Striking Similarity

The Catalan separatists are not an attractive lot. They want their rich homeland out of a union in which they have to pay to maintain poorer areas. But the Spanish Government has made their case for them, ably assisted by the EU and NATO. We should be out of both of them, and so should everyone else.

But anyone who says that "it could never happen here" is either extremely dishonest or just plain thick. Twitter has been awash with pictures of the Miners' Strike, and especially of Orgreave, that bore more than a passing resemblance to the ongoing scenes in Catalonia. The history of any social improvement in Britain is drenched in the blood of the people who literally had to fight for it.

The EU (as it really always was) and NATO did nothing about the British State's war on the miners, either. We should be out of both of them, and so should everyone else.