What is wrong with politics in Spain?

[Guanche]

Just read somewhere, the major problem in Spain is that the people capable of clearing the mess up are the very same people who caused it in the first place and now benefit from it. Bit like putting an alcoholic in charge of a brewery!

[El Profesor]

Just read somewhere, the major problem in Spain is that the people capable of clearing the mess up are the very same people who caused it in the first place and now benefit from it. Bit like putting an alcoholic in charge of a brewery!

That is pretty much what it says in post one of this thread.


(but I gave you a thanks anyway for hitting the nail on the head. If you'd said "and that's why they will never do it" you would have got a  or a  which are worth multiple thanks, I think  )

[Janet]

"What's wrong with politics in Spain" is that a minister caught/tied up in a scandal thinks it's a perfectly reasonable explanation for not resigning that she has been a politician for a long time.

Not because "I'm innocent". Not because "we have a culture of innocent until proven guilty". Not because "it was my ex-husband who was the crook". Not even because "the charges have nothing to do with my current department's responsibilities" ... but because "I've been working at a political life for many years " .

FFS.

[Guanche]

There is so much corruption it's getting harder and harder to follow the almost daily round of revelation's.  The 'Keeper of the PP ledgers' Snr Barcenas has flown to Canada for a 'holiday' However in the last 24 hours it's emerged that inquires have reviled he has bank accounts in Canada and Norway as well as the one in Switzerland they already knew about. So his 'Holiday' to Canada is looking very suspect

I have a vision of a very mucky snow ball rolling down a slope towards a house of cards.

[Delderek]

Mmm, simple answer. Welcome to the real world, perhaps the Spanish are not so clever as most of the rest of the world.

[Delderek]

Should have added "At hiding it"

[Janet]

This "angry lorry driver" has a good idea of what's wrong with politics in Spain!!



as he says, it's all going to end badly ... YOU BASTARDS ...

[Janet]

"Lazy, shameless and insensitive" ... three words used to describe Pablo Sánchez-Terán - and specifically as an example of the Spanish political class. He's the Spanish Consul General in Boston who closed the consulate two hours after the marathon bombs because "it was closing time". This despite the fact that nearly 100 Spaniards participated in the Boston marathon. Those who called in desperation and fear for help got, instead, a message telling them to "ring the city's hospitals because the embassy was now closed."

OK, he's now been sacked by the Foreign Ministry for "failing to perform his duties", but one can't help but feel it's out of embarrassment after twitter was full of outrage over the incident, rather than because he was actually any worse than those who sacked him ...

[Janet]

La Policía Nacional atribuye el caso Saida a la descoordinación municipal

El CNP concluye que la no aplicación del Plan de Autoprotección y la descoordinación de la concejalía con la Gerencia de Fiestas, y otras áreas, originó una desastrosa y nefasta situación.

The National police say that lack of municipal coordination was responsible for the Saida case.
The police concluded that failure to apply the autoprotection plan, toether with lack of coordination between the council and the fiesta committee, as well as in other areas, was behind the distastrous and terrible situation.


The Saida case is that of the girl who was one of the carnival queen candidates in Santa Cruz who was badly burnt when a rocket on another dress set hers on fire. In other words, uselessless and inability to organize a kiss in a brothel was behind burns that will stay with her for life, and which could have cost her that life.

Jobs for the boys, nepotism, insular nationalism ... shameful.



And another

[Janet]

they make some good gaffes though .....