Italiafile – for italophiles.

Elections are a rum do.  Onthe one hand we have the ancient Silvio promising (repromising)  the Bridge across the straits of Messina and a Marshall Plan for the south and Sicily, whilst on the other we have a Sicily which is deliberately cutting itself off from its major source of income, ie. tourism.    The…

It’s going to be a busy few months – the powers that be have decided that there will be a national election on 4 March, and the catcalling has already begun.  More immediate is the great plastic bag mystery that is being perpetrated on the Italian people. All of a sudden in December we were…

So Musumeci and the vast coalition of the right won Sicily,  with a combination of disparate groups who are already disagreeing.  The 5 Stars came second – a single party which had requested independent checks on the veracity of the election.   Within 24 hours, a newly elected deputy for the coalition had been arrested…

The count has started to determine who will be the new president of Sicily.   IT seems that it’s a run off between Musumeci for  Forza Italia and Cancelleri for M5S.   Renzi’s PD has been demolished – in fact all the left wing together doesn’t even amount to 25%.  So , while Berlo did…

There’s a growing sense of febrility  as elections near.  First off, there’s the new election law at national level.  This had been consigned to the bin once Renzi had lost the vote last December, but the growing threat of hte M5S has meant all the established parties have suddenly become very keen to pass a…

Rentagob Vittorio Sgarbi has decided to run as the President of Sicily.   Trumpism has arrived in the Mezzogiorno.   not content with going on any old tv programme to deride and insult people,  and seemingly unhappy with his legacy as Mayor of Salemi he has decided that Sicily needs him.   We should be…

It’s been hard to work up any bile against a country that I have elected to be my home recently.  it’s been much easier to stare open mouthed at the telly watching Teresa May and Donald Trump fuck up the entire notion of western civilisation.  Once I stopped lauging myself stupid, and reached the ‘is…

The PD is about to implode Corbyn like and follow the same downward trajectory and its mainly the fault of this man: Massimo D’Alema ex PM and perennial politico who goes around with the airs and graces of a saint and a general holier than thou expression.   It all comes down to Renzi so…

This is the new Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni  – he’s been in the job for 2 months but nobody knows who he is.   While he presides over the disintegration of the Partito Democratico, an economy with growth lower than Greece, and A San Remo winning song that is sub telly tubbies we are told…

There’s been a shift of emphasis, seeing that the Berlo tragedy is now being played out across the pond.  Italians are all rather placid about the Yuge handed one, becuase they’ve seen it all before.   Blatant lies which are denied the following day notwithstanding video evidence,  cries of politicised judges,  laws ad personam, presenile…