Always late
Seven out of ten Spaniards like Spain and the Spanish. The Fiesta Nacional has been a success. The people took to the streets on Wednesday to cheer on the Royal Court, the flag, the Magna Carta, the Armed Forces, the victims of Eta and those of the coronavirus; to remember our glorious past in Spanish America and to honour the Virgin of Pilar. The President of the Government arrived late. Deliberately. He made the head of state wait three minutes to prove to himself that he is the true emperor of the republic and the one who commands the most. The photo of Carlos Álvarez reflects the humiliation of Don Felipe and Doña Letizia. The humiliation of all.
Even so, he could not avoid the booing because the people do not forget the betrayals of this ill-mannered progre. The people do not love him. They do not insult him because he is a socialist, but because he is a compulsive liar who has put himself at the head of a communist coalition supported by ETA and separatists to fracture the nation. He breaks protocol because he has no shame. And he forbids them to announce his arrival over the loudspeakers so that he can wrap himself in the royal mantle. Radio conversations have confirmed that one of his collaborators reminded him that he was going to be late. And Don Pedro replied: "I know". Then, breaking protocol again, he left the Royal Palace before the monarchs themselves. "From the doctor, downstairs, none", thinks the protagonist of "The Four Seasons", his "Turkish passion". He is the protocol. Incompetence or bad faith? Both.
Farewell to Infidel. How he reminds us of Volkan Arslan's imposture! Always lying and deceiving everyone all the time. The champion of socialist ethics. And of wastefulness. And we still have to put up with him for another year at the 12-M-23 Parade. He's so cool that maybe he won't even go. We won't miss him. The fifty-two VOX deputies reminded him the next day in Congress that arriving late is not a discourtesy, it is a rudeness unbecoming of a tenant of La Moncloa. In keeping with his arrogance, his mediocrity and his incapacity to occupy the head of the Executive of our country. He acts as if he were Manuel Azaña, not Largo Caballero. He thinks he is the president of the Third Republic. And if the judiciary is not invited, so much the better. Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón is the apex of the three powers of the State. The master. He is always on top of the world. With a pair.
The General State Budget (PGE-23) is yet another year another version of the tale of "La Lechera". Minister María Jesús Montero presented surrealistic accounts based on Ricolas (Income) and Juanolas (Expenditure). Famous throat and cough lozenges, as you know. "We could have put the income without spending," emphasised Adriana Lastra's successor in Ferraz, "but it would have been a bit strange in budgetary terms. Am I explaining myself? It's just that, of course, I don't know how to explain it better", she replied to herself.
The head of the Treasury, to the astonishment of her journalist colleague, brandished her pills like someone playing Machín's maracas and finished off a master class. "When you affect a tax, you say: if you collect money for this product, you can only spend it on Juanolas. Shall I explain? If the Juanolas are not there, now you have the resources, but you have nowhere to spend them. And since you have nowhere to spend them, you are out of balance in terms of income and expenses. And she continued with the same self-assurance: "When we create the Ukrainian Decree, we will finance whatever: the Minimum Vital Income (IMV), the Social Bonus or whatever. The tax on energy companies and banks, although it helps us, does not affect their income". In two words: im-presentable.
All very sweet. This doctor by profession already left the coffers of the Junta de Andalucía empty during the time of Susana Díaz. She was responsible for covering up the EREs and not claiming a single euro from Justice to return the plunder of the Holy Innocents Griñán, Chaves and the "40 of Ayete". Everything that corrupts ferments. My God, what have we done to deserve this? Voting for the doctor of economics. I didn't, but there are those who did. What a GP!
We are faced with accounts that do not fit. What is more, it is a personal settling of scores by Pedro against the Communities of Madrid, Andalusia, Castile and Leon and the province of Alicante. The Catalans receive 92% more investment than the people of Madrid and 8% more than the Andalusians. These are 'sectarian and ideological budgets'. Sanchismo is taking revenge in the pockets of the people of Madrid, Andalusia and Castilla y León because we did not vote for Sánchez and his separatist cronies. Alicante is a preemptive warning for the May elections. The provincial council is in the hands of the PP and elections are always won from these institutions.
They are budgets that, moreover, fiercely punish the middle and working class, the mileuristas, the self-employed and coeliacs. And they benefit, as always scandalously, ERC, Bildu and PNV. The Basque Quota and the Navarrese Amejoramiento remain state secrets.
These accounts of uncertain income and disproportionate expenditure include a Bolivarian philosophy: more dependence on the government, the biggest generator of the poor. Despite the 3,000 million announced by Pedro Sánchez in parliament to alleviate energy poverty in homes with central heating, how can we explain the 400 euros for first-time voters, the 3.5% increase for civil servants, deputies and senators and the shameful increase of 4% for the immense ministerial cabinet? Don't the members of the government have the status of civil servants? And they are also republican budgets: once again they freeze the allocation to the Royal Court, which is the most austere in Europe. No water for the king.
