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Its down to the wire. Nick O’mericano – or Cosentino as he is called is the ‘camorra front man’ of Campania, and has had his arrest quashed twice by parliament, and is indicted of favouring the Camorra to the extent of ‘being their representative in Campania’ The PDL dont want him as a candidate. He…

The word democracy is bandied about with abandon in Italy – but these elections are probably the least democratic ever held.  Only Beppe Grillo is actually doing the hustings thing.  All the others think that answering 5 questions on twitter from primary school children fulfills their obligations.  They spend hours in radio and tv studios…

Steptoe is still appearing on tv every day, we can only hope he exhausts himself long before the election – being 76 years old must take its toll.  In the meantime we are treated to his pearls of wisdom which lately include: 1. Divorce settlement – was decided by feminist and communist judges, and therefore…

So in order to get an alliance with the Lega Nord, Mr Toad has had to promise that he wont be PM if the right win the election.  He will therefore ONLY be Minister of the Economy, with the lizardlike Alfano being PM.  On paper.  Everyone knows that Alfano will have Berlo’s hand so far…

It’s been an interesting 10 days in Italian politics.   Monti has decided to stand, although this being Italy, he can’t actually stand because he is a senator, so he can promote a list which if it wins will ask him to be PM.   Mr Toad has been doing the daily rounds of his…

Now it seems that Monti may not stand after all .  He’s been cut to the quick by the nasty words of other politicians and now he may stay home and sulk.  Mr Toad has been up on high horse complaining that Monti hasnt even picked upt the phone to call him – All of…

Uncle Steptoe has begun the election campaign on his own.  It helps that he is the owner of half the terrestrial tv stations in ITaly, as he is using them as his platform for the election.   Sunday saw him talk for an interminable hour on Domenica In, and yesterday – to coincice with ROberto…

The pro-Monti PDL had a rally yesterday afternoon, and to steal their thunder Steptoe decided to appear on one of his own channels at exactly the same time.  Interviewed by a tame ‘journalist’ he gave full vent to his version of reality, which increasingly seem to be rantings of a man with the onset of…

The elected representatives of the PDL and Lega in Lombardy have been naughty.  We wait to see if all the other parties are in it up to their necks, but its a fair bet they are.   Their collectiveness naughtiness lies in teh reclaiming of expenses from party fund – (ie party funs given by…

It’s getting silly now.  Old Mr Toad is so busy hedging his bets, he makes no sense.  Yesterday he hijacked a press conference for the new Bruno Vespa book ( no1 brown nosed journalist fan anf author of 3 books a year that make Jeffrey Archer look like a researcher) and told us that he…