Not good for Tessa Jowell either, tee hee!
An Italian? Cut a Govt budget! Dream on.
Italy's Govt costs more than most of the rest of the EU govts put together.
Nope Burlo's Nymph gland will have withered and gone, and he in a bath chair somewhere on the Costa Esmarelda, before he faces trial for anything at all.
I dunno, I never really found power lust an endearing trait, myself...
So much for Silvio.
I dunno, I never really found power lust an endearing trait, myself...
He was not his power lust that is endearing, it is his lack of hypocritical pretention about being anything other than what he is. He is a thief and does not seriously try to hide it.
To quote another Italian, Pope Leo X...
"Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it"
Nice pic. That chin-up pose is getting popular. Obama
seems to like it. A kind-of trademark of Il Duce.
Are they mounting teleprompters higher?
And, in the US, finger-poking seems more common.
I feel like they're offering me a contribution to my severed finger collection. Is it a lead-in to a new holiday
"International Pull My Finger Day" ?
It has been used in the past, of course; but, seems more, lately.
And, ties. Limp symbols of male disinterest with a knot
tied around one's own neck. Symbolism?
At least Silvio loves Italy and everything Italian. Our own dear leaders seem to have utter contempt for Britain and everything British.
Better to blow the money on high living than humourless Thought Control Officers.
I won't be especially sorry to see the back of our Silvio (in so far as it's any of my business), but please let nobody gain the impression he's being harassed out of office due to his egoism or corruption. There are plenty of politicians in Europe just as corrupt as he.
He's being hounded out of office for political incorrectness.
I agree: I detest hypocrisy much stronger than corruption. Besides, how can the existing system be truly corrupted when its existence itself is nothing but corruption of all that is decent and moral.
Well, hypocrisy is a sin alright, but a straight talking mobster isn't much better than a silver tongued one, though I suppose Silvio doesn't drive me as batty as the self styled Righteous do.
Whoever replaces him will be worse.
They will be just as corrupt, and just as venal: that goes with the territory. They will probably be a friend of the Men of Honour, which Berlusconi with all his faults probably is not. And they will certainly be an identikit left-liberal Eu-enthusiastic crypto-socialist, which Berlusconi is not either.
And whatever else, the gaiety of nations will be diminished.
I have always admired Berlusconi for his utter shamelessness. He puts two fingers up to the modern po-faced political establishment, and he does it with style.
Forza il Padrone!
There are plenty of politicians in Europe just as corrupt as he.
Can you think of an Italian Prime Minister who wasn't?
Yes but Johnathan - he's been here before and come back form it. There is a strong section of the community who believes in him and don't particularly like the justice system. They admire his furbo.