The fairground
The President of the Government, absent in the budget debate and present at the vote, has achieved what he set out to do: pay in advance (to ERC, PNV, Bildu, JxCat, CUP, Más Madrid, Comunes, Teruel Existe and Unidas Podemos), to defeat the seven thrusts to the opposition's totality and continue buying (in deferred) the partial amendments from the same blackmailers who lifted him to La Moncloa in 2018. The Minister of Finance, M.J. Montero, left her hand outstretched and the chequebook blank to the insatiable ones to overcome the stumbling block. It's all in the family. Power has a price. And we taxpayers always pay it.
With this coup, Pedro Sánchez, exhausts the legislature, which he himself will extend until January or February 2024, and in the 27 months that lie ahead, Tezanos Productions will have already prepared a story so that the maximum leader leads the polls and the PSOE becomes the most voted party and, therefore, with the right to govern until the 28th. The goal of the 2030 agenda, with Belarra as ruler, is within reach. That is why it has set its sights on the year 2050. The public accounts do not add up. Montero, Calviño and Escrivá lie as well as Salgado and Solbes did in Zapatero's time. Expenditure has skyrocketed while revenue is a fairy tale where the accounts do not add up. In reality, after the warnings of the IMF, the Bank of Spain, FUNCAS, the BBVA Studies Foundation and the CEOE, the Budget is a "settling of accounts" against the (constitutionalist) Autonomies and in favour of the separatists, nationalists and philo-etarras. "If you put the 200 ETA prisoners on the streets, we will vote for the budget", Otegi announced in a show of justifying the laundering of ten years of terror.
The doctor-president goes from fair to fair to buy and sell. He buys time in power and sells Spain in portions. His last handshake with Rufián, in the courtyard of the Congress before getting into the official car, after the Republican threatened him, confirms that his word and his handshake are a contract that ERC has already drawn up: "I don't know if they have enough petrol left for so much travelling". He had previously insulted the FSE and the government, with the complicit silence of the president Meritxel Batet, describing as false/false the complaint of the policeman kicked by the ex-deputy of UP, Alberto Rodríguez. The entire blue bench humiliated and Grande-Marlaska preparing the envelopes of 2,000 euros for prison directors to put criminals, terrorists and rapists on the street quickly. Their cowardice spreads day by day like the volcano of La Palma: smoke and fire. Desolation. He gave a rally five kilometres from Lardero (Logroño) and was unable to come to pay his condolences to the family of little Álex, murdered by the miserable and multi-recidivist F.J. Almeida, "discharged" three years before serving his sentence.
The moral character of this ex-judge (today a sectarian and unworthy Minister of the Interior) is the example of the Frankenstein government. Everything is imposture, lies, fraud, propaganda. Will he resign for the chain of errors in advancing the release of this rapist? No. Will he equalise the salaries of the National Police and the Guardia Civil to those of the Basque, Navarrese and Catalan officers, as the SC has asked him to do? No. Neither. We only know that after his meeting with Aragonés he has promised him 430 new agents, has authorised them to join Interpol and has entrusted them with the surveillance of coasts and customs, in other words, he has handed over border control, an exclusive function of the Guardia Civil. The best early Christmas present to start flirting with the mafias in ports and airports.
Forgive me for beating around the bush. Let's go back to the Kingdom's accounts. Bildu assured that they will not give a blank cheque, that the amendments will be voted for economic and social counterparts (all prisoners to the third degree in January), while the PNV after tearing out the SMV (Minimum Living Wage) thus breaking the Social Security Fund -then come the pensions- and the investments of the AVE, demands 230 million from the Government for the tax reduction of Isabel Díaz Ayuso who has renounced to her own taxes.
One has to be cynical and brazen with the demand of the lendakari Urkullu, after having Carlist economic privileges - unfortunately guaranteed by the Constitution - and a Quota (black and secret) that not even the Ombudsman himself, Francisco Fernández Marugán, has been able to access to the formula for setting it.
Ombudsman, Francisco Fernández Marugán. From the new one, Iñaki Gabilondo's brother, we expect nothing.
It is very likely that the amendments of UP and the Comunes will have less money, but with more legal measures: for example, that the Attorney General's Office and the State Attorney's Office dismantle the proceedings opened in the courts and, especially in the Court of Auditors, so that the Generalitat guarantees the 5.4 million euros of the pardoned coup perpetrators, including the fugitive Puigdemont. And for all the irregular financing of Podemos to be dropped, after "el Pollo" Carvajal's singsongy..
