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The English papers have been writing about how Livorno (Leghorn) has dramatically dropped its ‘red’ mayor and turned to Beppe Grillo’s M5S as some sort of indicator of Italy’s political system.  Its unfortunate they didnt explain it.   In the first round of elections the PD candidate and incumbent got 49.6% of the vote, the…

Beppe Grillo and Nigel Farage are considering a Europarliamentary pact.  Its as Faustian as could be, and here in Italy its making waves.  M5S the ‘movement’ (woe betide anyone who calls it a politcial party), is about to commit political suicide at the behest of its leader Beppe Grillo.   The notion of liquid democracy…

Silvio’s Forza Italia brought home 16% in the elections, which according to Voldemort is because he wasnt allowed to run a normal election campaign because he is a convicted criminal.  But all is not lost.  Raffaele Fitto  – the young pretender – managed to get the largest single preference vote in Italy from his base…

The woman with Moldevort in this pic is none other than the new treasurer of Forza Italia Maria Rosaria Rossi.   A new treasurer only a week before the elections that will bring home the worst result for Silvio in the last 20 years.  It looks as though the ancient one is protecting himself against…

Silvio is furious, disgusted, let down and even more furious.  Some American penpusher has written his autobiography about his days in the White House and let slip that there was a request from Europe to make Silvio fall from grace.   Obama didnt want to know apparently, but Silvio did resign under duress on 11/11/2011…

Another bad day for Italy. Marcello dell’Utri had his conviction confirmed and the extradition from Lebanon becomes formalised.  He decides he is a political prisoner. Scajola – the ex economy minister who had a flat bought for him in Rome without him knowing about it has been arrested for helping a wanted man get from…

An ugly week even without politics.   There was the shooting of a fan at the football final on Saturday by an unknown hand.  He is in intensive care, and a copper was shot in the hand apparently.  Noone knows whether there was one gun or two and whose finger was on the trigger.  In…

With the elections on 25 May things are turning nasty.   Renzi is due to play in a charity football match with various VIPS which will be televised on Rai, except that the 5Star have decided that its against election rules about equal tv time for politicians – and have banned the televising of the…

Silvio went to see the President yesterday – superficially to discuss reform, but he actually wanted a bit of help from Napoitano to get off the hook.  His sentence is due on the 10th, and he wants a pardon, and now he will lick anything and anyone to get it.   So desperate is he,…

  One of Silvio’s magazines published the above photo, showing Silvio and Vladi best of chums, at Silvio’s pad.  It’s unsurprising that Berlo has therefore come out against the EU and US stance against Putins expansionism – after all he will have quite a lot to lose personally if the rumours are true.   SB…