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The unearthly silence is self imposed – not a squeak from Berlo before the result ofhis appeal next week, and then all hell will break loose. If he is found guilty, then Italy will fall to bits – the right will scream commiefix and the left will ask how they can be in a coalition…

The Kazak affair gets filthier, while the entire government closes ranks.   We now know that the horde of police who arrived to arrest the wife and child of the Kazak dissident, was made up largely of Kazak secret service thugs.  Not only – one two occasions prior to the ‘arrest’ and subsequent deportation, the…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/07/italian-politics-1 Nursultan Nazarbayev’s chum in Italy Jul 16th 2013, 11:56 by J.H. | ROME SILVIO BERLUSCONI’S party, the People of Freedom (PdL) movement, is beginning to discover the leverage it enjoys as part of a fragile government. Every time one of the PdL’s leaders is jeopardised, it threatens to walk out of Enrico Letta’s left-right coalition.…

SO Calderoli has apologised.  Very half heartedly.   It was, he says, an aesthetic judgement.  (WHich is now sexist too).   Maroni, the leader of the Lega and president of Lombardy says the case is closed.   The President of the Republic – Napolitano – deplores the ‘barbarianism’ of these people and the LEga attack…

It runs through Italy from the smallest comune to the house of commons.  The politicians spend their days huddled in cliques discussing politics.   Its largely the fault of the system, wherein you need various alliances to be able to do anything, but in Italy it has been taken to the ‘n’th level.  In my…

Now la Santanche has declard herself to be Berlo’s pythoness, which is a bit rich for a fishwife of silicon proportions – however she is hoping to voted VP of the Senate today – and of course if she isn’t she will raise merry hell, and show herself off to be the brat she is.…

While mr Bean Matteo Renzi consolidates his position as leader in waiting for the left of centre coalitions, the fight is on to take over from Silvio on the right. Mariiiiiiiiiiina is up there, enthusiastically supported by Miss Piggy, but the most vicious attack on her comes from the pugnacious little Brunetta, who wails that…

This is the future of the right in Italy.  She is being groomed, combed and slapped to protect the Berlusconi name in all its glory and to defeat Matteo Renzi and stop a communist takeover.   She is Marina – (cue thunderbirds/Captain Scarlett music) Mariiiiinnnaaaaa – Berlusconi, top daughter, head of Mondadori, faithful inheritor of…

Ive been a bit quiet, I know – but Ive been waiting for this government to DO SOMETHING.  Since we have Letta as PM now for 2 months, one would dare to think that something, anything might have been done for this poor flailing failing country.  But all we have since the elections in February…

Are they by any chance related???   I loved that bit in Flash where Ming lost it and shouted ‘More  Hot Hail’.  I was reminded of it yesterday watching DOM Silvio slowly falling to pieces, as his world of yes men and brown noses slowly falls to pieces as one trial after another comes up…