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Giorgia Meloni became Italian Prime Minister on October 22, 2022, three days before "Liz" Truss resigned, so Andy Burnham will be her fourth British Prime Minister. Oh brave new world!

"Il sorpasso" (Italian for "the overtaking") was a term coined in the 1980s by the Italian press to describe Italy's economy surpassing Britain's in nominal GDP to become the world's sixth-largest economy.

Since joining the euro Italy's GDP has scarcely grown at all. I read that it had grown 3% not  a year but since 1999 but this is out of date - according to Google's AI its GDP in fact has only grown 1% since 1999.

 
Nevertheless GDP in Italy per capita (a measure of average individual wealth) is roughly equal to the UK's, though GDP is a pretty flawed concept anyway. Does this make sense to you? 


Politically Italy has far better leadership but Signora M has sold out, let in huge numbers of immigrants and has been an obedient US vassal until Mr Trump said she had begged for a photograph with him.