I get cold shivers down my back. I look at Rigor Montis, Frignero, Passera and the wax faces of the various ministers and I see bookkeepers, tax collectors, bankruptcy adjusters, STRANGERS. Who invited them? Who voted for them? They remind me of the 1980s advertising campaign by Johnson with the dark mannered, serious and precise cleaner, signora Luisa who turns up at your door with the motto "Comincia presto, finisce presto e di solito non pulisce il water” {starts early, finishes early and usually doesn’t clean the WC} because she used the active foam of “Magic Water”. The Magic Monti government is doing the cleaning in our home without bothering about who is living in this house. It’s not bothered about the social classes. Pensioners, truck drivers, taxi drivers, laid off workers, small-time entrepreneurs - it’s as though they didn’t exist, as though they had never lived in Italy. The ministers are not part of the social fabric. They have not been elected. They don’t have to answer to anyone. They don’t have discussions with their counterparts. They carry out their mandate. They seem like disdainful aliens on an inspection visit. Indifferent to everything except the banks. Guests who have become masters, who after three months start to smell tremendously and who never clean the WC. What worries me is the total definitive loss of democracy and the acceptance of this loss by the Italians as though it were inevitable, obvious, taken for granted. As though democracy were an optional. In the 1970s “esproprio proletario” {proletariat expropriation} was fashionable. One went into a supermarket and did the shopping without paying. That was how it was. Today we are witnessing banking expropriation: a removal of the rights of the citizens, from article 18 to the fund for laid off workers, carried out in broad day light with bureaucratic rigidity by grey persons, in jacket and tie, to save the banks and the euro. I look at them and I don’t see humanity but the fixed and undecipherable look of sharks. The country is going up in flames, but for them it is just a task to be finished off as soon as possible. Magic Monti the activefoam that keeps the WC smelling nice.