When the going gets tough the technicians get going.

Time to put down the democracy toy kids and let the elites get back to work.

 I would like to take issue with the recent scribbling about the change of government in Italy. To be brief Henington is out of his depth and should go back to criticizing Howard-era Liberals in Australia, as he has no idea about the complexities of Italian politics and the importance of stability in the Euro Zone.

I won’t bother to take apart his childish metaphors of Ronald McDonald, the fictional clown face of a global fast food company, with the legitimately elected prime minister of the 7^th largest economy in the world. But needless to say it has nothing to do with the current situation in Europe.

Henington seems to think that the resignation of Berlusconi, and the subsequent appointment of a technical government by President Napolitano, represents a kind of conspiratorial suspension of democracy or more ludicrously, a financial dictatorship. Lets get something clear, everything that was done was democratic and constitutional. Berlusconi resigned. This left a vacuum that the President had to fill. With the markets screaming for stability it would have been suicide to call elections. Napolitano did the right thing. He saved Italy.

And if Henington thinks that an election as soon as possible would be the best thing for Italy he is more off the map than usual. An election would plunge the country towards bankruptcy, something neither Europe or the global economy could afford.  

You have to understand something, the European Union is a work in progress. An experiment in grand economic and political power.  It is in the process of being created. This is its history. Decisions have to be made that serve that union, not the fragmentation of its individual states. The strength and stability of that union supersedes  tiring century-old democratic squabbling. The citizens of Europe need to keep quiet and let the experts steer the ship. They will make decisions that benefit the economy and in the end everyone. Stability is more important than democracy at this critical moment. They’ve said the Monti government will stay in power until 2013. I think this is positive, even longer would be better. They will get the tough reforms through. After that the politicians and citizens can go back to playing their sandpit democracy games.

My advice is to stick to writing about wine or travel or whatever other humorous subjects take your fancy. But don’t try to analyse a moment in history far beyond your intellectual reach.

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