There has been a
response from the powers that be about the theft of my money and
phone while I was using the local swimming pool that I used to go to
before our local pool became an indoor one. And if that is not a
clumsy sentence, then I am no stylist!
What that response
will actually mean in the fullness of time, I know not, but they did
ask for the price of the old phone and the cost of replacing it.
There was even vague talk of some sort of municipal insurance cover.
Which is encouraging. I am not, however, holding my breath.
My replacement
Yotaphone has travelled from Russia originally, then to Slovenia and
on to Germany via Austria. And there it stays, mocking the
assurances from the company that it would be with me in 1 day or 2.
I was sceptical when I read it, so I am not unduly worried about its
non appearance.
Just as I was not
worried about the non/delivery of my OU books by Correos. It is not
the first time that they have lost my educational material, so I was
more than prepared to lurch into action to counter the malign
indifference of the Spanish Postal Service, and the OU, bless them,
did manage to get the books and other material to me in time. You
never know, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a parcel
arrived out of the blue in March with the books that should have been
with me in September!
I am still learning
the ways of the Satellite and incidentally relearning the use of
right and left clicks with the mouse. There are things that go up in
Mac that go down in the PC and not everything is where it 'should'
be. But time will take care of that. I hope.
Meanwhile no news
about The Book or The Watch or anything else of real retail interest.
In Spain, the latest
news via a poll about the two largest political parties, PP (the
ruling oligarchy of kleptomaniacs) and PSOE (a so-called socialist
party with corruption issues as deep and worrying as PP – see
above) puts them neck and neck. Neck and neck!
PP has had a build
up to the election campaign which has been almost comic in its
awfulness. Virtually every treasurer of PP who is still capable of
drawing breath has been accused of corruption. The last treasurer
has been to prison momentarily (if you're are PP or rich or a singer
or banker you do not stay in prison for long) because of the
wholesale distribution of sobres (envelopes) stuffed with 'black'
money (i.e. illegal) to anyone who was anyone in PP. A whole swathe
of the political class have been impugned; and the commercial class;
and the banking class; and the union class – anyone with power and
influence has been bought and sold. And they all get away with it.
One daily programme
has a 'Corruption of the Day' spot to keep up with the accusations!
The congregation of one notorious wedding of a daughter of the past
president (unfortunately with no resemblance to the Red Wedding of
Game of Thrones) seems to have been composed almost entirely of the
ethical dregs of Spanish society. It is amusing, in a bitter sweet
way, to watch film of that grotesque parade of autocratic contempt
and note how many of the faces are also known to the police as
miscreants – and many more who should be!
Evidence of the
corruption of our politics washes from our TV screens in a never
ending wave and EVERYBODY (including the scum who deny it) knows that
the guilty are those who 'govern' us. The evidence is overwhelming
and conclusive, but PP has a parliamentary majority and, by god, they
use it.
An example of that
was when PP 'lost' the recent local elections in many of their
strongholds where corruption under their astonishing rule had reached
totalitarian dimensions. Apart from frantically shredding anything
which might be incriminating and prove to be useful to the new
incoming administrations their out-and-out shock at being dislodged
from their traditional cash cows prompted them to extreme proposals.
One (just one) of
their most astonishing proposals was to re-write the meaning of
majority. In some of their previous serfdoms they were still the
largest single party after the elections, but they lacked the all
important overall majority which allowed them to do what they liked.
So, their (really quite clever) solution was to propose a new law
which stated that if the largest single party's vote was something
like 40% they should be allowed to form the government, even if the
other parties could unite behind a single candidate for mayor. They
began to play around with percentages and the frustrated PP grandee
who fully expected to be elected major of Madrid began to talk about
democracy! Always a bad sign when a member of PP uses the 'D' word –
it usually shows desperation and panic, because any thinking person
bursts into uncontrollable laughter when they see anyone from PP
talking about a concept in which they obviously have no belief
whatsoever!
If you are British
and reading this, you have no idea whatsoever about how blatant the
corruption is and in what low esteem politicians and bankers are
held. Whatever you think about Cameron and his Cronies (and I think
very, very little of them) they are paragons of ethical virtue
compared to the rubbish that clings on to power in this country.
And, as far as I can see, has a very real chance of retaining power
after the next general election if the disgraced PP party can link up
with the C's (a right-wing party with a young leader whose lust for
power is refreshingly obvious) then they could form the next Spanish
government. And I will wholeheartedly in favour of Catalan
independence.
Just to give
Catalans something to think about. Monday is National Show Our
Military Might Day when there is a military parade with the salute
taken by the tall person who calls himself the king – a person who
was put on the throne by the undignified collusion of PP and PSOE
with no reference to the people of Spain whatsoever. This unsavoury
parade is usually in Madrid, but this year it is taking place in
Barcelona.
Perhaps this is the
time to mention that some PP defence minister actually raised the
possibility of military force to keep the Catalans in line if they
took the Independence thing too far. And now we have a vast military
parade. This is not going to turn out well. Mark my words. Though
the public face of the parade will be photogenic enough with invited
guests and invited populations to give the 'right' image for the
watching viewers. It will be interesting to see how this 'event' is
televised on Spanish television and then compare it with how it is
treated on Catalan television.
It is at times like
this I regret not having a Republican flag to fly from our window. I
am obviously asking in the wrong shops!
Meanwhile I follow
the non-progress of my phone as it continues to stay in Germany.
Perhaps, now that I think about it, they are trying to find a vehicle
which has actually passed legitimate exhaust emission tests before
bringing it into Spain!
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