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  redacted at 07:51 PM JST - 15th April

  The once-proud, has-been member nations of Old Europe continue to elect conservative leaders.

  Britain next?

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  Madverts at 08:25 PM JST - 15th April

  Uhm, heh, "redacted"....if you knew anything about the British conservative party in it's current state I don't think you'd be cheering it on.

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  redacted at 08:34 PM JST - 15th April

  It doesn't really matter if Britain's conservative party, like its Nu Labour, isn't what you knew growing up, madverts.

  We're talking about has-been Europe here.

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  Madverts at 09:34 PM JST - 15th April

  Heh...I've seen your euro "expertise" in the past.

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  redacted at 11:01 AM JST - 16th April

  Had to laugh when I saw that the press in Europe (even the BBC, who rilly ought to know better...) were calling Berlusconi's opponent "Italy's Barack Obama."

  Man, how desperate for American-style democracy and politics do you have to be to try and cast a pasty, middle-aged Lefty - first name Walter - in that light?

  "'Last chance'

  The centre-left leader's slogan is one of hope, echoing US presidential candidate Barack Obama: "Si puo fare" ("It can be done"). "

  from - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7337177.stm

  "Mr Veltroni, a far more effective speaker than Mr Prodi, casts himself as Italy's Barack Obama..."

  from - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3723972.ece

  Interesting look at this phenom and what it says of Italy and Europe - http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0306gs.html

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  redacted at 07:03 PM JST - 16th April

  Suh-weet:

  "The big news is that the Communists are gone, for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Really gone. They didn't win a single seat in either chamber. A lot of famous faces will vanish from Parliament, and it is even possible, although unlikely, that some of the comrades will be forced to join the working class. The Greens are also gone. In fact, there are only six parties in the new Parliament, suggesting that Italy's well on the road to a two-party political system instead of the dreadful proportional electoral model that has destroyed virtually every country where it's been applied. If that happens, a lot of the credit goes to Veltroni, who created a real center-left party and refused to admit the old Left.

  "Tomorrow's papers will pretend that this didn't happen, and warn that Berlusconi's allies in the Northern League are mercurial and dangerous, and that his majority isn't as stable as it looks. But it is. And there's an even more annoying feature to these elections, as seen by the chattering classes: Berlusconi is an outspoken, even passionate admirer of George W. Bush and the United States of America."

  http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mjg5NTExNTg4M2IwNTgyMzNiNzAzZGMwNzdiYjk5NTg=

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