Grillo speaks in Brussels, many people get up to catch the plane

The guarantor of the M5S Beppe Grillo he cut his speech short at the conference on universal income organized by the Movement in a room of the European Parliament, in Brussels, when part of the audience got up to leave, while he had been speaking for about twenty minutes.

“The five things, written by terminally ill cancer patients, that you would have changed in your life: the first they all wrote was ‘I would have worked less, I would have read more, I would have cultivated my friendships’ – he was saying Grillo, in the room on the third floor of Palazzo Altiero Spinelli booked by MEPs Sabrina Pignedoli and Laura Ferrara, who welcomed him – what do you want to do with your life?”.

“If you talk – he continued – I have some old people in the countryside, where I live, who get a 500 euro pension, play bowls, have wood, a house, a vegetable garden and that’s it…”. At this point, dozens of people, on the right wing of the room, stood up in unison, taking jackets, bags and coats and heading towards the exit. “Where are you going? Oh? Stop, stop, finished, finished”, Grillo reacted. “What the f… – he continued, raising laughter in the room – okay, then I say goodbye…”.

The room gave him a round of applause and he stopped to take a few selfies with his followers. The many people who stood up, Pignedoli later explained, did so because “they had to catch the plane”. In any case, Grillo would still have had a few minutes to speak, because the room was booked by others starting from 4pm.