“Bitter mussels”: this is exactly how “Padiglione Italia” begins, the caustic Sunday column by Aldo Grasso, icon of television criticism, on the front page of Corriere della Sera.
Fat takes aim the grillina senator of Taranto, Barbara Lezzi, the pasionaria who led the revolt of the Five Star parliamentarians against the penal shield for the top management of Ilva, whose suppression is providing an incredible alibi for ArcelorMittal's escape plans.
“We dealt with Barbara Lezzi – writes Grasso with elegant irony – when she attributed the increase in GDP to the energy consumption of air conditioners in a particularly hot summer. Then, as chief economist of the M5S, when he wanted to get his Puglia back on track by closing Enel's coal-fired plants to rely on renewables and other such amenities” .
But it is on the Ilva that Lezzi gives her worst and Grasso doesn't miss the target. What happens if the largest steel plant in Taranto closes? No problem, guarantees Lezzi, who warns: "Taranto is a beautiful seaside city that is only mentioned for the former Ilva, but it has, for example, a long tradition in mussel farming, which cannot be forgotten" .
Too bad, reports Grasso, that if the Ilva of Taranto closes, more than 10 people out of 200 inhabitants will stay at home. “It's sad to say – Grasso sarcastically notes – but the risk is that there will be more unemployed than mussels“. But don't worry. "At that point Lezzi, on the ruins of Ilva, will happily erect a monument to the unknown mussel". Great Fat.
But big Fat what, bunch of imbeciles who write this nonsense! Lezzi underlined how the beauty of the place was overshadowed by the Ilva affair… you are truly servants of the system!
When you have no arguments, you insult…
It would have been interesting if a journalist had approached his own ironies to issues of this type:
How many of the 10 employees of Ilva are inhabitants of the city of Taranto, or at least of the area to which 40% unemployment refers?
How much does ilva affect tourism, handicrafts, mythical culture, agriculture, pastoralism, etc. in terms of employment in the area to which 40% unemployment refers?
I state that I don't have much sympathy for the grillini, but, as a Tarantino, I invite Mr. Grasso and all of you to come and be ironic at the pediatric oncology department of the SS hospital. Annunziata of Taranto recently named after Nadia Toffa.