Spanish politicians -
especially President Rajoy - seem to have only one oratorical gesture -
robotically and rapidly raising and lowering either arm, to stress
their points. Presumably a lack of TV training.
Another President was
at this yesterday - the new president-elect of Andalucia, Señora
Susana Díaz. Having not gained an absolute majority, she's obliged
to get the approval of all the other parties before she can be
installed. And they've now said Niet 3 times. And Ms Díaz has begun to issue threats that needed stressing.
It had to happen. The
courageous judge, Mercedes Alaya, scourge of the corrupt down in
Andalucia, faces an action from one of the men she's investigated.
He's accused her of perversion of justice and may yet destroy her
career. This would be a shame for the media as she's rather glamorous
and they never miss an opportunity to show her arriving at court. She also seems to be a great judge. Which is possibly more important.
Talking of political
parties . . . Here's a nice comment from Rod Liddle in the Sunday
Times, commenting on the infighting within UKIP: This is the way
small political parties end. In a sort of flesh-ripping frenzy of
egotism, spite, jealousy and mutual loathing. Especially small
right-wing political parties. The lefties are not quite the same —
they just split into smaller and smaller camps of ever greater and
more cretinous doctrinal purity, until they are even tinier in number
and of less consequence than Citizen Smith’s Tooting Popular Front.
Spain's very-left new party, Podemos, has already split because of a move towards
the centre and greater electability. One wonders if it will split
further after the end-year general elections.
Couple more nice
headlines:
- Spain breaks record with world's cleanest beaches
- Spain may take 9.1% of Europe's asylum seekers to ease burden for Malta and Italy
One of history's
greatest ironies . . . The Iron Cross given to Hitler was awarded by
a Jewish officer.
Finally . . . Want to
be really Spanish? Well, here's what you have to be able to do. None
of it will come as a surprise to readers of this blog - God bless you
all. By the way, a sobremesa is table chat. Though I think it means
'dessert' in Portuguese,
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