Careless Tories!

[ramAnag]

Just a personal view on this but, if there was a way he could be banned from ever standing for public office again, I'd back it to the hilt.

Totally agree...unfortunately you only have to look at Milan yesterday to see how these things can be all too easily forgotten. Berlusconi was banned, in the way you suggest, and yet yesterday he received a State Funeral...albeit with no foreign dignitaries in attendance.

[swaledale]

Totally agree...unfortunately you only have to look at Milan yesterday to see how these things can be all too easily forgotten. Berlusconi was banned, in the way you suggest, and yet yesterday he received a State Funeral...albeit with no foreign dignitaries in attendance.

I'm not sure they ahve been forgotten rA, but Berlusconi was in power for a lot longer than Johnson in any case and is still held in high regard by many Italians. He was one could say thepioneer of this right wing populistic politics, even extending to changing the law when in power to remove criminal charges against him.

But as history shows, voters seem to ignore these leaders issues around corruption and rule breaking for some reason known only to themselves. Hopefully the British electorate isn't that dumb but I wouldn't hold my breath!

[MadAmster]

Totally agree...unfortunately you only have to look at Milan yesterday to see how these things can be all too easily forgotten. Berlusconi was banned, in the way you suggest, and yet yesterday he received a State Funeral...albeit with no foreign dignitaries in attendance.

I did raise a smile at the ACM Ultras doing "if ya dunt chuffin bahns yer a commie" or Italian words to that effect.

I also smiled at there being no designated successor to his Forza throne. I then outright laughed when it was reported that his heirs were arguing like hell over who inherits what. As ever, he's leaving chaos in his wake...