Italiafile – for italophiles.

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…

The one thing the Italian public is agreed upon is the end to public financing of political parties.  Yesterday Letta and the bipartisan government signed their own death warrant with a DDL that indeed ends the financing of parties on the basis of a pay per vote system.  You would think the Italians would be…

Its now 90 odd days since the general election, and a goodly month since we have a government, if the bunch of self congratulatory smuggers can be called that.  And yet, strangely, nothing has happened.   In fact since Monti gave up on the ungrateful hordes 6 months ago they have enacted one thing –…

A packed two days. Sunday – Gabanelli the excellent journalist who does ‘Report’ did a programme about transparency.  5 star and Beppe Grillo came in for some hard questions about their party funding – cue howls from Grillo who says – ‘but we nominated her for president of the Repubblic’-  They did its true, and…

He’s got a lot to answer for.  Forget the WMD (he has), forget the best buddy with George Bushel and e peck, forget the conversion to Rome – my beef is that he changed it all.   It seems that any supposed left of centre, centre, bit to the right of centre aspiring politican must…

Things are getting bad if not worse. Mr Berlusconi (you will see the reason for my respect later) is preparing for an election. Yesterday the first thing the PDL suggested for the new government was the attempt to introduce a law against phone taps – as you can guess a thing of immediate importance to…