Berlusconi scuttles off into the sunset.

by | Nov 8, 2011 | brief snippets, Politics, Strange Thoughts, UK Misery, Wasp likes these, Well I never.

Via FT Alphaville :

Il Bunga Bunga festa è finita.

Across all the wires a few minutes ago came the news that Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, had announced that Berlusconi’s resignation was imminent.

In a vote over the 2010 state budget accounts earlier in the day, Berlusconi had lost his majority in the Italian parliament, and pressure has since increased on him to resign.

And from Reuters, the following summary of his last few years which makes me wonder why they didn’t get rid sooner :

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