One is worth one…
…and one is worth (almost) zero, compared to what we have been told!
Claudio got right into it, as only he can do, and crushed it like grapes, uncovering a Pandora's box of boasts and more or less innocent approximations (those who are responsible will be the ones to judge). You will find everything in the muddy flow of the black sewer (if you are interested in the miasma genre…).
I only give you an interna corporis from my staff.
During my two electoral campaigns, which you tried to finance (the first time Unicredit got scandalously in the way, as you will remember and I do not forget) this story of the risk of forfeiture in case of irregularities in handling the Devil's dung haunted me . I hate bureaucracy: although I recognize and appreciate its function, I am intolerant of certain obligations and terrified of my distraction. In this case I was also indignant at the presumption of guilt that weighs on anyone who decides to make themselves available to a political project, in short, at the climate created by those of honesty (cha cha cha). You know well that I have always stigmatized anti-politics (just re-read this , where I described the orthopterans for what they are and what they are worth, in times when my involvement in politics didn't occur to me or anyone else, not even in the antechamber of my brain). ).
The result was that my poor staff lived perpetually in a hyperbaric chamber, under the pressure of a particularly heavy atmosphere, one that only I know how to create. Yet, we had a handbook produced by the party, with all the relevant rules, and the appointment of the representative was managed by the party's trusted notary together with the acceptance of candidacy (so the path was in some way already armored). Being a party also means having to think about this, but being a perfectionist means seeing the glass broken, as SAR says
I will therefore spare you the comments of my precious staff on the hypothesis that someone might even just think that "well, we were joking, after all there are a few tens of thousands of euros not traced…" and so on (even ignoring the non-detail that there is someone who spent months under house arrest for completely legitimate and traced financing).
That would actually be scandalous.
I don't think anyone, least of all honest people, can benefit from ostentatiously double standards. If they themselves want to pass the principle that anyone who sticks to the rules is an idiot, let them sit down! The followers of divananza will always have them with them (imagine that!), but such a bathroom would close several political paths. And so divine Providence and human providence will allow us to remedy an accident of history: in a world that is moving to the right, we can classify a region that is moving to the left in this category.
(… "and the 49 milleoooooniiiii11!!1!"… They rhyme with you, kind friend. Be well and take care of yourself!… )
(… in any case the opposition from the Regional Council to the Chinese pinwheels that he craved so much when he was in Government would have been enough. And in both cases the supreme question remains in the background: why?… )
This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/01/uno-vale-uno.html on Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:08:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.