These are tolls that Don Pedro I the Fairground will pay little by little when we citizens pay to use the motorways. Next year. You have to listen to Pantoja in her good times. Lyrics and Music: Ignacio Román and Paco Cepero: "Luces de la feria/ Voy en mi caballo/ Yo soy una Reina/ Tú eres un gitano/ Eres un feriante/ Vas por los caminos/ Yo voy a casarme/ Dos mundos distintos/ Pero sí quisiera/ Que me besara tu labio/ Mientras que sigue la fiesta/ Y está mi gente bailando".
Pedro has already seen to it that Montero opposes the opposition. The applause after the amendments to the totality and the parade with the High Priest leaving the chamber were the culmination of his political career. The PGE/22 are urgent and necessary to receive the first 10 billion from the EU and to finish the 14th Legislature. Now, by extending them for two years, it will be enough to survive and arrive in better conditions for the general elections. We have a president for life. .
Pablo Casado, a genius of strategy, publicly admitted a few hours ago that, in effect, this legislature will last 50 months. He is right that these budgets are stillborn, and who cares about that? The social-communist propaganda will take care of neutralising his prognosis. When the secret document sent to Brussels is revealed, we will confirm that the social-democratic president has become a conservative liberal to save his skin and will not repeal Rajoy's damned 2012 Labour law.
With three unconstitutional judicial blows by the TC, (the first state of alarm, the second of six months and the closure of Parliament) the government is slipping. Not a single justification. Authoritarianism and governing on the basis of Decree-Laws. More than 100 in little more than three years. Quite a record. The dead are a relief for pensions. And now it will have a majority in the institutions. The PP's surrender to agree on the CGPJ is a matter of days after having removed the head of Margarita Mariscal de Gante in the Court of Auditors.
The betrayal of Isabel Díaz Ayuso by placing Ángel (exterminator) Gabilondo in the institution enshrined in art. 54 of the Magna Carta - "if it were up to me you would never be Ombudsman"- shows that the harassment and demolition of the president of the Community of Madrid is an attack of jealousy because, given the lack of authority of Casado and his lieutenant Teodoro, they prefer the Third Way of Pío García Escudero. The 'IDA effect' exposes the lack of shame of the mayor of Madrid, who has become the boss of the 'chiquilicuatres' of Genoa13. Nobody understands, neither inside nor outside the party, the discrimination against Ayuso, who has won the street and is the biggest boost for Casado to reach La Moncloa. At this rate, punishing Isabel, the militants and the Madrid voters of the PP and distancing himself more and more from Abascal, he will spend the last bullet for three simple reasons: mediocrity, lack of leadership and lack of ideas. He is playing Russian roulette.
Pablo Casado has become Sánchez's best ally. His brilliant intervention on the Budget has been of little use to him if he then runs away like Sánchez when he has to face the press at delicate moments. After Cospedal fell in the first battle of the primaries, we supported him. Soraya and her handbag were the prelude to the end of 'rajoyismo'. Today, we feel disappointed. Casado is a junior Rajoy without the opposition to become a Property Registrar.
Meanwhile, the illustrious pastry chef of the CIS informs us that Yolanda Díaz, a specialist in kicking against the RAE - "autoridades y autoridadas", is her latest blow to the dictionary-, is the highest rated politician in the Government and in Spain. She does not explain why or who voted for her. It is another lie to entertain her with the repeal of the labour reform and confront her (in concert with the deputy prime minister Nadia Calviño) to gain time while covering up the millions (13) she has pumped into CCOO and UGT to "stop the street" in case she heads an electoral platform. A lady who belongs to the Galician PCE, the anointed candidate of UP Pablo Iglesias, flirts with Colau, Oltra and Teresita of Andalusia while she annuls Ione, Irene and Isa, that already has its own name: Miquel Roca and Junyent. And the girl goes and believes it.
It looks like Operation Roca (Democratic Reform Party) with Garrigues and Florentino as extras and Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles, ex-prosecutor of the CGPJ, at the head of the list. He did not win a seat.
