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  • Et Tu

      Young Matteo Renzi – the Mr Bean lookeylikey of Italian politics, has succeeded in his his overweening ambition, to become PM – by not actually be elected, infact by not actually being a member of parliament..  He is of course merely mayor of  Florence, which goes well his Machiavellian political stance, as in just…

  • This is the week that is

    Its going to be a long week in politics.  Italy is once again limping from crisis to crisis, this time self inflicted by Renzi on his own party.   Letta, the PM – you know the only PM of a G20 to go and lick Putins icy bum at Sochi, is thinking of a reshuffle. …

  • Italicum

    The new election law has been christened the Italicum – it’s minor problem is that it isnt very democratic, in fact it has nothing of democracy about it.  And the plebs arent happy. Its premise is that whoeever reaches 37% of the vote gets a little help, in the shape of another 16% which gives…

  • some of the people some of the time

    here’s the premise:  The President of Italy wants the government to sort out a new electoral law before he will allow new elections. Progress – none.  For 3 years, they have done nothing.  Now the highest court in the land has declared the ‘porcellum’ electino law illegal, so it must be changed.  Napoletano can’t resign…

  • You can’t keep him down

    You think it’s all gone quiet and then a bit of news seeps out confirming that the Dark One is still moving under the surface.  He’s going to stand as ‘head of the list’ in all of Italy for the European elections – except that he’s not allowed to because he’s banned from public office,…

  • A parliamentary break

    Ive been away on a long parliamentary weekend .- How time flies when berlusconi isnt trying to be the centre of attention.  He is still at work behind the scenes though – trying to get a general election in the spring and pour huge amounts of money into the Great Forza Italia Bake Off 2.0…

  • And other news..

    So the saggy ancient one has returned to his lair to sup on virgins blood or some such, and in the quiet moments we have before he launches an anti European tirade, let’s catch up on some other news. The repellent Daniela Santanche has been found guilty of being deeply unpleasant and fined 1100 euros…

  • Pardon Me

    Its not so much a request as an order.  The old letcherous  one is mobilising his dervishes for the big vote this week, and the end of the world.   We have a demo against the magistrates, Silvio will pass to the opposition and declare war on Italy and his entire tv network will be…

  • The fan’s broke

    So much has hit the fan recently, that it has given up under the weight.  Last night, at only hours before Berlo’s launch of the new Forza Italia, it all went wrong.  Alfano (the dauphin or dolfin as he is called here (you will get the very animalistic terminology later)  – has split from Berlo…

  • The bottom of the barrel

    So lots of data being bandied around.  Ultimately it’s all depressing.  It is now officially easier to run a business in Botswana than in Italy.   Unemployment will rise further, the GDP will fall even more and Italy is now 23 out of 27 European countries for culture.   The usual argument of ‘it costs…