If
you haven't yet seen it, here's a video of a Spanish secondary
school's enactment of a Spanish invasion of Gibraltar and the
slaughter of its residents. I was disgusted. It's so bloody
amateurish. I don't believe in violence but I feel the drama teacher
should be shot.
Talking
of Gib . . . It seem's that the canny Spanish police ran down the
border checks just before the EU inspectors arrived and then
immediately reinstituted them as soon as they'd gone. The Gib
government said this was pointless as they had plenty of video
evidence of what had been going on. Asked for their opinions this
morning, several drivers waiting to cross the border were
considerably less sanguine.
All
of which reminds me . . . At the UN this week Spain's Motormouth
Margallo was pictured shaking hands with Britain's Motormouth Blair.
Mo comment necessary.
Spain
is currently revising is Criminal Code. One change is to be more
severe penalties for corrupt politicians. The cynical Spanish
response to this appears to be that it'll make no difference at all -
no one can remember a politician who hasn't been pardoned after a
short stay in the Soto del Real holiday camp north of Madrid. Maybe they all have something on each other.
Talking
of corrupt politicians . . . One of ours here in Galicia is the
ex-president of the Ourense province. The good news is that he's to
be investigated by the current president. The bad news is that the
latter is his son. Democratically elected, of course.
At
a national level, it seems the Public Prosecutor(El
Procurador Fiscal) has turned into the Public Defender. In a
number of corruption investigations - including that of the King's
daughter - he's demanded and then commanded that the investigating
judges back off the prosecution of prominent people. It is, of
course, a political appointment and, as I've said before, there seems
to be little fear on the part of the Spanish government that the populace
will revolt against its scandalous behaviour. They may complain; they
may make a lot of noise; but they won't actually do anything. This
supine behaviour, say some, reflects fear born of the fact
that the Civil War remains very much in living memory. That said,
there was a major demonstration against the King yesterday in Madrid.
Finally
. . . You may not be familiar with the name Juan Yagüe.
He was Francoist General who earned himself the nickname of The
Butcher of Badajoz. Astonishingly, there's still a street in Madrid
named after him. Even more depressing, there are still streets and
squares around Spain - though not in Madrid apparently - named after
the even more bloodthirsty General Queipo de Llano. What can one say?
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