"In London, Italians, like all foreigners, will be "more welcome than ever".
He ensures it Shaun Bailey, the London mayoral candidate of the Conservative Party in the next municipal elections in an interview with the website of Esharelife, the English charity foundation founded and chaired by the Tuscan Maurizio Bragagni, managing director of Tratos UK, the Italian-British multinational of high-performance cables technology with factories in Italy and the United Kingdom and a branched presence all over the world.
At the foundation, which among other things supports an AVSI project in a very poor area of Kenya allowing a thousand children to have an education and learn job skills, Bailey tells his story as "the son of Jamaican immigrants, father of two children and raised in a very poor environment "who, after working with disadvantaged young people and drug addiction problems in the" lower neighborhoods "of the British capital, chose to engage in politics in the Conservative party until becoming special adviser to former premier David Cameron in Downing Street.
"The world - explains Bailey - it was welcomed in London long before the European Union existed, and it will be welcome in the future as well. The Italian who live and work here must not allow Labor Party politicians to tell them that London does not want them because of Brexit. Brexit has nothing to do with how we want to see the world. If you belong to the Italian community, for example, you have never arrived here in the last 20, 30, 40 or 50 years: a large Italian community has been here for hundreds and hundreds of years. Let's not forget that in fact, it was the ancient Romans who founded London, our city. I would like it to be clear to Italians that when I am Mayor of London they will be more welcome than ever ”.
In this regard Bailey announces his piano "to create 924 jobs over the next five years. Of course, many of those places will go to our Italian community which is already here in London, to the people who come here from Italy and from all over the world. I want a London that is a crossroads for the world. The Town Hall will be the place where the world meets and where the world does business in friendship. In Shaun Bailey's London, Italy and the rest of the world will be more welcome than ever ”.