Enough
with the natural approach to getting rid of my various aliments: it’s time to
drug up!
A short (and expensive) trip to our
local pharmacy and I am now armed with Vic Vapour Rub (one of those treatments
from childhood which, even if it doesn’t work, gives comfort); throat pastilles
from Pranarom which taste nasty enough to be doing something and, finally,
Gelocatil which is another name for Paracetamol. I have also taken a Lemsip powder (donated by
Emma before she left) I therefore consider myself to have done everything that
a concerned (and snuffling) person could possibly do to get something like
better.
But, how can I possibly improve my
general situation with what is going on in political terms in Spain!
The Central Committee of PSOE (the
so-called Socialist party of Spain) has decided to abstain in the next vote for
the investiture of the walking joke who terms himself the president of
Spain. We have been without a government
for months and two successive General Elections have not resolved the problem
of any of the parties gaining an overall majority. PP (the systemically corrupt Conservative
party of Spain) has been continuing the process of government as a ‘Government
in functions’ and with the support of C’s and the abstentions of the ‘Socialists’
they will gain the majority of those voting to continue their corrupt way
through the financial life of Spain.
The Socialists have said that their
cowardly, selfish and traitorous abstentions are, of course, of course,
naturally, for the benefit of Spain.
They do not want a third General Election (especially as they would
almost certainly lose even more seats after their disgustingly vacillating
attitudes) and, incidentally after the ‘ruling’ party of PP suggested that the
date of the third election if it was forced to be held would be set for the 25th
of December! And no, that is not a joke.
The Socialists have also pointed out
that the new PP government would be a minority one and that the socialists
(they do not deserve a capital letter) would be able to hold them to strict
account.
For me, PSOE has been
parochial. They have cared much more
about the future of their party than they have of the people they are supposed
to represent. The Catalan Socialists have
said that they are going to vote against Rajoy.
The leader of the Catalan Socialists has pointed out that his party,
PSC, is not the enemy of PSOE, Rajoy is and he does not look to split from PSOE. The discussions within the party should be of
the vicious internecine nature that characterises most left wing discussions!
Having got rid of one leader, the
socialists seem to be veering towards the deeply unpleasant leader of the
socialists in Andalucía – one of the ruthless Barons of the socialist party who
has many questions of her own to answer about the way in which she has behaved
in public office.
In all, the situation in Spain is
politically, socially and financially dire.
There is no real reason for optimism.
The only positive point that I can see about the present position of Spain
is that it has not descended to the level of idiocy of indulging in its own
version of Spexit!
Four more years of the appalling PP
under the walking Joke of Rajoy will, almost certainly, boost the move for
independence within Catalonia and, although I am in theory in favour of a
united Spain, the idea that a corrupt and corrupting government, supported by
cynical abstentions by sections of a cowardly socialist party, continues its
version of ‘government’ for further four years is unthinkable. If a Rajoy government is something that PP,
Cs and sections of PSOE and the Spanish people generally can accept as
democratic and suitable for a suffering country, then it is time for Catalonia
to consider its position and work to break away from the corrupt shackles of
Spanish politics and the Spanish state.
What
a sorry state of affairs in both my countries: Britain with the Conservatives
under May trying to make the best of the self inflicted wound of Brexit (which
they also facilitated) and the horrific group of seditious thieves that make up
the Conservative ‘government’ of Spain.
God help us all!
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