Friday 21 January 2011

The Italians do scandal MUCH better than us...

I tell you what, the scandals sweeping Italy about their PM's alleged indiscretions make our Politicians' infidelities and foibles look positively prosaic. Not for Snr Berlusconi some middle-aged, John Major and Edwina Currie type affair with a colleague's wife, kept quiet until you were safely out of the public gaze. Oh no. He goes for a 17-year-old 'It-girl' widely known as 'Ruby the Heart-Stealer', a proper name for a PM's mistress if ever I heard one.

If you're going to lose your iron grip on power due to a sex scandal, you might as well go the whole hog and have the world find out that you wanted her dressed as a nurse, and that she'd get 'as much money as she wanted' to keep quiet. Nope - better go on telly and refute every single lurid detail, one at a time, just in case anybody in Italy hadn't heard them all. And she, of course, is just the latest of a string of them.

I realise that I probably shouldn't find this quite as amusing as I do, given that it's yet another example of a man in power abusing his position monstrously, and especially given the age of the girl involved. But when a man who's already legendary for his infidelities and crookedness still tries to retain power when it's come to this, frankly the only recourse you have left is to laugh at him.

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