Things are not going well, it would seem.  There’s the to-do about the illegal immigrant who was released from jail (but she WAS pretty and young), there’s the homophobic comment from the other day making headline news and then some prostitute has suggested that Mr B (Buzz Lightyear) paid her for sex which, I learnt, yesterday, is actually an illegal act (the paying for sex, that is).

The other problem is that Gianfranco Fini, one-time best mate of Buzz and, until recently, by his side in almost everything, a reformed neo-fascist, so it is said, keeps sniping at Buzz.  He’s formed another group (soon to be party?) but they aren’t quite ready for an election yet.  Instead of bringing the current government down, he is suggesting that Buzz should resign.  Buzz, on the other hand is suggesting that if Fini is any sort of ‘man’ he would force a new election (Buzz isn’t actually stupid, I guess, in spite of his antics and outpourings that point to the contrary).

But, what of the current global financial crisis and Italy, I hear you ask ………..

……………wait………….

WHAT CRISIS?

the government of pretending everything is going well

I just LOVE this quote from Fini, talking (yesterday or the day before) about the current government in Italy (ignoring the fact that, until very recently, he was actually part of it).  I only hope it is a faithful translation!

As I said to my colleague yesterday, the real problem here is who is to replace him?  There’s simply no one strong enough to do that, at least, not from my outside view.  Names are mentioned but it has to be someone who can bring a number of parties together and, unfortunately, there don’t seem many people able to do that here.