Spanish Politicians:
- After a week of pointless denials, the Minister for Industry, Energy and Tourism has finally admitted he had a Panamanian offshore company and – astonishingly – resigned. There must be another election coming up. He was also the President of the Canaries. As it were.
- The mayor of Granada has been arrested for the usual mix of financial skulduggery.
Myths about Spain: I
mentioned the siesta yesterday. Here's The Local's verdicts on other
global perceptions of this fine country. On:-
- Leaving the nest
- Laziness
- Bloodthirstiness
- All sun, sea and sangria
- Lateness
- Loudness
- Nothing but tourism
- Corrupt.
Spanish Non Government: The king will bang heads together for the final time in a week or so. No one expects this to be successful and the PP party is preparing to spend vast amounts on a second round of elections in June. More here, if you can bear it.
Amazon Spain: You'll
all be asking whether they've followed up on my query of 2(3?) weeks
ago about the free e-book I was charged for. Well, you know the
answer to that. I'd have told you if they had.
You Couldn't Make It Up
Dept.: Another nice one from Lenox of Business Over Tapas. "Manos
Limpias is a sort of far-right association that is frequently in
court suing those it doesn't approve of - often bringing silly, time-wasting cases, but also part of the complaint against Urdangarín
and Princess Cristina. On Friday, they were closed down by the
anti-fraud police and their director was arrested for 'extortion and
operating a criminal organisation'". BTW - Manos Limpias means Clean Hands . . .
Talking of Tapas . . . : Spain
is seeking the UNESCO designation (and protection) of the status of
Intangible Cultural Heritage for this wonderful national invention.
What will this mean? No expensive (alleged) tapas restaurants in the UK, for
example? Got my support.
Refugees: I see the
Pope is visiting these on Lesbos. And am compelled to ask whether the
Vatican has taken in at least a handful of these poor souls? Whether
it has or not, Frankie's legions continue to spam my Google+ page. In the
person of one Tommy Adams.
Which reminds me . ..
Religions: I've asked
what really constitutes 'a religion', with all its consequences - in
the UK at least - for tax relief. I still don't know but there's at
least one faith – Pastafarianism – which has yet to be given this
accolade. See here on this. Incidentally, there are inevitably
ex-members of this religion. These are known – wait for it – as
Spagnostics.
Finally . . . You know
it's going to be a bad day when you go to warm up your coffee in the microwave and
find you've opened the fridge door.
Another cartoon . . .
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