Roca became a member of parliament because he headed the CiU-Pujol list. Yolanda lives her dream because it is guaranteed by the guru Redondo. We have already analysed his handwriting and found that he is only the assistant of the carny Sánchez and little more. We return to recreate Isabel Pantoja, who sings with all her soul. Yolanda (Yoli), listen:
"Feriante, /Llévame al río/ Que quiero volverme loca/ Que quiero besar tu boca/ Y olvidar mis apellidos. Feriante, / Take me to the countryside/ I want to dream of you/ Gallop along the roads/ On your white horse, Feriante, /What bad luck/ I was born to love you/ And I can't be your lover".
Knowing Don Pedro and his troops (the word austerity with 23 ministries and more than 1,000 advisors has not yet found meaning), Yolanda will end up with her Electoral Platform full of (vertical) trade unionists who will not be able to take to the streets after attending the demonstrations of ETA and the separatists. The walk through the Monclovite gardens has run out of autumn. Sánchez lit the fuse in the investiture debate with the repeal of the Labour Reform, continued to encourage it in the party and at closed-door rallies and sent the communist Yolanda as a town crier. "They are fair budgets" he lied yesterday in Zaragoza with Lambán applauding moderately.
And then Caesar gambled and insisted on the repeal in the final stretch of the XL Congress of the PSOE in Valencia. After his visit to Rome and his 25-second cosmic meeting with Biden, he downgraded the euphoria to "improvement" in some little things of the Rajoy Law. Now, Calviño, before seeking a post in international organisations, is manoeuvring in Brussels with her friends in the Commission so that the German and Dutch finance ministers do not refuse to give their "yes" to the first 10 billion of the Next Generation.
But the rise in electricity and diesel prices, the aberrant rent law, the compromised situation of Spain in the Algerian-Moroccan dispute, and the increase in the price of the shopping basket are already being felt by us as customers and consumers. The danger is called the CPI. Inflation is unforgiving and unemployment is not going down. Recovery is not coming. We insist once again: the 2nd MONCLOA AGREEMENTS must be signed, with all the social agents, including this time the return to nuclear energy. The Employers seem to be waking up from their pro-government reverie.
The fairground carny took her to the river believing she was a girl, but she had a "marío", as we learnt from García-Lorca. These General State Budgets are only a step forward to consolidate only Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón in La Moncloa. Not Yolanda's queen.
There is no alternative, unfortunately. The great Isabel Pantoja has already anticipated it in all its splendour: "Todo fue en mal sueño/ Cosa de la feria/ unos ojos negros/ como dos candelas/ Sobe mi caballo vuelvo con los míos/ A apagar el gitano/ su fuego en el río/ Fue un mal pensamiento/ que pudo ser la locura/ y se quedó en mi recuerdo/ como una herida en la luna". [I recommend watching and listening to Isabel Pantoja's El Feriante on Youtube].
After overturning the amendments to the totality, the PSOE has accused the opposition of lacking patriotism - you've got to have some nerve! -when throughout democracy, the opposition has always presented an amendment to the totality of the public accounts. To complicate the session, the inclusive minister J.L. Escrivá pulled out of the hat at the most inopportune moment the botched 0.5% increase in contributions for workers and employers in order to straighten out pensions. Another obstacle to job creation. And the collapse of SMEs and the self-employed. [Let's convene the Toledo Pact at once and stop laughing at us all.]
The ERC was tearing its hair out revealing that they have been "fifteen minutes away from presenting the eighth amendment to the totality". Theatre. One more lie from the racist republican party that has announced the creation of a political police station [pure Nazism] to eradicate Castilian in the classrooms. Only the rector of Salamanca, Ricardo Rivero - Thank you countryman! - has denounced the secessionist harassment of the university. Forty-eight hours before the Budget Debate, the liar Illa knelt on his knees before Aragonés and offered him enough votes to push through the Catalan accounts and avoid the price of the call for a unilateral referendum on independence by the CUP and Puigdemont's disciples who want to continue sucking from the udders of the State. Montoro and Montero have already given them 72,000 million through the FLA and they have not returned a single euro. Nor do they intend to do so.
This populist government is hostage to some pro-terrorist, nationalist and separatist partners who demand total freebies and the laundering of their crimes. The carny makes them all happy at the stroke of a chequebook. But the price of power while Spain is being destroyed is paid by the taxpayers with more taxes, more unemployment and more inequality. The ideological game of this pendulum-swinging Executive - we still do not know what the labour reform or the compromise with Brussels consists of - is highly detrimental to the country's stability and to the return of investment. And without investment there is no progress. And no future.
Antonio Regalado runs BAHÍA DE ÍTACA in:
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