Herd immunity
The year ended in praise of his sanctity Pedro Sánchez. First Budget approved during his term of office and Reform of the Labour Law. A failed reform - correction but not repeal of the Rajoy 2012 Rule - of which the partners of the Executive renege. More blackmail. And then, the doctor president launches himself into a hunt and capture of the opposition from all the pulpits. He blames the Popular Party for not supporting this historic agreement. The owner of the secret of "no is no", what part of "no" do you not understand? Would you approve the National Hydrological Plan that ZP cut the throat of forty-eight hours after the shameful withdrawal of our troops in Iraq?
This tenant of La Moncloa does not deserve to be pulled out of his labyrinth by the PP. First because he leads the most reactionary left in Europe and second because in all the negotiations with the bizcochable Patronal and the corrupt vertical Unions, (who mistreat the child of Canet and demonstrate in favour of the bloodthirsty terrorist Parot) he has not been consulted by Yo-Yolanda and his mariachis during the whole process. Besides, it is against the government's "cvmpliments". Didn't they say they were going to repeal it? Another hoax like the one about electricity and gas.
Nuclear and green
Ten days after January's Everest, we have seen for ourselves that recovery is not coming. The prophet Sánchez, who declared the pandemic to be over in June last year, has not got a single one right. Here are three facts: 110,000 workers on lay-offs, twice as many unemployed as in the EU, inflation at 6.7% - the highest in Europe -, unsustainable increases in electricity and fuel prices, and an arrogant attitude that always goes against national interests. This social-podemite government, so clean, so sustainable, so green and transparent - everything is a state secret, such as the scandalous expenses of the Falcon - continues to be stubborn in its propaganda. But it is no longer convincing. It is true that he still can't count the number of COVID dead. 90,000 officially, 140,000 according to the INE since 2020. Nor does it know how to protect the victims of terrorism. Ms Calviño's economic forecasts are denied by national and international organisations the day after they are made public. She is already lying more brazenly than Solbes.
As if that were not enough, the EU, and especially Enmanuel Macron, has managed to get the Commission to validate and legitimise new generation nuclear energy (mini-reactors) as green and clean energy, while the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is betting on Russian gas and his own coal. While Brussels is calling for an investment of half a trillion euros in 5th generation nuclear power so as not to be dependent on Moscow, Kazakhstan and the Middle East, the great Sánchez, at his Federal Committee a few days ago, reaffirmed his sectarianism: no to nuclear and no to gas as new green products. Apparently, his sectarian myopia does not allow him to see beyond subsidised windmills and photovoltaic plants. And when there is no wind, when it is foggy or raining, what then, we will use grandma's Paduan blanket.
Another answer without debate: are you going to take the risk and go for hydropower? No. After the Ebro floods, will you venture into water transfers? No, never. We already know that reservoirs are Francoist and water transfers are even more Francoist. This is the guy who then fills his mouth with talk of solidarity and equality. He has already managed to piss off and confront the socialists of Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Murcia and Almería with the politicisation of the Tajo-Segura water transfer (1922-1972). And also the Popular Party among themselves and with the socialists of those territories. The water war could last 101 years.
The inaction of this mega-government is the greatest public danger to our country. It is shameful to listen to this "hostage of the Moncloa" attack Madrid continuously before and after the defeat of the PSOE on 4-M. At his home on SER he emphasised in this time of bellowing "that when I walk around Madrid, I see a lot of poverty". Pure cynicism. From Falcon to home and from home to Falcon - by helicopter to Torrejón - nobody has seen him or will see him walk down the street and talk to people. The last time it happened he greeted a black person and then wiped his hand. That is his solidarity and his equality.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso replied instantly from the pulpit of Nueva Economía: "Sánchez has never walked around Madrid and all he wants to do is turn it into a neighbourhood of Havana". You know, Havana (Cuba), an island turned into a prison since Christmas 59 where repression has reached sublime heights for its wickedness. And they are so brave that they continue to endure the other prison of Guantanamo.
