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The Italian town that banned cricket

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The history of cricket in Italy is surprisingly long and they have a modestly successful national side (albeit at Associate level). Different to many countries where it is largely played by immigrants from the subcontinent. [0]

Seems a weird choice of wedge issue, though the article makes it sound like the mayor is basically shotgunning anything the Bangladeshi shipyard workers and their families enjoy, which I suppose makes some miserable sense.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_national_cricket_team

She is from a far right party which main objective is dividing north and south italy. It was a hate party for the south, now its a hate party for immigrants so they can get more votes. It even changed name from "Lega Nord" to just "Lega" in a laughable attempt to erase their hateful past. You can still find videos of their leader singing a racist song towards neapolitans, asking the vesuvius to wash them with lava

Dying EU cultures lashing out as their world changes around them.

Ah the classic italian right move: ban something totally useless to make your racist voters happy

Classic? What have they banned countrywide regarding to minorities?

Also this is a town of 29k people.

Coming from the far right party (not only related to minorities): - Rave Party ban - CBD Hemp ban - Cultivated meat ban - Made in italy new useless rules which made italian brands remove the flag - Allowed fascist parade while beating up students protesting. - Driving License suspension if found positive to drugs despite not being altered. Do i have to keep going? This government is terrible, racist and fascist. the town might be 29k people but the party the major is in is inside the coalition governing the country.

Thanks for the pointers, I hadn't heard about those.

P.S. The made in Italy ban makes total sense as it's about products using materials not from Italy.

Makes sense to a certain degree. Its still made in italy with materials not from italy. You just need to have a certain percentage of labour done in italy

Also Giorgia Meloni (the president), vividly expressed her disgust for gay marriage, so there is that. She wants italian to have a "Traditional Family" despite her being a divorced single mother whose ex partner (a tv host) was recorded off show doing verbal sexual allusion to interns while touching his dick

More specifically Northern Italy.

Monfalcone is in peak Lega Nord territory

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