A few weeks ago George Galloway, Respect party MP for Bethnal Green & Bow, claimed that when Britain was 90% white and without benefit of the multicultural society we have today, all you could have was fish and chips.
The idea that thousands of ‘ethnic’ restaurants and kebab takeaways in this country is an improvement, is a moot point, but it seems someone is backing the views of British nationalists.
BNs will be delighted to hear that new pizza takeaways and kebab outlets are to be banned in the historic centre of the northeastern Italian city of Venice for the next two years in a bid to safeguard the city’s cultural heritage. The city council has ruled against the issue of any new licences for takeaway food outlets in an area from St Mark’s square to the famous Rialto bridge until December 2011.
According to the local daily Il Gazzettino, Venice mayor, Massimo Cacciari, a former communist, said a proliferation of pizza and kebab takeaway outlets was contributing to the “impoverishment” of restaurants and affecting the quality of the architecture in the city’s historic centre.
The council said its decision is designed to preserve the historic and artistic heritage of the city and the future of its precious tourism market.
This ban is certain to provoke more debate in Italy where conservative government ministers have already backed a campaign against ethnic food elsewhere in the country.
Earlier this year Luca Zaia, minister of agriculture and a member of the Northern League from the Veneto region surrounding Venice, applauded local authorities in the northern city of Milan and the Tuscan town of Lucca for restricting non-Italian food outlets.
“We stand for tradition and the safeguarding of our culture,” he said.
The Venice measure was proposed by Giuseppe Bortolussi, the councillor responsible for local commerce, and approved by the city council last week.
It will affect half the 24 commercial zones in the city of Venice.
Will the UK follow their example in the near future?
We hope so, and if self/white-loathing, liberals like Gorgeous Gorge Catman Galloway and all of his ilk (fish and chip hating) leave this country for good, it will be the best thing to have happened in this country in the last 50 years.
GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS
