Yugo España - Canvas and Arrows - Juggling - Bullying - Epidemological Study - Happy Housing
Yugoslavia was once a dictatorship under Marshall Tito and later under Slobovan Milosevic. One worries that our neighbours might try and ape this communist country, or should we say Fascist.
It was a sheer coincidence that I saw part of a question and answer session in the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) delayed by TVE 1 the other day. Those involved in the spat were Mariano Rajoy the leader of the Popular Party and Mr. Zapatero the President of the Spanish PSOE Government.
I was amazed at the body language and bile and vitriol pouring from the mouth of Rajoy to the extent that he even accused the Attorney General Candido Conde Pumpido of swaying with the wind in his judicial opinions and interpretations regarding some young Basque militant group.
Regrettably the impression gathered is that Rajoy rather than maturing politically in his conduct is going back to the awful days of the embryo Fascists militants and particularly the founder of the Falange Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera and Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta extreme right wingers whose Falangist philosophy was the regular use of fists and guns to achieve their aims. So far Rajoy is using inconsiderate immoderate and rather aggressive language unacceptable in a European Democracy about with the Spanish media and political parties so often trumpet.
The lack of respect for normal parliamentary standards and the judiciary is contrary to basic democracy about which Rajoy has yet to understand and comply with. That same lack of respect was often shown by Jose Antonio primo de Rivera who as a member of the Spanish Parliament also led hit equals. He was eventually arrested, imprisoned, tried and shot for his crimes.
But Spain is now a sort of democracy despite the disrespect shown by Rajoy and his two leading henchmen Messrs Acebes and Zaplana. When will they learn that if you want to be respected you must show respect.
Incidentally a lot of Rajoy’s right wing colleagues do not agree with his conduct and behaviour which in fact augurs well for Spain.
CANVAS AND ARROWS
Soon many of us will witness an historic event of a Prime Minister questioned by the Fuzz and the chances, slim though they are, that the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland may end up in sartorial elegance in a canvas suit printed with arrows. Unless of course the International Court trying war criminals catch up with him first.
What a turn up for one who calls himself a regular guy or are the regular guys the ones who fork out and end up dressed in ermine. Will they rally round Tony and will dear Cheri be there for him. Of course she will and maybe demands special treatment for her hubby. Like not putting cuffs on him.
On top of the weapons of mass destruction that never existed in Iraq and the lying that went with it and the gallons of whitewash of enquiries it is going to be difficult for Tony to squirm out of this one.
JUGGLING
Why do some people take on more than what they can cope with? Is it delusions of grandeur, or is it prestige, (not the tanker) or is it just plain stupidity?
The Algeciras B Football Team players are up in arms because they are owed at the last report two months salary. They naturally want to be paid and also want, quite rightly, guarantees that their wages will be paid promptly at the end of each month and up to the end of the season ending in May 2007. The Club Chairman has offered one month’s wages of that outstanding without promises or guarantees that the players will receive what they are owed or their regular contracted salaries.
The players continue with their demands and the sports Director of the Algeciras Club showed considerable annoyance at the players’ demands. He is probably acting on the sports principle that the best form of defence is attack regardless of legally valid contracts.
Grandeur, prestige, stupidity or arrogance. You take your pick. This saga is just one of the many normal things that happen in the Comarca.
BULLYING
How many times do traders have to get to the grubby customs office next to the frontier fence to make an entry and pay duty on goods? Hopefully not many because the treatment meted out by some female customs officer is not what one can expect from enforcement agency officers where people have perforce to attend. They or those customs officers who attend the public have to show respect for those attending and not doing so can be construed as lack of common courtesy and a reflection on the rest of the customs officers who deal with people efficiently, rapidly and with great respect.
What a pity that one rotten apple can give such an example of what can literally be described as throwing ones weight around which is totally unacceptable and intolerable. What a shame.
EPIDEMOLOGICAL STUDY
Nobody takes the slightest notice of us, nobody listens but ignore us. In the meanwhile our relatives and friends die without knowing what is happening.
These are the words of Jose Antonio Ledesma the Deputy Mayor of San Roque who urged greater numbers of demonstrators than the 300 who lined up at La Linea largely made up of environmentalists including some ESG members from Gibraltar.
This column has with the greatest regret and sadness repeated time and time again that nobody in authority, not even the ex Priest Andalusian Ombudsman, listens or does anything because the poisoning industries of the Comarca contribute large sums in money and sponsorship to the municipalities. Money talks. That’s the reality.
Was Juarez, Mayor of Bankrupt La Linea at the Demonstration? Ledesma by the way has been sidelined by the San Roque Town Hall and there might be more than meets the eye to his vociferous demands.
Like an Election in May 2007.
Aaaa ha!!
HAPPY HOUSING
Following in the wake of the corruption scandal in Marbella and then in Telde in the Canary Islands where the Mayor and a few councillors are in clink for bribery and corruption it is now Andratx’s turn. This town with Balearics Islands has its mayor and a few others consigned to Prison again for bribery and corruption. Like all the rest including some other municipalities, too many to list the boss of Urbanisation Departments and the Mayors are in a lucrative mode. And it’s catching up with them. The coincidence is that the Mayors of the last two towns are Popular Party members. I wonder what Rajoy has to say. Be interesting wouldn’t it?
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