As I predicted.
Yes, as I predicted back in June, here, that nice Mr Prodi and his cronies have gone and decided to put up tax levels - but only if you earn over 70k Euros or are self-employed. In addition, in view of the extra tax income, the dear government is attempting to cut education funding too. I guess that these little measures may help Italy crawl out of its pit of national debt.
And, further t0 my little post on the subject of having to settle tax demands on-line (Just scroll down) from the 1st October, there has already been a ‘giro-tondo’ - ‘ring of roses’(!!??) down in Rome. Those participating were predictably, small business men and, perhaps less predictably, accountants. These people are being, not surprisingly, egged on by certain members of some of the opposition political parties.
Let’s see how long the goverment can hold out for. Prodi is already starting to rock plenty of boats and is doing things that other members of his fragile coalition are not too keen on. This type of approach usually results in yet another collapsed Italian government, but to be honest there is no way you can avoid boat rocking when your coalition consists of a whole host of weeny little parties with rather diverse points of view . You have to hand it to Mr B, he certainly managed to keep a tight rein on his coalition members. How he did this is not entirely clear. It may be best not to ask either.
BSOD again
My darling new laptop regaled me with yet another jolly memory parity error blue screen of death message today. Tomorrow I shall give Dell another tinkle and see if they will let me exchange my RAM. Parity to the people!
Accosted, I was!
Whilst waiting for my public transport of choice this evening I was accosted by a tall dark attractive female stranger who first offered to give me a lift wherever I was heading, in English, I might add, and then she asked me which way I was going. This, very tall, lady of African extraction, I would guess, was quite insistent, though not aggressive. Being a sensible, sometimes, sort of guy, I politely declined her kind offer and was somewhat relieved to see my bus coming round the corner. I deftly hopped on and away. The whole, very minor, incident left me rather bemused.
I’ve had some funny things happen to me, but that was one of the oddest for quite some time, I can tell you.
Had you been in my shoes, dear reader, what would you have done?
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