Italy: as big a joke as Greece

Imagine the Monster Raving Looney Party getting a quarter of the votes in Thursday’s by-election at Eastleigh. (Mind you, that’s what a lot of Tory toffs consider UKIP to be!) That’s the equivalent of what’s happened in Italy’s parliamentary election when the electorate voted against paying off what it owes and voted for “anyone but the guy making the cuts”. Well, if they were trying to upset the Germans, the paymasters of the eurozone, they’ve done a brilliant job!