While Britain is obsessed with its moat-digging, duck-housing political class, it is worth remembering that other countries suffer political scandals too. This week, for instance, Australians have been fretting about Utegate - a row about a fake email and a pickup truck. Americans have watched the self-inflicted humiliation of their love-cheating runaway state governor Mark Sanford. Italians have once again had to avert their gaze from Silvio Berlusconi's bedroom. Less famously, a former Greek MP has been accused of handling a £400,000 bribe, a Bulgarian state power supply boss has been imprisoned for misusing $4.2m (some of which paid for a hot tub and massage chair in his office) and Japan's ruling party and the main opposition are again entangled in a dispute over business donations. Meanwhile, Israeli courts have just sentenced a former finance minister to five years in jail, a former Israeli president is on trial over allegations of rape and sexual harassment and the foreign minister is under investigation on suspicion of money laundering.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/27/editorials-international-political-scandals
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