Mr. Rajoy can be damn sure there was a referendum. Spanish nationalists and Scotland’s British nationalists – eager to keep the independence movement here at heel – have been repeating the chorus, “the vote was illegal – the police were in the right.” The Catalan government was expected to negotiate with the central government in Madrid, but they failed to do this. No talks have happened with Spain because such talks, according to the Spanish Constitution, are themselves illegal. Spain’s Constitution forbids constitutional change and talk of it is seditious.
When Brexit goes on Tour
If this story makes it into the UK media tomorrow we can be damn sure there will be editorial gymnastics performed to keep politics out of it. This, we will be told, was the antics of a few bad apples.
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