Therefore, let us not expect anything in the remainder of the legislature. His word is worth less than nothing. We already miss this man and he has not gone away. "Cvmplimos', his new slogan, is another lie. Two examples: he promised a Pandemic Law. Nothing at all. Instituto del Español: -he is unaware of the existence of Cervantes- to annoy Toni Cantó. Never heard of it again. There they have the concentrations of the palmeros because not a penny arrives there after the Cumbre Vieja tragedy. Don Pedro insists that no one will be left behind. Tell that to the families of the victims of the Chinese pandemic. If we go back to your repudiation of governing with UP - "I couldn't sleep"- and with Bildu - "with Bildu, never ever", do you want me to say it 20 times? Better, Mr. President, shut up and say nothing. Your words are incompatible with the truth. But we remind you that nuclear is already green in Europe. With you we will be late for everything.
The Guardian
The appearance before the regime's media (El País, La Sexta, TVE, SER, EFE and Diario.es (145 million in institutional advertising await them this year) was simply pitiful: The president is accountable to himself. Great. Shamelessly, shamelessly. He laughs at all of us and at the other media that come to his rigged calls to appear on the front pages and on the news. We do not deserve this providential man.
Well, after this appearance in mortal flesh on April Fool's Day - he had not given an interview for more than six months, he has suppressed those of the official visits of heads of state to avoid informing public opinion - he launches a little speech for imbeciles as if he were in a PSOE group and treats us all as if we were subjects. Not a single issue of human or social interest. Unemployment, electricity, the situation of the PCR and the antigens; the aggressions against minors in the socialist kingdoms of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, the harassment of families who want their children to study 25% Spanish in secessionist schools, the sovereignty challenge of Aragonés refusing to comply with the sentences of the TSLC and the TS and the train to Badajoz; the effortless passes, the civil servants with failed civil service exams, the desperate self-employed, the discrimination of the State Security Forces, the drug trafficking in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas and the immoral rise of the purchase. There is no such thing. Sepulchral silence.
Reality threw a spanner in the works on 3 January when the interview given by the quota minister Alberto Garzón to the Madrid correspondent of The Guardian newspaper came to light. "Spain exports poor quality meat from mistreated animals". A round headline. Only by doing a crash course in wickedness and stupidity can a statement be made to a foreign media to cause the greatest damage to the primary sector in the shortest possible time. Alberto at the top of the world! Sánchez no longer has to blame Casado for badmouthing Spain in Brussels. The one who speaks ill of the Kingdom is his great minister of Consumer Affairs (a Directorate General all his life) elevated to a quota ministry in order to give entry to undocumented people like the Malagueño pijo-progre who has Castro as a model. Go there, Mr. Garzón, and see how much meat the Cubans who do not belong to the PCC eat!
Citizen Garzón, a tax delinquent with his broken down IU donkey, the PCE's errand boy, has never worked, and has already spent the worst of his time from his official office mistreating farmers and ranchers. He began by keeping quiet when undesirable officials in Brussels declared olive oil and Serrano ham to be "junk food". What a load of crap! Then he went on to attack tourism, precarious employment and the low added value of the main engine of our economy since the 1960s. He continued with "how bad sugar is". As the eldest of the Garçons had already obtained his doctorate in the accelerated online course on stupidity, he went on to beat up on toys, biscuits, juices and meat - "don't eat meat" - and his nonsense against masculinity. But at her wedding there was no shortage of meat with pâté de foi. He even promoted a recipe book of ideological food. Those who have read it claim that it is nonsense and that some recipes are more expensive than lunch at Dabiz Muñoz's DiverXO restaurant. He is simply a professional agitator, a whippersnapper. May the gods forgive me!
