italiafile
a jaundiced view of the workings of modern Italy – lo stato dello stato
  • Home
  • /
  • Uncategorized

Pacts and prats

Beppe Grillo and Nigel Farage are considering a Europarliamentary pact.  Its as Faustian as could be, and here in Italy its making waves.  M5S the ‘movement’ (woe betide anyone who calls it a politcial party), is about to commit political suicide at the behest of its leader Beppe Grillo.   The notion of liquid democracy has solidified.  Grillo went off to Brussels to meet his new best mate without the say so of the membership who vote online for these things, and unsurprisingly the membership aren’t happy.  The M5S has a power base of young disaffected liberals, not the natural allies of UKIP.  Nor will it be easy reconciling the basic tenets of M5S philosophy – state wage for all,  getting rid of the present system, etc –  Grillo has common ground on Europe – (stop interfering) and immigration (neither like it very much, but for different reasons).  If Grillo goes ahead unilaterally there will be an internal uprising in the M5S – there are already alot of disaffected members following Grillo’s election campaign of insulting everyone.  How UKIP will cope with a pact with the Ities is anyone’s guess.  It’s all turning ugly.

Not quite as ugly as the war of words within Forza Italia.  Berlo is trying to head off the irrresistible rise of Ubu Fitto, the young pretender – who wants primaries within the party.  Berlo announces that Forza Italia ahs always been open and democratic, that it’s his party and he will do what he likes.  Silvio doesnt quite see the contradiction there.  His new lapdog – Toti – the ex head of news for TG4, one of Berlo’s tv stations is trying to consolidate his position and therefore disagrees with everything Fitto says.

And then there’s the RAI – Italian public telly – which ihas been showing a disgraceful ‘public information film’ about how it is the leader in Europe – thereby ignoring its statute of giving information.   Helpfully ignoring all statistics, Rai tells us that it has the biggest audiences in Europe and has the lowest licence fee.   It omits the fact that it has continual ad’s,  makes only a few hours of telly and imports tat from everywhere else, lags miserably behind the Beeb and German public telly in its scope and achievements.

Posted on 03/06/2014 by rammers. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
It’s what it seems
Foghorn Leghorn

    Search

    Recent Posts

    • Lockdown 2.0
    • Illegal in instalments
    • We're moving
    • What would Jeremy Hunt do?
    • Replay

    Archives

    • November 2020
    • September 2018
    • July 2018
    • May 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018
    • January 2018
    • November 2017
    • October 2017
    • September 2017
    • June 2017
    • February 2017
    • September 2016
    • July 2016
    • April 2016
    • March 2016
    • February 2016
    • December 2015
    • November 2015
    • October 2015
    • September 2015
    • August 2015
    • July 2015
    • June 2015
    • May 2015
    • April 2015
    • March 2015
    • February 2015
    • January 2015
    • December 2014
    • November 2014
    • October 2014
    • August 2014
    • July 2014
    • June 2014
    • May 2014
    • April 2014
    • March 2014
    • February 2014
    • January 2014
    • December 2013
    • November 2013
    • October 2013
    • September 2013
    • August 2013
    • July 2013
    • June 2013
    • May 2013
    • April 2013
    • March 2013
    • February 2013
    • January 2013
    • December 2012
    • November 2012
    • October 2012
    • September 2012
    • August 2012
    • July 2012
    • June 2012
    • May 2012
    • March 2012
    • February 2012
    • January 2012
    • December 2011
    • November 2011
    • October 2011
    • September 2011
    • August 2011
    • June 2011
    • May 2011
    • April 2011
    • March 2011
    • February 2011
    • December 2010
    • November 2010
    • October 2010
    • September 2010
    • July 2010
    • June 2010
    • May 2010
    • April 2010

    Meta

    • Log in
We've moved

We’ve moved…..

find us at www.italiafile.com

 

Powered by