What is wrong with politics in Spain?

[Perikles]

Here's an interesting public opinion

BBC reports an upsurge of approval for the president of Uruguay

One typical tweet:

"Humble, sincere, honourable. About how many Spanish politicians would you be able to say the same?"

[Guanche]

Cynical as ever but humble, sincere and honourable are not words I would ever grace to any politician anywhere in the world. No one gets to the top of the tree by being any of the aforementioned. Wishfull thinking and the mindlessness of Twitter me thinks. I can't believe its even a story on the BBC only 100,000 tweets? more to do with the popularity of Jordi Evole than anything else.

[Janet]

Could have put this in the Papa Frank thread but thought it better here. The PP might be rethinking its instinctive relationship with the catholic church after Frank said that Spain was a disgrace for having a system that put money before people and which saw the system look after itself, resulting in 50% youth unemployment, reaching 60% in Andalucia.

Condemned by their own, from the inside ... or the top!

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Amen Papa Frank!

[El Profesor]

Could have put this in the Papa Frank thread but thought it better here. The PP might be rethinking its instinctive relationship with the catholic church after Frank said that Spain was a disgrace for having a system that put money before people and which saw the system look after itself, resulting in 50% youth unemployment, reaching 60% in Andalucia.

Condemned by their own, from the inside ... or the top!

Nothing about the PP in that article. And although they are complete bastards and the current ruling members of the parasitic autocratic elite, I would say that it is the other complete bastards and previous ruling members of the parasitic autocratic elite that are even more to blame for the unemployment in particular.

It looks like he was answering a question about the results of the European elections and used Spain as an example (the best one) of "inhuman" economic systems in many countries of the world.

What is wrong with politics in Spain is not the PP. The PP are one of the consequences.
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Let's see what Pablo Iglesias gets up to . . . . .  I hope he doesn't have an accident.

[Perikles]

Let's see what Pablo Iglesias gets up to . . . . .  I hope he doesn't have an accident.

Wow - just found this in The Local, showing a video of a political discussion involving Pablo Iglesias. It is heavy going, but a delight to see them all squirming under his onslaught. I love it at the end where he tells some old git off for calling him "chaval"

[El Profesor]

Wow -  . . .  Pablo Iglesias. It is heavy going, but a delight to see them all squirming under his onslaught. I love it at the end where he tells some old git off for calling him "chaval"

Good one. He is not intimidated in the least and makes no attempt to hide his contempt.

I believe that the Spanish public are crazy enough to go for this, they really have had enough . . . as I said, I hope he doesn't have an "accident".

[Guanche]

Mentioned this bloke and his party to the wife this morning, saying 'look you could have voted for him' the reply I got was....... sharp. "Him you must be joking he's a fan of Castro and thinks that Cuba and Venezuela are models of democracy"

[Janet]

my kind of man   

[El Profesor]

Mentioned this bloke and his party to the wife this morning, saying 'look you could have voted for him' the reply I got was....... sharp. "Him you must be joking he's a fan of Castro and thinks that Cuba and Venezuela are models of democracy"

Yes indeed, they are on the defensive/offensive . . . . I think they would actually like to compare him with Robespierre, but it wouldn't have the same effect.

There is one guy in "Podemos" who was an advisor to Hugo Chavez (ended up criticising the autocracy)  . . . so this is what they are using to attack them. Didn't they wheel out old Felipe Gonzalez (of course, major damage is to the PSOE) to rabbit on about Bolivarian revolution?

However, there is no doubt that these are revolutionaries . . . . (unashamedly Bolivarian)

. . . . . . . . groups, which do not necessary share an ideology, are united by the desire to "take back our kidnapped democracy,"

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But nobody can really imagine that they would want to turn . . . or even believe for one second that Spain could be turned into Venezuela.
Nor would the voting public entertain the thought, they know this, these people are not stupid.
We can expect Adolf Hitler to be mentioned too.
And Pablo needs some good bodyguards.