Spanish Political News

[Red Cat]

Thanks, I was watching Sky but each time I look back there is another story on.

 

[butchersapron]

Thanks, I was watching Sky but each time I look back there is another story on.

They seem to have been trying to move on since the rubber bullets were first fired. Think they may have been spooked. Or their on the ground reporter may have been.

 

[teqniq]

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Interesting to see what is happening elsewhere in Spain. A quick Google of regional news shows very public support for the Spanish government. El Pais has a story explaining all the reasons why the referendum is illegal. Nothing is likely to happen after the votes are counted.

--/ El Pais is about as reliable as any Spanish media.
In English

 

[planetgeli]

My gf just received a video from her sister in Barcelona from a polling station (via whatsapp). Police throwing women down a set of stairs, jumping down three steps at a time onto people's heads, pulling people out by their hair, random kicks to peaceful seated voters/protestors. Apparently this is a widely shared video, not taken by my sister-in-law. She is at a polling station in the countryside and the police are yet to arrive there.

 

[Kaka Tim]

this is only going to go one way. its gob smacking ineptitude by the spanish government. The catalans are not going to co-operate with madrid on any level. Presumably this will mean madrid taking direct control of the province and catalonias polticians arrested if they continue to operate as an "unofficial" authority - which they surely will. This in turn will craeate a situation where political violence against the spanish state is inevitable. Also inevetiable is the continuning fall back on populist nationalism by madrid. Aso - i imagine the basques are looking on with considerable interest/anger.

The fuckers could have just let the referendum happen (which may have rejected independence) than argued the toss afterwards. They have painted themselves into a corner they have created spains greatest political crises since the civil war.

For them - the integrity of the state and its laws must be upheld at all costs. Even if it involves beating and shooting people in the streets.

 

[Kaka Tim]

how long before the cops kill someone?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Couldn't agree more Kaka Tim, the Spanish government has seriously fucked-up here.

 

[butchersapron]

My gf just received a video from her sister in Barcelona from a polling station (via whatsapp). Police throwing women down a set of stairs, jumping down three steps at a time onto people's heads, pulling people out by their hair, random kicks to peaceful seated voters/protestors. Apparently this is a widely shared video, not taken by my sister-in-law. She is at a polling station in the countryside and the police are yet to arrive there.

That sounds like weepiper's ones above.

 

[planetgeli]

Not long if they are going to keep jumping on people's heads from several steps above. Cunts.

 

[planetgeli]

That sounds like weepiper's ones above.

Yep, thx, sorry for not reading all the recent thread. It is that one.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Guardian reporting that someone has been hit in the eye with a rubber bullet and has been taken into surgery.

 

[Pickman's model]

how long before the cops kill someone?

Light blue touchpaper and retire

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Shocking stuff from a EU government. If anyone in Catalonia was not that fussed I'm pretty sure they will be now, who would want to be ruled by a government which does that?

 

[chilango]

The images of this will resonate loudly in the coming years.

 

[Sue]

My Basque friends are watching this with extreme interest and anger -- they've always reckoned Basque independence could only happen after Catalan independence.

(They were also extremely interested in Indyref and couldn't understand why Westminster would agree to it...)

 

[Pickman's model]

The images of this will resonate loudly in the coming years.

Barcelona on 11/9/18 should be very interesting

 

[J Ed]

Barcelona match called off

 

[J Ed]

 

[butchersapron]

Barcelona match called off

Las Palmas added a Spanish flag to their kit for the game as well.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Cunts.

 

[weepiper]

Mossos protecting voters from the Guardia Civil

 

[cupid_stunt]

Mossos protecting voters from the Guardia Civil

This is good to see, more of this would be great.

 

[teqniq]

It would seem that the cops are not having everything their own way.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Fucking hell.

 

[butchersapron]

This is good to see, more of this would be great.

These people are not very nice too.

 

[cupid_stunt]

These people are not very nice too.

I know that, but if they stand up to the guardia civil, they can be heroes for a day.

 

[butchersapron]

I know that, but if they stand up to the guardia civil, they can be heroes for a day.

A very dangerous sort of nationalist unity to my mind.

 

[cupid_stunt]

 

[planetgeli]

There is a more dangerous 'unity' happening on the streets, where people wishing to peacefully vote, are being beaten and shot at, and on the internet, where the Spanish government is attempting to take control and remove websites. This is modern day fascism in a country that only removed it less than 50 years ago.

Fuck the Spanish government and the Guardia Civil troops they rode in on.