As soon as the repercussions of such a betrayal and lie to the livestock farmers became known, this boor blamed the messenger; everything was recorded. And what is written is written. He then accused Mañueco of leading a lobby to discredit him. Hours before, president Lambán - the one who has approved a 2 million euro budget to promote the Aragonese fablas in the areas bordering Catalonia and the promotion of Catalan throughout Aragon - had asked the president for his resignation. Forty-eight hours later in the Federal Committee, he kept quiet and limited himself to advertising in the London newspaper. Vera, from Extremadura, cackled. Emiliano García Page was the bravest in his criticisms, but without calling for the dismissal of his leader.
The interpretation of the ministers of Defence, Culture and the spokeswoman was surprising: "He speaks in a personal capacity, not as a minister", they agreed. OK, but in the interview he is presented as the minister for consumer affairs. Margarita, Pilar and Isabel, thank you for trying to fool us as if we were idiots. Garzón himself, knowing that he works with a network, assured a few hours later, after the sopponcio: "I have spoken as a member of the [Spanish] government and I will continue until the end of the legislature". With two pairs. He lacked the horse.
One had always believed that, in a democracy, the president of the Council of Ministers had three inalienable powers: to appoint and dismiss ministers, to call elections when it was in his or her best interest and to devalue the currency. The latter was sacrificed when we joined the euro. But the first is inherent to the office of prime minister. Good. This Monday, after the socialist caravan led by His Sanctity Pedro I The Hostage in Palencia, we learned that Iglesias made him sign a paper to weld his people to the poltrona. Yolanda has been the intermediary. And she has warned P.S. that "the position is not to be touched". The fear of losing power overnight if he removes the illustrious Garzón senior from office prevents him from acting like a real president. When the doctor went on SER to explain more of the same and to punish the people of Madrid - the Government has "donated" 1.5 million euros for Filomena - he was asked about the political, economic and social news of the week that will extend to the Castilian and Leonese elections on 13F. The pro-green Sánchez regretted the incident, but did not criticise his minister. Which means that he keeps quiet, concedes and swallows. And that he is not in charge.
As always, he went off the deep end: "What is important here is what the government does for farmers and ranchers". And what does it do? The answer is from the livestock and farming people of my town: "Mistreat us". Mistreating us with the new CAP, with the Food Law, with the rise in electricity, agricultural oil, as self-employed, and with the new labour reform that does not take into account the work of the primary sector. Here, - my fellow countrymen say - we are not going to vote for Tudanca. Tudanca is Sánchez, is Podemos, is Garzón, is Yolanda, is Junqueras, is Otegui..." And what has the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, argued after this interference in his department? Internal annoyance. And to swallow like Sánchez so as not to break the "pax sanchista". The election campaign has begun with the year. Don't waste your vote on socialists, communists, secessionists, terrorists and Soria Existe, appendages of the PSOE. Vote in freedom. Vote more freedom. It is simple.
Decalogue for reflection
Writing fortnightly has a major handicap: there is too much overlapping news to condense, even in a chronicle-riot. But since Christmas, many things have happened that are worth remembering.
One: the government has started the year by raising its salary by between 1,500 and 1,690 euros. Between all of us taxpayers, we will not be able to afford it. It will raise our taxes by more than 15%. I have been preaching ethics and austerity since the CDS of Adolfo Suarez since 1982 with a clear idea: no elected politician should raise his or her salary until unemployment does not fall below 10 per cent.
Two: sanctioning Cayetana, suffocating Ayuso -it seems that détente will last until March- and scorning VOX is not a good strategy for the PP. Casado needs to wake up. The falling polls will bring him to his senses.
Three: Mayor Almeida has been brain-dried by the coronavirus. That of Almudena Grandes is a textbook clumsiness. Since he has had to name her Predilecta Daughter of the City, justify it for the well-being of the citizens. That's the end of it.
Four: this government has to explain why antigen tests cost 6.50 euros per unit in Spain and three times less in Portugal and Germany. In that country and in the UK they are given away for free. There are only two people responsible: Minister Darias and her boss Mr Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, the standard-bearer of child poverty.
