Silvio Berlusconi is a the wimp, says Umberto Bossi

Thursday, January 26, 2012. Umberto Bossi accuses his ally Silvio Berlusconi of acting like a wimp and being afraid to send home Italian prime minister Mario Monti. And threatens to send home the President of Lombardy instead.

“Silvio is just afraid“ to send home Monti, “he's a wimp”. This is Umberto Bossi's position regarding Berlusconi unwillingness to send Monti home.

Are those real punches?

“Monti must go” is Bossi's slogan, otherwise Formigoni will go. Formigoni is the President of Lombardy region, Bossi is hinting that his party – the Northern League – could withdraw the support for the coalition.

Actually Mario Monti is shored up in the polls, even though the reforms brought by his technocratic government are tough and painful.

Bossi manoeuvre might be just a way to show his delusional fans (recently he's been booed on a Northern League's meeting) that he is alive and kicking, whilst many thinks former Ministry of Interior should oust him and get the lead of the quite-not-so angry crowds.

Remember how we used to laugh?

Anyhow, it looks like Mr Bossi is the only politician (and alike) to feel that there could be an alternative to Mario Monti's government.

Interesting enough, when Radio Padania (the official radio of NL) organised a poll on the radio's Internet site and asked the opinion of their listeners about Mario Monti, about 80 per cent of them voted in favour. But, the results of the survey quite rapidly disappeared from the website.