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So the universal party that welcomed the demise of Uncle Steptoe’s political career may have been a tad premature.   It now appears that it could well be  the parting of the ways only of Mr Toad and the PDL.     He has now ordered (here I have to say allegedly bearing in the…

As Maggie said – hang out the bunting, as Steptoe has decided that he will not remain as PdL candidate for PM – ‘ for the love of my country’.  It has obviously nothing to do with the fact that he is at around 6% in the polls. Careful with the bunting though …. within…

Poor Romney – he cant understand them.  Compared to Berlusconi of course, who yesterdaylet slip his new political party – the Fratelli d’Italia – Italian Brothers – and the first line of the national anthem.  This new party is not just a rehash of the PdL – sources say that Steptoe is no longer answering…

It’s all going terribly ‘forma di pera’ in Lombardy. The president of said region – Formigoni (never knowingly oversold and never seen in the same clothes twice) is mired ever deeper in the Lombardian oak. The latest disaster to overtake il Formigoni is not of his own making.  A worthy PDL (isnt is always?) deputy…

The magnanimity of uncle Steptoe is universally acknowledged, but even he has outdone himself this time.   The PDL is at a record low of 18% and is falling apart at the seams.  It isnow unelectable, and Steptoe has realised that he is a liability for the centre right.   Despite trying to push through…

I dont know where to begin.  There have been so many scandals and stories of Italian naughtiness that it was impossible to keep up.  So here’s my pick of the bunch – The Oliver Hardy tub of lard Fiorito, is in jail for spending public money with aplomb.  When he was finally handcuffed last week…

After the story of Voldemort Sallusti yesterday, the real author of the piece finally broke his silence.  The writer was not Voldemort himself but a PDL MP called Farini.  This disgraceful person owned up after watching someone else being sentenced for his appalling journalism and personal vendetta.   Now we know why.  Farini was Anonymous,…

This rather unpleasant individual who has the ring of Voldemort about him, is the ex-editor of the Berlusconi in house paper – Il giornale.  Yesterday he was sentenced to 14 months in prison for an article he wrote/published a few years ago about a judge.   Mr Sallusti says it is all a conspiracy and…

Italy is about to have its Gerald Ratner moment.  A lingerie company called Parah decided it wanted ALOT of publicity and hired ex dental nurse, Berlo bunny and now Lombard politician to mince around in their lingerie.   Minetti obviously said yes – on the basis that getting her bits out was helping Italian industry.…

La Polverini – or Dusty as she translates – has resigned from her lofty position as supreme leader of Lazio.  Not that she was the mayor, no Boris figure here but she was leader of Lazio – its like being the person in charge of the metropolitan district of Sheffield and Barnsley – but with…