Five: decorating Iglesias, Castells and Huerta with the Gran Cruz de Carlos III is a humiliation to all Spaniards. His Excellency the former vice-president did everything he could to destroy the Crown and to break up Spain. Castells was the most sectarian and lazy minister of the whole team. Huerta was there for seven days and received a thousand euros in compensation. You be the judge. Sánchez will not settle for less and will demand to receive the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Jarratera.
Six: the PNV, as always, gathers the best nuts. To the privilege in the Budget must be added the permanent surrender of Sánchez, handing him the competences of the secretaries of Town Halls and Habilitados. With the reception of these public officials, Urkullu ends up burying corruption in the Basque Country. On his orders, these groups will end up signing all the political outrages. All that is left for them to do now is to break the Single Social Security Fund. Maybe next year, Allah willing.
Seven: Barcelona City Council, led by Ana Colau, has commemorated this Christmas the "execution" of Francesc Maciá (1859-1933), the first president of the Generalitat during the Second Republic. A lie. Macíá died of appendicitis.
Eight: the national government wants to further extend information control. The new Plan envisages the creation of a 'National strategy to combat disinformation campaigns (fake news)'. A plan comparable to terrorist threats, cybersecurity and energy vulnerability. The prelude to the prior censorship of the new Francoism. More authoritarianism and submission to empower the Monclovite Caesar.
Nine: neither the Attorney General's Office nor the Supreme Court want to ban the "ongui etorri" to ETA murderers. Marlaska says that we live in a state governed by the rule of law. The victims of terrorism suffer this systematic violation, deepening their wounds and multiplying their pain. "The socialisation of the pain of the old Batasuna". Remember that pro-European slogan: "Hit him where it hurts". The shot in the back of the head. Miserable. That is why the terrorist Otegui says he is ready to govern. Thank you, Sánchez.
Ten: King Felipe was splendid in his military Easter speech. His explicit support for the victims of ETA and the Armed Forces was forceful. The army's missions (UME, humanitarian missions abroad, and its participation in the fight against COVID-19 -traraids and vaccinations-) are priceless. Margarita, take care of them.
Placement agency
We are beginning a year of moving forward, living with the pandemic and desperately surviving despite this government of excess and waste. The president has lost his constitutional capacity to steer this ship called Spain. If he is not in charge of his executive, how can he care about the common good? He presides over a shareholders' meeting that is nothing more than a permanent placement office for his friends and enemies within the party. Chieftainship, clientelism and plugging in. We are psychologically with a government installed in 34-36 but living 20 years back in the second decade of the 20th century. The assassination of José Canalejas led to the explosion of Granada's best procurer: the minister Natalio Rivas. Thanks to the Trevélez ham he reached the highest positions in the Nation. He will always be remembered for the gifts he made and wrote down in his 'Books of Favours and Recommendations'. The phrase Don Natalio, colócanos a toos! became popular. The leader of the PSOE is now the owner of the Next Generation's money. The master. The Getter.
Sánchez will hide his favours as state secrets, but you will agree with me that to achieve anything you set out to do, everything goes through Moncloa. Let them tell it to Susanita and Espadas, already senators of the Kingdom of Spain. Free rein to travel all over Andalusia for free as a socialist candidate. The partisan (unofficial) visit of Montero, Llop and Maroto to attend the inauguration of the new socialist mayor, Antonio Muñoz, confirms the fears of losing Seville. And the desire to reconquer the south of the south.
Sánchez no longer presides over a coalition government with the most extremist partners. He shepherds a herd of supporters and sympathisers who behave like radical grassroots militants and who he manages at will, (more than 95% approved the management of the Federal Committee), protected with the immunity of rebaja. He runs, with a steel glove, above all, a placement company.
*Antonio Regalado directs BAHÍA DE ITACA in:
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