I recently discovered that the Queen Mum is dead. I did so by stumbling into a rather moving Board of Rembrance hanging in the members bar of the British parliament, to which I was recently elected to replace disgraced Tory Jonathan Aitken.
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Italian PM and crooked crooner, media magnate and tryant, Silvio Berlusconi, will hopefully be turfed from office within the next 48 hours.
Maybe then he'll get his punk arse thrown in gaol -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4793070.stm
Recently his behaviour has been erratic, Accusing his opponents of being “communist baby-eaters and baby-boilers” who “worship Stalin and Pol Pot”, and claiming “I trust the intelligence of the Italian people too much to think that there are so many testicles around who would vote against their own best interests.” - leading to a protest in Rome chasing him chanting “we are testicles”.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4707368.stm)
Even erotic - saying “seven out of nine” sex chat line girls he has called say they will vote for him.
His opponent, Romano Prodi, might be on to something…
“The prime minister clings to data in the way a drunkard clings to lamp-posts - not for illumination, but to keep him standing up.”
This election, ex-pat Italian citizens are voting for the first time. And soon, anyone with ONE Italian grandparent will be eligilble to be a citizen. I missed the boat this time, but in a few years will be voting in the Italian election myself!
The Italian diaspora is rising!