Posts by giovanni tiso
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(GIOVANNI TISO):"Milan is the centre of Berlusconi's empire...that's where the hardcore of his electoral support resides."
Ahhhh, but have you any evidence to back that up, Giovanni ? I mean, yeah of course his ownership of AC Milan (I'm an Inter fan, myself :-) ) and his early background in the city, but I'm not so sure you can call Milan a real stronghold for either (1) Berlusconi's People of Liberty party (POL) or (2) his broader Right-wing Coalition bloc as a whole.A whole swathe of northern Italy - especially the smaller, wealthy cities in Lombardy, the Veneto and, to a lesser extent, Piedmont - gave the Berlusconi Right coalition more support (close to or more than 60%) than Milan (around 52%) in 2008. The coalition also took more than 60% in large parts of staunchly conservative/Catholic Sicily and in the Latina province (southern hinterland of Rome).
None of those places - even Sicily which is a major reservoir of votes - comes close to matching the importance that Milan plays in the Berlusconi empire. That's where he cut his teeth as a businessman, first in the construction sector then in media, and it's a major centre of power and the ultimate political big prize - everything else being equal, votes in Milan are worth more than anywhere else because ruling Milan gives you access to more resources and wealthier supporters. I'm sure he's pleased to clean the floor with his opponents in Latina, but that's not the true test of his strength.
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Aww shucks, it's fans like you that keep me olive year after year.
I don't even have to duck to miss that one. Bless my charming naivety.
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Thank you for a wonderful year of blogging, Emma.
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You're trying to get them to mate with pandas, aren't you?
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I thought bullying was banned in schools.
Oh boy... where does one start?
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automagically
Where has this word been all my life?
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Actually, I was being sarcastic. I considered adding a smiley to that effect.
ETA: What I meant is that Emma was obviously also being sarcastic, just to be overly clear.
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I presume the comments in the other post are not enabled on purpose, se let me just say here: fantastic summation.
I recoiled a bit reading Peter Wells' post but it ought to be commended for being so uncompromising just as everybody else is so busy forgetting the incident ever happened. And so should you.
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Or indeed recognising it.
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.Oh yeah, let's eviscerate Wellington.
On the other hand, who's never driven into Levin thinking man, I wish I could have got here 23 minutes earlier?