Visca Catalunya?

[Diable Rouge]

Didn’t Podemos win Madrid (or was that only Mayour of the City rather than control of the Autonoma?)

The city government is separate to the comunidad autonoma, similar to the City of London and Greater London, so Podemos won the mayoralty, and PP won the wider area.

[Diable Rouge]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KRLS/stat...67240093462528

[Lang Spoon]

Mibees not the exact best place to post this, by the Guardian had a good article the other day on La Línea, Gibraltar’s shit poor shanty neighbour, now swimming in tobacco hash and coke smuggling. Spent a bit of time there last summer, it is pretty damn fucked. Had a very good time, and the people are really friendly even if they couldn’t understand a word of my Spanish, or me of theirs (they eat most of their syllables dahn saff) but it’s the only place that I’ve for sure heard a gun battle (foggy humid night, speedboats roaring to shore then the pop pop pop and the blue lights). Little kids scurrying for news below us, obviously reporting to the brazen as Fat Tony standing at his front door opposite the high school yard. Permanent kiosks away from the old town who only sell contraband tobacco. It’s weird.

Can’t see tourism as being a panacea either if you can make so much money from joining the smuggling. Who’d be a bus boy for pelas when you could make a grand a day?

But restaurant Las Trebédes in the fucked looking hood near the bullring (seriously, if the worst street the writer was in was Calle Canarias he must have shat it- the only really dangerous part of that street, unless you start taking pictures of gaffs or something stupid, is the 6km of scrub and beach after the street leaves the town- that’s where loads of nighttime landings take place, with only half empty pijo holiday/Gibraltar commuter spec housing developments looking on) has the best food you’ll ever get for 30 quid a head. Near Michelin food quality but pretty informal service from the Da and a few waitresses. Paris/BCN trained chef who decided she wanted to set up in her barrio. Funky trompe l'oeil tapas type things but not too wanky (cigars made of black pudding and pig skin eg).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raltar-hashish

[Lang Spoon]

The city government is separate to the comunidad autonoma, similar to the City of London and Greater London, so Podemos won the mayoralty, and PP won the wider area.

I hope it has more territorial extent than The City of Lunnon and its medieval residual mentalist powers but (though surely far less power).

[Diable Rouge]

Meanwhile three more Catalan ministers in Belgium have been released without requiring bail:

http://www.publico.es/politica/direc...ligencias.html

[Diable Rouge]

Remember when Manuel Valls was going to be a Socialist President of France? Now, it appears he wants to be the Ciudadanos candidate for Mayor of Barcelona:

https://www.elperiodico.com/es/polit...celona-6771272

[Lang Spoon]

Yeuch.

[ad hoc]

Police were stripping Barcelona fans of yellow shirts before the Copa Del Rey final. Yellow shirts. This is a supposedly democratic country in Western Europe dictating to people which clothes are unacceptable. Fucking unreal

[Diable Rouge]

Puigdemont has decided to nominate a party loyalist, Quim Torra, for Catalan president:

http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica...neralitat.html

[Lang Spoon]

I think I remember the Grauniad journo’s book “Ghosts of Spain” getting all indignant about the PP being slandered as somehow harboring Francoist tendencies. Fuck that shit, Aznar was a member of the youth Falange when the game was up for fash. That old cunt that ran Galicia (and cofounded the PP) till a few years back remained unapologetic for being in Franco govts, the closure of any real investigation into the war crimes from 36 on, the fucking Guardia Civil their pals in shit hats unreformed and pure thugs, they are fucking scum. They are not a “normal” Christian Democrat party at all.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Spain is not going to be able to move on, until every PP voter over the age of 50 is dead. Those people remember life under Franco, and still vote PP.

[Lang Spoon]

Life was good for loads of people, once they joined NATO and had their first consumer boom. Just don’t get out of line and always go to fuckin mass.

[Flynnie]

We probably gon' have an election in Spain as the Socialists file a confidence motion. Podemos have already said they'll support it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...o-rajoy-gurtel

C's have indicated they will vote for the motion unless Rajoy calls an election.

[Lang Spoon]

What if the C cunts became the largest party? Fucking Orange Book LibDems with a side order of rabid Spanish Nationalism.

[Diable Rouge]

What if the C cunts became the largest party? Fucking Orange Book LibDems with a side order of rabid Spanish Nationalism.

Could well find out this week - Rajoy facing a no-confidence motion on Friday, and could be unseated if the PNV pull their backing.

[Diable Rouge]

Looks like the PNV ARE pulling the plug!

https://www.elindependiente.com/poli...mpression=true

[Lang Spoon]

Thank fuck. Tory Basque weirdos propping up Rajoy in the first place

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/SamShepEdwards/status/1002187837733769216

[ursus arctos]

I believe that the formal vote is not until tomorrow (the process is seriously drawn out).

Rajoy is under significant pressure to resign today, but so far appears not to be moved to do so.

[Ginger Yellow]

Seems rather cowardly/lazy not to even show up if you're not going to resign immediately.

[ursus arctos]

This is Rajoy we are talking about.

[Nefertiti2]

You forgot "corrupt".

[Diable Rouge]

Meanwhile, Sanchez has promised to respect the "plurinational" nature of Spain, presumably code for offering the Catalans a general amnesty and/or constitutional reform.

[ursus arctos]

He's gone.

Evidently he spent yesterday evening holed up with his staff in a Madrid restaurant getting absolutely hammered. The opposition press published clips of him having trouble finding his car (which was parked right outside) and were told by the staff that they went through two bottles of whiskey.

[NHH]

Oh to have recorded the bantz.