Seen from Britain, the Catalan separatists are most reminiscent of those weird "fuel protests" in 1999 and 2000. They are that sort of people, making that sort of point.
Those opining that the undeniably brutal reaction to them "could never happen here" are, similarly, the people who were shocked to the core at the very mildly strenuous policing of the Countryside March in 2002.
Used to having the Police as effectively their private security firm, nothing even so moderate as that had ever happened to them before. So they had assumed that it never happened to anyone, at least on these shores. Oh, but it did. Oh, but it does. And worse. Far, far, far worse.
All of which leaves British opinion somewhat confused about Catalonia, with the Right seeing its own people on the receiving end of what, to the Left, has always been normal, and even fairly restrained, treatment.
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