The treatment of the sister of the king, the forgetful
ignoramus of a bank worker who apparently knows nothing of finance, should have
prepared us for the treatment of her criminal husband. He was found guilty of a range of crimes for
which he was given a prison sentence of . . . wait for it . . . no time in
prison! Today he has walked from court
and is able to go back to his home in Switzerland! Just when you thought that PP (let’s not
pretend for a moment that the justice system in Spain is separate from the
political parties) could do nothing more to take the breath away, they
encourage the degradation of justice by allowing this glaring piece of toadying,
fawning favouritism AND they have replaced some of the most honest fiscals (the
legal characters who are leading investigations into the rampant corruption of the
systemically corrupt PP and its unsavoury associates) in the hope that the
scandal of the incredible treatment of the husband of the sister of the king,
will deflect attention from the other disgusting activity that they are
indulging in to ensure their escape from the punishment they richly deserve.
Although
it seems like overstatement, this country is looking more and more like a
dictatorship in which the MINORITY government’s cynical scratching of the
already thin veneer of democracy is looking more and more determined in their
ruthless determination to stay in power.
The previous local PP government of Valencia shows what a cesspit of fiscal
corruption is revealed when a sitting government is forced to relinquish the
reins of power: presumably our national PP government must be terrified about
what might come out of any other than themselves is able to see the true
situation in this country. I feel nothing
but contempt for most of the political system and for almost all of the
questionable characters that run the justice system. There are, of course, notable exceptions who
plough an increasingly lonely furrow in trying to get the truth into the public
arena – but in my view, it is easier to think of Spain in terms of a banana
republic than as a modern democratic state.
And, what is more depressing is that the government thinks that it can
get away with it. No, they know they can
get away with it, because that is what they have been doing, with impunity.
This
is a bad day for democracy, justice and the reputation of Spain. The actions of this government must be
rejected by anyone who cares about the future of the whole country rather than
just for one political party. This
should be a wake up call for people to reject the debased ethical stance of a
systemically corrupt government and ask for real
separation of powers between the judiciary and the legislative in this
state.
The political farce that we have watched with
fascinated horror for the past umpteen years as generations of politician and
constructors fleece the public purse and get away with it must be stopped. Most of our present political caste seem
unwilling or unable to offer anything more than more of the same. This is intolerable, and it is up to that
part of the disgusted population of Spain to teach their political ‘masters’ the
true meaning of that word.
