The Partido Popular, at least as defined by the people who have controlled it for many years, is an integral part and textbook case of the neoconservative nexus: a Marxism which had merely changed its ending so that the bourgeoisie won, but which had retained intact its Marxist dialectical materialism, its Leninist vanguard elitism and identification of religious or other interests as "Useful Idiots", its Trotskyist entryism and belief in the permanent revolution, and yet also its Stalinist belief that the dictatorship of the victorious class should be built in a superstate and exported, including by force of arms, throughout the world while vanguard elites owe allegiance to that superstate rather than to their own countries. The ruling faction of the PP is one such vanguard elite.
It is also the party, and thus the ruling faction, for which not only "the markets", but therefore also the European Commission, have effectively ordered the Spanish electorate to vote, threatening all manner of dire punishment if the lowly voters failed to comply. If the PP had not won, then that would have been the last election in Spain for a very long time, or quite possibly for ever. After all, when is there planned to be another election in Greece? Or even in Italy, where a neocon viceroy took it into his head that he really was the Prime Minister and was therefore taught a lesson which now reverberates around the world?
The savage "austerity package" would have been imposed, as will now happen anyway. And Spain, which the PP took to war in Iraq in the face of 99 per cent public opposition the last time that it was in, would somehow have used the money thus "saved" to participate in the coming wars against Syria and Iran, as will now happen anyway.
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Oh dear, what a cynical comment. The PP is a genuine centre right party which has helped Spain to move from Fascism to a real democracy. It ruled Spain well and dealt understandingly with the regional forces which make Government so difficult. No-one forced anyone to vote PP in Spain. It just is significantly more competent than the anti- catholic Zapatero Socialists. The knee jerk anti- Europeanism of your comment would suit the Daily Mail but hardly a blog with pretensions of intellect and truth.
ReplyDeleteThere is probably no longer "a genuine centre right party" worth speaking of anywhere in the EU.
ReplyDeleteCertainly, if such a thing were to stand any realistic chance of winning an election, then global capital would go berserk in order to prevent such a victory, and would inflict hideous vengeance on any country that really did choose such a government.
Savage cuts and savage wras - nothing else will be tolerated.
So what does David Lindsay propose to the Spanish? There are only two routes. Either they pay off their debts, by reducing public expenditure, increasing taxation, and reducing the cost of so doing by retaining the confidence of the international financial community, or they leave the Euro, devalue the currency, push up the cost of borrowing and steal the money to pay for it all by cutting the value of everyone's pay, benefits, or pensions. The Centre Right offers the honest way forward which will hurt fewer people and deliver quicker. Those of us who remember Wilson's 'pound in your pocket' know which is best.
ReplyDeleteHurt fewer people? Pull the other one! The PP sells itself as vaguely a Catholic party. It isn't.
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