Catalonia is Spain

The ad El País wouldn’t print.

Trevor @ 24 May 2007 11:37 AM

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1. Shankill AB
   11:45 PM on 24 May 2007

   ‘El Pais’ were probably trying to save this salivating lot from their appallingly incompetent selves. What a thankless endeavour. I would have had no such misgivings and printed the rubbish, I’m all in favour of letting ethno-fanatics of every ilk be hoisted with their own petard. And to make matters worse this is a local election…talk of caring about ‘people’s real problems’.

   I thought this party was meant to be ‘non-nationalist’ -a mind-boggling definition in terms of non new-age Social Science, anyway. cf Billig, Michael.

   The wording of the poster lends itself to instant rephrasing such as ‘Bosnia is Serbia’ ‘You know it, we fight for it’ and suchlike.

2. Trevor ap Simon
   2:13 PM on 25 May 2007

   Whatever you think of the poster, it was smart PR: Zapatero’s boys wouldn’t have printed it anyway, so Ciutadans get to paint the PSOE-PSC as separatist sympathisers without having to foot the bill.

3. Trevor ap Simon
   2:16 PM on 25 May 2007

   And anyway, the nation goes marching on: Catalonia has been admitted to the European Baton Twirling Association http://www.racocatala.cat/articles/14243

4. Shankill AB
   8:24 PM on 25 May 2007

   ‘Ciutadans get to paint the PSOE-PSC as separatist sympathisers without having to foot the bill’..which, may I hasten to add, automatically puts them where they seem to crave to belong, ie in the same league as those old neo-Francoist outfits nobody wants to vote for, except a few clapped-out Fascists. Freeloading & brilliant tactics indeed.

   I’m awed by so much cunning, shrewdness and overall excellence and retiring for the week-end to lick my wounds in my straight and simple-minded cottage in North Donegal.

5. Trevor ap Simon
   8:34 PM on 25 May 2007

   A bit of sun might cheer you up.

6. Charles Butler
   9:07 PM on 25 May 2007

   Without losing their EU twirling subsidy either. Though they may have to communicate in Valenciano.

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