Exactly the sort of thing Nigel Farage has accused the EU of doing.
Silvio called himself a “socialist” when I first read about him as an Italian media magnate who featured porn on his fledgling television channels back around 1980.
He’s a political survivor who became more of a capitalist champion when his media empire prospered and dominated Italian television.
Now with UKIP and the National Front leading the polls for the EU elections later this month in the UK and France he’s making the speech that fits the moment.