The
large trade-union, UGT, is in trouble over corruption claims down
south and the finger of suspicion now points at its long-time
leader. An enterprising blogger has looked at photographs of him over
the years and asked how come he can afford to have 5 watches with
total value of €25,000. Which seems a pretty fair question to me. I
wonder if the Tax Office has ever put it to him.
I've
recently used the old N(Nacional)
roads - as opposed to autopistas - to drive to both Ourense and
Santiago. In each case, there are numerous villages to pass through
en route and ahead of every one the speed signs show 80, 60 and 50kp. And then, some time after leaving the villages, there's an
End of 70 sign. Though occasionally it's 80. Which is all rather
confusing as you're supposed to be at 50. I guess it's a relic of
faster times, when you could go through villages at the higher
speeds. And I suspect the confusion caused is not an accident. But
that's how you get in a society riven by conspiracy theories.
You start to see tax inspectors in Civil Guard uniforms.
In
the latest development in the Spanish government's campaign to
increase 'public security' it's announced that private security
employees will have the power to search
and arrest people in public. For example in sports stadiums. I'm
queasy about this, wondering what safeguards there will be for the
public. Interestingly, the concept of citizen arrest doesn't seem to
be known in Spain, if this article is correct. So one is left
wondering whether security guards will be running the same risks as
individuals do in, say Anglo, countries. Meanwhile, we can smile at the knowledge that at least one city mayor owns a private security firm.
Possibly saw this coming.
Finally
. . . And back to books that upset Spanish women: A
joke book for young boys has been taken off the market after Spain's
Women's Institute threatened to take the publishing company to court
over its chauvinistic content.
Mind you, this took 3 or 4 years of campaigning against the
misogynistic garbage.
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