So it’s not just the Maya who can make prophecies. I predict that monti will stand and take the centre ground. The AN will splinter and take the hard right. The left with Bersani will have a hard time keeping their share, and will inevitably drift to the left. The IDV of Di Pietro will be annihilated at the polls. Casini and his centrist UDC will become an irrelevance.
And on the subject of prophecies – Italy’s hero Giuseppe Garibaldi – he of the biscuits, Nottingham football team strip and ‘unifier of Italy’ said just before he died – ‘I dreamed of a country I could be proud of, and here we are with a state ruled by the dregs of society’. Right on Baldi…