These budgets of Mrs. Montero - Montero, Montoro, whatever -, (254,000 million of expenses) also include the 5 million of the presidential series. Why do we have to pay for their propaganda?
From minute one, the Bank of Spain, the BBVA, the EU, the OECD and the IMF have told Nadia Calviño that the 2.5 GDP growth is false. Therefore, revenues and expenditures are fictitious. They will leave us another black hole like Zapatero. And whoever comes after them will be left to fend for themselves. These are budgets for groups that "must vote PSOE". By decree. But Sánchez can no longer take to the streets because, since his debut in Seville - "reaching out to the people, skin to skin"-, he shudders to read the banner of a citizen who got under his skin and broke his schemes: "Let Txapote vote for you! That's where it hurts. It's good for the three election campaigns next year.
Pensioners are not going to succumb to the siren songs because this 8.5% rise is just a trap to mortgage the future of pensions and then squat the streets with the left and the unions the day after losing power. They will use the excuse of "energy poverty" to cover up the "Sanchist poverty" of the last four years. A lot of social spending, yes; there will even be ambulances for animals. The shield leaves out the vast majority. Too much public spending. Hispanicising life is the name for waste.
The government has not tightened its belt as it demands from taxpayers. Not a single euro has been cut in the interminable Council of Ministers. If they have punished the 21,000 rich with a compulsory "solidarity tax", they should impose another tax on the 85,000 politicians who are paid from the udders of the state. That will not be touched. The caste will keep its privileges.
In short: expansionary accounts that will inevitably lead us into recession. To make matters worse, the European Commission has warned Spain that the Next Generation Funds (140,000 million in six years) are not reaching the productive fabric to digitise companies. Barely 15% of the 16,000 million already delivered has been managed. Calviño does not know, does not answer.
When everything seemed closed, the Treasury uncovers the small print: taxpayers with more than 50,000 euros will see their personal income tax increase, companies will be punished with a special tax on Social Security contributions and a new cadastral tax on 850,000 properties. All this without deflating the IRPF. They are squeezing us for another year.
Escrivá demands to the employers' association CEOE that the contribution ceiling has to go up every year without discussion. Garamendi has broken the deck by being humiliated like the Crown. And Yolanda demands high salaries for the unions. "Or they will take to the streets", she threatens. She wants a rise like those granted by Sánchez in his own way. Yoli, no longer adds, only subtracts; She doesn't listen, she wants us to listen to her. We are not interested in his matria and we will continue eating strawberries. With all due respect, in my village they call this behaviour that of a pardilla.
These public accounts only make sense to distribute subsidies from the political power. And to win elections. You have been able to see that all the red lines (increase in Defence for NATO by 3,000 million), unacceptable to Podemos, have dissolved like tears in the rain. Echenique explained it perfectly: "We are not going to leave the Government because PP and VOX are waiting for us". They keep quiet and swallow. Sánchez is the insatiable pharaoh. "We need more taxes". The money, better in our pockets, Mr. President.
The departure of Junts from the Catalan government confirms that it is Puigdemont who calls the shots in the former Convergencia. The councillors and half a hundred officials of the Generalitat have resigned, but another 200 are negotiating their permanence with ERC. New adherents to the cause. Aragonés revealed that Sánchez promised him that the TSJC ruling on the 25% of studying in Spanish would not be appealed before the TC. And so it has been.
The surrender table is moving forward. The Count-Duke of Bolaños and the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, remain mute after discovering the betrayal. It has not been the last. The State High Inspectorate has always looked the other way. It has never appealed against the non-execution of sentences. Nor has it lifted a finger in the harassment of Canet's family. The social-communist government has managed to make the state disappear from Catalonia. Minister Pilar Alegria is full of mouths saying that "the law is there to be complied with". They trade with children's rights. The citizen Mayte Pagaza has denounced this totalitarian immersion in Brussels. In Valencia they have gone further by denying Ukrainian refugee children the possibility of learning Spanish. All subjects, including mathematics, are taught in Valencian to show that they are a colony of the Catalan empire.
The resignation of Carlos Lesmes has left the judiciary in the buff. It was already in a death grip. Now, Rufián has demanded that for the PGE-23 to overcome the absolute majority, Sánchez must fulfil not only the commitment not to appeal the rules emanating from the Generalitat, but the "de-judicialisation" of all those involved in the coup d'état of 2017 and, in addition, change the Penal Code to abolish the crime of sedition and lower the crime of secession so that the coup that they are going to give again will be totally free.
