Hi All,
As regulars will know I fully support Kurdish independence - Kurds are another minority group in the middle east which reminds us that it is not solely Arab or fundamentalist Muslim- and it was good to see a democratic mandate to this last week as 92% voted for an independent Iraqi Kurdish state.
What is NOT surprising is the contrast between that referendum and the current banana republic machinations of the Spanish government , which is verging on real fascism , toward its own citizens in Catalonia. I don't know enough about supporting Catalonia independence. I do know that Spain can't afford to loose the richest area of the kingdom. It would seem the Spanish government is still in the mould of Torquemada , the inquisition , 1492 expulsion of Jews , the Armada and Franco.
I also know that trying to prevent this referendum using the police and bullets will only drive people to the separatist cause . You can't force people to be in state they don't want to be in. But the biggest irony is that before this crisis opinion polls were telling us voters would be against succession: it takes little brains to see where Rayjoy's actions will lead.
It also reminds us we couldn't give Gibraltar to these thugs. Not that we need to as overwhelmingly the people of Gibraltar voted to stay British. Not that Spain gets democracy....
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