the election of President Donald Trump in the United States, the Brexit vote and the continued support for anti-Left, anti-migrant invasion politicians in Eastern Europe, the Italian people chose politicians or causes that would confront the problems facing their nations and not merely gloss over them and tell the public that everything is all right. For too long we in Europe have had politicians who have lied to us. These politicians, which all European countries including Italy have, tell us such enormous porkies as ‘Britain will die outside of the EU’, or ‘these refugees are tomorrow’s doctors and rocket scientists’ along with the biggest and most rancid lie of all that of ‘Islam is a religion of peace’.

The Italian election campaign was marked for me by two factors, one that cheered me and one that caused me even more disgust at the Left. The thing that cheered me was the fact that Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega Nord party is openly critical of Islam. I must admit that it was a breath of fresh air to see a politician, one who is now going to play a major role in governing Italy, speak of Islam as an ideology that brings problems to Italy. In my view he was correct to say so and his hostility to the virtual open border that the Left allowed to happen on its watch is heartening. Mr Salvini is correct to identify illegal migrants as a potential flashpoint for the future and because of that his policy of expelling the illegals may well save Italy from some form of violent conflict although this policy will probably be opposed, most likely with violence, by the thugs of Antifa.

On the subject of the Italian Left my disgust was raised by the news that leftist groups, including the Democratic Party were working with Muslim Brotherhood associated figures in order to coach Muslims in Milan into voting for the Democratic Party. A win for the Democratic Party and other Leftists in Italy would have brought about a change in Italian citizenship law that would have given Muslims in Italy a powerful political weapon. It would have further entrenched Islam in Italy with all the associated problems that such an entrenchment has brought to places like France, the Nordic and Low countries and the United Kingdom. Although this sort of vote farming of Muslims and pandering to their demands is something we in Europe have come to expect, the facilitating of birthright citizenship policies that would increase Muslim political power in Italy is particularly seditious and disgusting. If you wanted an example of how the Left hate the ordinary citizen then look no further than this example.

The final shape of the Italian coalition government remains to be seen but surely it cannot be anything like as bad as what the Italians have been landed with since 2013? Time will tell if Mr Salvini or someone else becomes Italy’s Prime Minister and also if the pro-Italy and anti-invader rhetoric that Mr Salvini used during the campaign is translated into solid policy or is mere words. What cannot be denied is that the Italians decided that they didn’t want just more of the same politicians that they blame for their current problems and which would continue with the disastrous and destructive policies that have brought Italy so low. The Italians chucked out the radical chic metropolitan left and the Islamopanderers and they did it peacefully and via the ballot box, now other nations, including the United Kingdom should do the same.