The sickening events in Catalonia - women having their limbs broken by Spanish police just for voting - proves again why the the Brexit vote was right.
Put simply- we have nothing in common with these people.
Spain has had democracy for barely 40 years. And yet their vast swathe of MEPs and EU supplicants voted in the Strasbourg Parliament this week to condemn our democratic Brexit vote.
These people wouldn’t recognise democracy if it slapped them in the face with a plate of paella.
Fairly foolish post in my opinión, and using it as some sort of justification for Brexit is bizarre.
To cover all the ground you've dragged up would take ages - I've been covering this subject on CL but didn't bother here as this fórum is dedicated to football and Elfs. But to cover tje basics - that wasn't a simple vte. It was declared ilegal, and the Spaish government advised they would shut it down,The image of people waving their arms in the air pacifically is a good one, but they were hell bent on obstruction. To be blunt, would you welcome a break down in law and order in London? The vote, as was amply advised beforehand, would be used to proclaim a Catalan secession. They only achieved a 42% turn out, and the manner of voting would not be out of place in Venezuela, but despite there was a boycott from the no voters, the result has been claimed as definitive by the Catalan leader, who plans to announce Independence within days. Again Royston, would you see as aceptable the breaking up of England. It's dificult to draw a line between this event and others, as every country is different, but I cannot imagine any country in Europe that would sit back and allow itself to be dismembered by a vocal minority in one región. Finally, the Independence leaders denounced pólice brutality, in the Catalan courts. They had it thrown back in their faces yesterday. They were told that the referéndum was ilegal, and the injuries occasioned were the responsibility of the leaders who encouraged people to block entrances and occupy public buildings, and prevent the work of the pólice. It went on to say that the entire court demand was no more tan an attempt to cover up an ilegal referéndum with a smokescreen of injureis. An I'll add that quite a lot of the ones that appeared on TV are turning out to be false.
Not a single country has come out to say the Catalans have any sort of right of Independence after that. A lot of people in the EU have condemned the violence, and rightly so (Corbyn was one - Theresa May hung back) but no one wants to get involved in the mess the Catalan leaders are creating. This morning, the Catalan PM, Puigdenmon, announced we will get an Independence announcement within days, and advised Madrid not to get involved as it will go badly. I'm sure it will. The 42% who want Independence will no doubt come out and peacefully block buildings and public services if Madrid sends pólice or, god forbid, soldiers. So what's the answer? Sit back and let Puigdemont defy the will of more tan half of the voters on the back of a vote only idiots like Alex Salmond and Hristo Stoichkov support? Again, when people break the law in the UK, would you deem it aceptable to sit back and let them get on with it if they had enough bodies to make prevention an issue. Suppose a peacefull Islamic group declared Sharia law in east London? You telling me you'd say okay? Ha ha, Don't make me laugh.
It's a real knife edge situation here, and is sliding into anarchy. Sorry for being long winded, but democracy has nothing to do with what Puigdemont is creating in Catalunya.
