Sir, – Paddy Agnew reports from Italy after the general election there leaves the country rudderless: “Secondly, the old-fashioned, promise-what-you-can politics of Berlusconi, who offered to re-imburse €4 billion of property tax out of his own pocket if necessary, still works with vast sections of an Italian electorate which would seem to have forgotten just how close Italy came to financial collapse under Berlusconi’s last government” (World News, February 26th).
Phew! Aren’t we Irish lucky we’re not so amnesiac and/or stupid as the Italians! – Yours, etc,