Italiafile – for italophiles.

3 excoriating stories to show the shame and disgrace of Italy’s politicians.1 – the Senate has decided to rescind the law banning the fascist party2 – the defence secretary tells the speaker of the house to F^*+ Off in the Chamber3- Its Ruby day, and Berlusconi is saved again by the majority voting that the…

I had to take a break, my pulse raced too much and i was just getting too angry with it all – so, given the fact that I cant even vote in Italy, I thought i would retire for a couple of weeks and let it all wash over me.    The big news of…

So, Berlusconi’s latest ploy is to change the law to ‘regive’ himself immunity and avoid the trials he has.  How he can be quite so blatant is beyond me, there is not an ounce of grace, tactics, or political knowhow, or above all -self respect in that man.  ANd the worst of it all is…

So Berlusconi is ready to sue the state – it is like Communist East Germany he says, and then admits, ‘I’m a sinner’ – as if we didnt know.  Italy has now been without an effective government since last June.  With the request for immediate justice by the prosecuting magistrates we now have a further…

Whatever I may have thought over the years of the British political system,it pales into insignificance this week with the mounting hysteria and chase for votes for the vote of confidence next Tuesday.  How can members of the morally upright IDV return to the Berlusconi fold?  People who left the PDL earlier this year now…

Two weeks to the confidence vote and Berlusconi promises that the rubbish of Naples will disappear ‘within 14 days’.  Elsewhere the government is bleating that Wikileaks, the reporting of the state of Pompei, and Naples rubbish amounts to a concerted campaign to make Italy look bad.  The self absorbed Mr B doesnt realise perhaps that…

The Pope gave a talk yesterday from his window about the need to change our First World mentality – put the brakes on capitalism to protect the poor – stop our cities becoming places for only the super rich.  This would be the same Vatican that has evicted poor and disabled folk from their church…

So Berlusconi (and Emilio Fede) is by his own admission a dirty old man, now teetering on the edge of paedophilia, and today has outed himself as a homophobe – and he still doesnt see that he is a pathetic laughing stock of a man who doesnt deserve to be Prime Minister.  We can only…

The signs of presenile dementia are there – and Berlo does it again.  Two videos in one day of Berlusconi in public making antisemitic jokes, blaspheming (which in italy is the only thing that gets you thrown off Big Brother) and telling sexist jokes about members of parliament.  His lawyer, the vile Ghedini, says that…

The Saint Lucia document which damns Fini is getting more interesting by the minute.   If only we had The Guardian in Italy.  The Minister for Economics who says he wrote the letter and leaked it to the press (in one swoop ruining the country’s economy as a tax haven where revealing the account holders…