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Italy elects ultra right wing crook again
BillieTheBot
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/italy1
So the question is, are these people masochists, or do they actually share Berlusconi's rather unpleasant views and beliefs, and approve of his dirty dealings?
Maybe it is the former. This is going to be the 62nd government formed in 63 years (I kid you not) so perhaps the Italians simply see government as a form of opera.
Oh well. Like a certain former ruler of Italy (and I suspect secret hero of his) perhaps Berlusconi will at least ensure the trains run on time :rolleyes:
So the question is, are these people masochists, or do they actually share Berlusconi's rather unpleasant views and beliefs, and approve of his dirty dealings?
Maybe it is the former. This is going to be the 62nd government formed in 63 years (I kid you not) so perhaps the Italians simply see government as a form of opera.
Oh well. Like a certain former ruler of Italy (and I suspect secret hero of his) perhaps Berlusconi will at least ensure the trains run on time :rolleyes:
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Gone (so its said) are the days of endless deals and ever changing governments.
In Italy's case it is just on a larger scale by one man and not a group. Frankly just because he is smart enough to succeed isn't something i shall hold against him.
actually although I can't vouch for the man and his past after living under his goverment for 5 years I found I was no worse off if anything he was trying to make Italy more like the UK (ok thats not a great idea but...) as soon as the oposition got back in they directly reversed anything good he did theres no need to just kick the shit out of berlusconi the oposition should be dead, I'm not refering to his past but what he and his oponents have done in current politics, this is a country whoes goverment care that much about heath and saftey (while we over do it) that 1350 people a year die on the job thats 4-5 a day. politics there IS musical chairs basically its a case of which is the worse of the two ? the place i lived in is under the oposition, members of the council are in with the mafia so hear both sides of the story before knocking the man.
his oponent whilst president of the european parliment made a deal to sell the good italian rice to a german company who sold it under their name and pakaging while we were given the crap german rice in italian branded pakaging, I just wonder how much that deal made him but I suppose over here your not bothered with things like that are you but that is what affects te people. if he is disliked because of his success well its the same old story in italy no one likes to see anyone get on, I remeber taking a picture with my telephoto lens of a distant group of windmills along the motorway that a group of italians were also trying to fathom out but could hardly see them hefty words were used in comments about that "person" (me) was getting a better view than them, they were too stupid to think that I may be fluent in italian. my life in school there was hell just because I made a small effort after being there for 6 months I could read a damn site better than the other 10 year olds in the class, if anything berlusconi is hated more out of jelousy than anything he did wrong
The smoking ban that Britain has however goes a lot further than Italy's. In Italy, separate rooms with smoking are allowed in bars/pubs/etc. Same in Spain, Germany and much of Europe. Britain/Ireland are the exception really in having really extreme blanket total bans on smoking. (Even in the States cigar bars and hookah bars are often exempt).