For a very fleeting moment, I felt something akin to sympathy for Miriam Nogueras. And it’s difficult on a wide range of issues. Especially for a “Spanish” person (meaning a normal, healthy Catalan) like me. But let me describe the scene to you. He Ideas Café of RTVE It’s a morning program that sometimes coincides with my breakfast. Nogueras chats with his presenter, Gemma Nierga, the typical Catalan pijaprogre who is always on the sunny side of the street. And with the courage to never risk anything (because she is the establishment) asks him leading questions about immigration. From what I’ve seen, he likes to question representatives of political parties who have criticized the lack of immigration control on this subject. You can imagine: PP, Vox, Aliança Catalana and, now, Junts, which sees how the previous ones find themselves caught up in a hot topic. And Nogueras swears. Exactly what you guess from the self-censored title of my article.
In the Juntas, as in the PNV in the North, they are always very uncomfortable with these questions. You won’t believe it, but you consider yourself “progressive”, which is impossible when you are a nationalist and therefore against the grain. They just talk about liberals and they don’t know how to assure their voters that they will take illiberal actions without saying it at all. So it must really bother them that the posh, progressive presenters act maliciously towards them and try to make them say what they don’t want to say. But they must do it. Thus, Nierga asked her about the transfer of powers in matters of immigration, and the leader of the Junts replied that for them “it is very important to have control” because “now there is no control on people coming in and out, well-“. natural, manipulative and virtuous eat what you have to He blurted out: “Does control mean preventing those who enter now from entering? And, instead of Junts answering: yes, ma’am, well yes, you don’t scare me, he said “no, no ***, “Not to keep them out but to have control.” And then he laughed like a friend, afraid that it was what…. In other words, neither yes nor no but quite the opposite.
Yes, Myriam. Nogueras accuses the “central government”which fails to exercise “this control over immigration” to justify the complete transfer of powers that its people demand. You might tremble, but Catalonia could very soon have the full capacity to manage immigration on its territory. And given that, as in Madrid, the coalition governments are not at all looking for the best partners to develop policies that solve the problems, but rather are victims of their ideology, I fear that the same thing will happen as in the rest of the country. Spain. If their intentions were really good, they would join forces with a PP like García-Albiol, who, like a gentleman, placed a Christmas tree as non-multicultural as possible in front of his town’s town hall. Those of Nogueras will never achieve this because they have more important things in mind which require partners like those of a left which enchanted us last year with the ERC feminist Advent calendar, the celebration of the winter solstice or the Maga Queens parades.
This year, Barcelona City Hall replaced the nativity scene with a giant, luminous star which represents the origin of the universe. He also placed “Multicultural lights” in the Raval district so as not to disturb its large foreign population, particularly Muslims. And he installed, oh, daring!, a traditional nativity scene inside the building. He was criticized by opposition entities such as the Christian Social Current, who accused him of “hiding” the Birth. In reality, the voter Junts, coll***!, dreams of Albiol.
