Election day over here today, which has been turned into an Independence referéndum (given that the parliament in Madrid refused to allow a legal one). We've had lots of pólice trolling about the place lately, which rether suggests more of an armed revolution coming, than a civilised election. The polls suggest it's a close call, but my wife just voted, and on the radio, they are saying the turnout is massive. In Scotland, it was those unwilling to declare who swung the vote to a close No. Here, they seem to think that the new voters who don't usually vote, are so jacked off with corruption, threats of the consequences of a yes vote, and the huge taxes Madrid syphons off and does'nt return, that they are out for big changes.
I'm not an Independence voter myself. I see it as breaking up into smaller and smaller kingdoms, as we drift back through the middle ages to a point where it's all small isolated villages again. It would be nice to see the Spanish ruling party get a nice snack on the knuckles, as they have'nt been slow to dish it out. There has been none of the bribery here to the Catalans to stay Spanish that Cameron and co offered up to the Scots. It should be fun tonight when the votes come in.
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Enjoy the vote.
But not sure 55% No vs 45% Yes can be considered a "close No" vote in Scotland.
Are the pro-independence guys in your neck of the woods using the same intimidation tactics thay were used in Scotland? I'm guessing that may have backfired badly.
The logistics of independence have not really been addressed by Artur Mas either - being out of the EU, the Euro or new currency, national borders, passports, army?
Will be watching the results closely tonight...
I'm still waiting for England to be given it's own vote for independence. Though we'll almost be independent when Sturgeon has the second Scottish vote
Or they could follow the Cardiff/Swansea/Monaco route and play in their neighbouring country's league.
England is one of those countries.
And, if you're going to move from one capital (which Barcelona will be), you would probably want to move to another.
But not just to any team in the capital, but one that has some background in acquiring the very best players from Barcelona in the past.
Not necessarily a team in the current Premiership, but one with at least an outside chance of being promoted to the Premiership this season.
So, clearly, we need to make some space at the Sparrows Lane car park for the cars of Messi, Neymar and Suarez.
I'm right, aren't I?