The battle for Spain

[Sporting]

Casado resigns.

[Sporting]

God, it's complicated. Myself, I don't think Vox will maintain these figures. But maybe that's wishful thinking.

Ayuso is seen as charismatic and Casado as dull. Both opinions are true. Both are arseholes.

[Discordant Resonance]

And now Vox overtakes PP in the polls:

[Discordant Resonance]

The long-standing civil war in PP ranks between the leader, Pablo Casado, and the President of the Madrid region, Isabel Ayuso, has exploded into the open after revelations today that the latter's administration has awarded local government contracts worth €1.5m to a company owned by her brother. Cue a Vox surge in the next opinion poll.

[Gangster Octopus]

Good that the right respected the result then...

[Discordant Resonance]

¡ Haste la vitoria siempre ! (The 1936 GE result)

[DCI Harry Batt]

So yeah, I'm sticking with my lesson.

(It didn't even occur to me to start trying to decipher that bin fire tbh.)

[ursus arctos]

They are there in the collection of words and numbers referring to 2019 to the right of the hemicycle.

They aren't there in the 2019 columns of the table.

Which is the essential problem.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Equo are listed in the 2019 allocation of seats for the hemicycle graphic

I'll take you word for that - I can't read pictures, so rely on the words and numbers being accurate, which they aren't in that graphic. So the lesson I've learned is not to bother trying to decipher them.

[Discordant Resonance]

Castilla y León should really be divided into two, given how diverse it is. The same arguments have been put forward for similarly sprawling Andalucía, where Almería, for example, has more in common with Murcia than Cádiz.

Indeed, that's pretty much why the local parties flourished yesterday.

[Sporting]

Castilla y León should really be divided into two, given how diverse it is. The same arguments have been put forward for similarly sprawling Andalucía, where Almería, for example, has more in common with Murcia than Cádiz.

[ursus arctos]

Equo are listed in the 2019 allocation of seats for the hemicycle graphic

[DCI Harry Batt]

There aren't any parties shown that ran last time but not this.

[ursus arctos]

The others all are, but Equo are not.

Which means that the 2019 table doesn't correspond with the allocation of seats in the hemicycle graphic (as those 2 are missing from the former).

It is dumb.

[DCI Harry Batt]

So parties that ran last time but not this aren't shown? That's unhelpful.

[Discordant Resonance]

That's a technicality, as Podemos ran with the green party Equo in 2019, winning 7% of the vote and 2 seats. Because they ran on their own this time, they are thus recorded as a "new" party.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Isn't the overall "left" vote up, there?

[Discordant Resonance]

A bad night for the Spanish left in Castilla y León:

[ursus arctos]

I guess that they feel that the field for Anglophone Lost Cause propagandists is too crowded

[Nefertiti2]

Enthusiastically retweeted by a Times Journalist -

[/https://twitter.com/cymrurouge/status/1420461657638293507?s=20

not bonus points for references to Orwell


Orwell went to Spain to fight Franco you cunts.

[ursus arctos]

Some numpty named Gerald Warner

[Sporting]

Which author?

[Discordant Resonance]

In which the author resorts to outdated, disproven stereotypes to make the case for Franco.

[Sporting]

I'm not sure the bad left wing results can be entirely put down to party differences given that the PR system in Madrid is pretty fair. But the messaging was dilutrd, it's true, especially with Mas Madrid and Podemos sharing almost the exact same policies...

Finally, though, the voters have voted in a regional party which is to the right of the national party, which could have dire consequences.

[Sporting]

Ayuso won because she used the popularist cry of "freedom" and kept open bars and restaurants (and guess where Covid cases are highest?)

A recent poll in the Valencia region showed increased support for `PSOE, and here restrictions have been much stiffer.

https://valenciaplaza.com/un-sondeo-...tat-valenciana