Honesty is not the best policy, in Italy.
4 viewsWhile reading the English version of Beppe Grillo’s wonderful blog I found a rather worrying entry, well, more worrying than the rest. Mr Grillo does not paint a wonderful picture of the Italian establishment at the best of times, but this was almost shocking.
From the entry here, it would appear that many of the country’s ‘leaders’ are indeed convicted criminals. 25 honourable members have actually been convicted of some rather interesting crimes, not the sort of non-payment of speeding fines thing, but more serious stuff.
How the heck these people can be charged with running a country is a little beyond me. In actual fact once a little political back scratching has been eliminated the number of IMPs who are either under investigation, have been investigated but got away as a result of time-barring laws, and who have actually been convicted the total comes to around 82, or around 10% of the Italian parliament.
Take a look at the list and see for yourself.
Now if anyone would like to offer me some gainful employment in the States or Canada, please will they get in touch. I pity the vast majority of Italians, they do not really deserve this.
As I said in a recent previous post - Italy is a great place for holidays.
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Sorry to break your bubble but there are two problems with moving here in the US - Gainful employment (official data at 4.6% but real somewhere above 10%) and thinking that politicians are different here.
Thanks for that David! You really cheered me up….but I know you are right.
Canada sounds innocuous…..
Speeding fine - can anyone tell me if the speeding fine we recieved 2 months after leaving Italy is genuine? We cannot understand it all but it seems they clocked us doing 78 in a 70 area, which surprised us. It was a hire car so presumably the hire company gave them our address but something about it looks like it might be a scam. any suggustions? thanks