Politics in stereo

Yesterday was very odd. I kept seeing and hearing the same thing twice. In the UK, when the economy should have been the priority, a strongly nationalist government was being coerced by a weird party of political teenagers that wants to make the country independent of the EU in order to build Little England. The Labour Party was dithering partly because it fears being on the wrong side of popular opinion, partly because of internal division and partly because it has a very dubious track record on the issue. There is a principled small centre party that is clearly in favour of the Union but its voice goes largely unheard amid the clamour of the media that follows the nationalist line of its owners.

Meanwhile in Catalonia, when the economy should have been the priority, a strongly nationalist government was being coerced by a weird party of political teenagers that wants to make the country independent of Spain, and thereby of the EU, in order to build Cuba on the Med. The Socialist Party was dithering partly because it fears being on the wrong side of popular opinion, partly because of internal division and partly because it has a very dubious track record on the issue. There is a small principled centre party that is clearly in favour of the Union but its voice goes largely unheard amid the clamour of the media that follows the nationalist line of its government paymasters.