Babies make good fertiliser- apparently!
You’ve got to love Berlusconi’s new tactics. The election plan of rubbing shoulders with the great and the (not so) good wasn’t winning the election, so clearly a new tactic was needed: try and offend as many people as you can before the vote. Last week he attacked the business community, this week he’s taken on China.
At the weekend he said that the Chinese Communists “didn’t eat babies but boiled them to fertilise the fields.”
Berlusconi’s also done wonders for Italy’s tourist industry.
The US decided to warn their citizens that there could be violence and terrorism in Italy in the run up to election. Any other leader would have condemned that accusation, saying that Italy was a peaceful nation, that terrorism will not be a threat. Not Berlusconi. He decided to say “if I were an American, I, too, would be worried.” Well Berlusconi you should be worried- it looks likely you may be out of office very soon!