Italy has a new Prime Minister today. And this is what she looks like. Not necessarily on the outside, but her inner depths are as dark and rotten as were those of El Duce himself. Who will be looking up, from Hell, with a big smile on his face. Even though his testicles are in a vice which squeezes more for all eternity, and his head is being pounded with a hammer all day, every day, since 1945, and will do forevermore.

Because Georgia Meloni is a chip off the old fascist. Yet in fact, she’s a lot worse. Because he was a tyrant and dictator who allied himself to Hitler and she, firstly, should know better, and secondly, now has a vast immigrant population to ‘work with’ which Mussolini didn’t possess.

She is the leader of the Brothers of Italy, bit ironic as she’s obviously a ‘sister’, which she has taken from being a neo-nazi, paki-bashing bunch of racist, xenophobic, ultra-nationalist thugs, to a degree of ‘acceptability’ by lowering the tone of her usual rhetoric and using a very diluted line on a more general population. And in the hard times (and Italy only ever has hard times) blaming it on immigrants is such a cheap and easy way forward. ‘Blame the Darkie’ has an enduring history in right wing history, although Hitler modified it for those not so dark. Any minority will do the job. Then direct everyone’s hate in that direction. Which sadly always has a mass appeal for those who consider themselves ‘hard done by’.

And sadly, although this may seem a horribly ‘right wing’ attitude, so you’d think, there was an interesting call on the radio yesterday from Colin from Essex or Mervin from Rochdale, saying how Liz Truss’s proposal to increase immigration for workers in healthcare, farming, the usual, were awful because, basically ‘WOT ABART GOOD INGLISH PEOPLE ‘AVIN JOBS AND ‘OUSES???’ And Colin/Mervin was hard Labour. So hard you could almost hear the shadow of Corbyn as he spoke. Even though it was just what you’d expect from the far right.

Georgia Meloni is apparently very bright. But not so bright as to think that having Sylvio Berlusconi on her team is actually going to give her some kind of credibility.

Ciao bene

A xxxx