The Enigma that is and was Berlusconi

OK now he has decided to go but – What will life be like without Berlusconi?
Obviously from an Italian perspective, a more focussed and professional parliamentary centre piece will take his place  – but from your ordinary John Doe or John Smith in the UK, life will be a tad boring.

Berlusconi is a hero ( Fabbydoo’s opinion). A young lad who has never seemed to accept the miles on the clock.
Born in 1936 Berlusconi is Italy’s third richest man, estimated to own assets worth $9 billion in 2010, in the fields of television, newspapers, publishing, cinema, finance, banking, insurance, and even sport.[Berlusconi’s main company, Mediaset, comprises three national television channels, which together cover approximately a half of the national television sector; and Publitalia, the leading Italian advertising and publicity agency. His brother, Paolo Berlusconi, owns and operates il Giornale, a centre-right wing newspaper which provides a strong pro-Berlusconi slant on Italy and its politics. Il Foglio, one of the most influential Italian right-wing newspapers, is partially owned by his ex-wife, Veronica Lario. Berlusconi is also the owner of the European football club A.C. Milan which along with Boca Juniors has won the most FIFA recognized international club titles in the world.
With a past that has included playing bass in a band, performing on cruise ships and songwriting, Berlusconi has allegedly sang a more scary tune with alleged Mafia links.

Photo taken from metro newspaper 4th nov 2011

On top of this, his affairs are renowned, his wife divorced him. Berlusconi was explicitly named as a person involved in the “commercial sexual exploitation of a Moroccan child by the Us State Department in 2011.

So I’m afraid to say that without the man the daily newspaper will taste a bit dry.

Remember this? –
Promising to put family values at the centre of his campaign for the April 2006 general election:
“I will try to meet your expectations, and I promise from now on, two-and-a-half months of absolute sexual abstinence, until [election day on] 9 April.” He later insisted the pledge was “just a joke”.

“quod homo”

Malcolm McNeill
Fabbydoo

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