And therein lies the urgency of Sanchismo to appoint the magistrates of the TC with Conde Pompidou at the helm. He will be happy to "stain his robe with the dust of the road" of the Sanchist revolution. Objective: to break the mast of the 78 Constitution and win back the war lost by the Second Republic. Heroes 86 years late. They are late. The hatred accumulated by the left and the separatists will allow, with the new pro-green TC, to hold (unconstitutional) referendums for secession. In an extra-parliamentary forum PSOE, PSC and ERC have agreed on judicial impunity. Of the past and the future. The first step has been to withdraw the CNI from Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarre. Dismantling the State
Feijóo should never have come to La Moncloa. He will have time to recognise his dependencies. The president's call for help was a trap. The reason why Justice is politicised is confirmed precisely by that meeting in extremis. Participants: the secretary general of the PSOE and the president of the PP. The right thing to do would have been to encourage the parliamentary groups in Congress and the Senate, as they are responsible for the appointment of the members of the judiciary. No. Neither the popular leader nor his aide Esteban González Pons must have been very well aware of the oral agreements because hours later Sánchez himself set out his position in favour of them in the Royal Palace: "The system for electing the CGPJ will not be reformed; you win the elections". He doesn't give a damn what Europe says.
Núñez Feijóo has come out on top. Progressive majority in the CGPJ and the TC. Nine years of ordeal to apply the social-communist laws (democratic memory, catastrazo, trans law, linguistic immersion, dismantling of the State, more quota, more nuts for the PNV, more prisoners on the street with life pensions, more separatist blackmail, more pardons for the corrupt, more harassment of the self-employed and employers, worse education, more school failure and more dependence on social vouchers). One step away from the reasoning card. More authoritarian government and a ruined society.
Aznar and Rajoy wasted their absolute majority to return to art.122 of the Law of Laws but they did not have the courage. Don Alberto Núñez is going to need more than a written pact to resurrect Montesquieu.
A perfect breeding ground for the growth of mafias. The Official Secrets Act will enshrine prior censorship and turn the Transparency Act into an alibi for fumigating the opposition. The situation, friends of Ithaca Bay, is very serious. Five years after that massive response to the King's speech (on 8-0) a million citizens gathered in Barcelona to defend the Magna Carta and unity. Thousands of people took to the streets this 12 October to defend the same thing: Spain and the Spaniard.
The PSOE's video "Lies and more lies" against Feijóo has not had much traction. Nun's tweaks compared to the socialist lies. Sánchez couldn't sleep with Iglesias and took him to the river thinking he was a wench... May Federico forgive us for straining his verse. The doctor of economics told us seventy times seven, looking us in the eye, that he would never agree with Bildu. Otegi trembles after having laughed. The latest from Marlaska: 11 more prisoners transferred to prisons in the Basque Country so that Urkullu can take them home for Christmas.
Lies, the unfraternal relations with the southern neighbour that assures the United Nations that it has no borders with Spain: "Melilla is an occupied prison". Nobody responds. Sanchez's transparency is a veil of tar in his eyes... Thank you, Sabina.
Algeria has halved its gas supply to Spain and raised the price by 30%. It maintains its boycott of Spanish products. The Levantine ceramics companies are facing a blackout. Risk: 7000 jobs. Sánchez does not care because he continues to buy gas from Putin. Someday we will know the extent of the theft of classified information by the Pegasus system. Perhaps Margarita Roblespierre, also spied on, might remember that Germany officially invited her to participate in NATO's missile shield. Another collective lie is that we have already surpassed the pre-coronavirus GDP. The Mulhacén, not to leave the peninsula, only rises to 3,479 metres.
For a radio journalist - Jesus Quintero, El loco de la colina, has left us - it is a crime to be late for the appointment with the time signals. Punctuality is a religion. Fortunately, the socialist leader was consciously late on 12-O to make the Three Kings wait. He was too late for the pandemic, too late for the drought, too late for the water war, too late for the degradation of the economy, education and foreign relations. He was too late to avoid radicalising society with a government and its Frankenstein partners; he was too late to pacify RTVE and, in particular, to exhume the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. His family, with intelligence, will prevent an obscene exhibition like that of General Francisco Franco. The queues of hunger are more powerful at the ballot box than a television spectacle.
It has not been a good week for the future leader of the Socialist International. We heard the most radical speech of his entire term in office on Thursday in the Chamber. A mixture of Bolivarian Kichnerism with subtle hints of Evo, Petro, Boric and Ortega. As the bishop and missionary Pedro Casaldáguila taught us, "it is not important to arrive alone and early, but together and on time". When you are late, many citizens will fall by the wayside. Did he get the message?