Government without strategy, the failure of thousands of SMEs and the risk of social anger
Speech by Raffaele Lauro, Unimpresa general secretary
Even the twelfth television appearance yesterday by Prime Minister Conte to illustrate, in detail, the new antivirus decree, better defined as the twelfth bulletin of the "government defeat" and the "drift of our country," confirmed the total lack of a The basic strategy of this executive is the absolute absence of a discourse of truth about the serious mistakes made in the spring, the irresponsible underestimation of the summer and the guilty decisions of this melancholy autumn. He has only spared us, his goodness, the self-celebrating pseudo-triumphalism of the so-called "Italian model"!
This lack of truth, after months of suffering of citizens and businesses, and after the absence of an assumption of responsibility, in the face of the national community, convinces more and more that, alongside the scourge of Covid 19, our country is suffering tragically a second virus, more lethal than the first, the "political-institutional virus" of a government in disarray, without a route, capable of creating only confusion, anguish and a mounting social anger, more and more explosive and dangerous. These new restrictive measures, enunciated amidst disguised threats and paternalistic, as useless as they are, recommendations, among other completely contradictory ones, will be able to avoid us finding under the Christmas tree the "gifts" of a total lockdown and the failure of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses? Doubts loom.
For his part, the imaginative Minister Gualtieri, after having taken care of and relaunched the economic recovery, solemnly promises the reimbursement of damages to the companies, affected by the new measures, which will be sent to current accounts by next November 15, without specify what this so-called refreshment consists of, its nature and extent.
Can we imagine what the reactions of the damaged entrepreneurs will be, starting with the restaurateurs, if they find themselves lacking, as in the past, however late, given that still today thousands of entrepreneurs and workers are waiting for the redundancy fund in May?
There is still someone, in the palaces of politics, who has even the slightest awareness of what devastating effect the non-fulfillment, as happened previously, of this and other commitments, on the part of the government, on morality and strength reaction from the world of work and business? As well as on social cohesion and even on public order? How much time will still have to pass and how much damage will this government still have to do before leaving the leadership of the country in safer, more experienced and more responsible hands?
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/il-governo-senza-strategia-il-fallimento-di-migliaia-di-pmi-e-il-rischio-di-rabbia-sociale/ on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:21:57 +0000.