Rajoy gets Smacked
 

Video: Spain PM punched in the head during campaign appearance - Telegraph

Fell for the sucker punch.
Some kid pretended he wanted his photo taken with Rajoy, before giving him a whack in the mush.
Looks like a visit to specsavers will be in order now.:lol:

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Tread lightly Dick,

Rajoy is about as "right" as any Spanish politician gets, and things have demonstrably improved under his watch (although nobody would admit that). The theoretical "replacement" is the likes of Podemos. But on the upside, you'd be having a forum heyday as Spain goes down in flames.

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Well he has you fooled at least.
His disrespect and lack of compassion for common people has been shocking.
In real terms unemployment is as bad as ever it was.
Taking into account temporary slave labour jobs at slave labour wages and the numbers who have left Spain to find work elsewhere, nothing much has changed and the true unemployment levels are a disgrace.
He may point to improved growth figures, but most folk see no benefit at all and in real terms most are much worse off than when he took office.
Some of the new gagging laws he has introduced are reminiscent of Franco.
He may be able to treat most of the population like dirt, but basically he is still Merkels puppet.

Oops, I hope those comments haven't put me in line for another 30,000 euro fine.

http://www.lacuna.org.uk/openlacuna/...st-generation/
The Lost Generation.

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So what's your solution? Podemos? If you think people are poor now...

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Rajoy is for me the best of a bad bunch, it can't be denied the economy in Spain has improved under his control reguarless of how you spin it

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No, Podemos have shot their bolt, though they never were a viable alternative anyway.

Apart from the points I mentioned, the two main parties still stink to high heaven with corruption, though unfortunately quite a lot of Spanish look upon it as the norm and I fear in that respect Spain will never change.

What about these guys ?
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/20...as-spanish-pm/

Another point I failed to mention is how Rajoy is controlling much of the media output.
He had his own people put in place to partly control the output on
National stations and it's been obvious the last few years how the newsrags have been terrified to be too critical of him as they're aware of the consequences.
He seems to get about 90% coverage, while other leaders have been pushed into the background and hardly get a sniff.
Political Demonstrations are almost a thing of the past as well, or if they do dare to risk the wrath of the heavy handed cops, little if any is available for public viewing.
He's little more than a modern day version of Franco in my book, the only thing missing is the firing squads.

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Too true.
That's why Ana Pastor quit her job with TVE1 before she was pushed; Cospedal had complained that Ana Pastor's questions were "too aggressive".
If only there were a Jeremy Paxman or John Humphries.

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My solution would be Fabian Picardo

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Rajoy is nothing more than the Spanish Cameron.

Good for those who have money and highly paid jobs. To the millions of ordinary people living day to day, he is a dangerous nightmare who cares not one iota whether they survive or not.

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Here's what ABC made of it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWYie9SWUAAfxkY.jpg

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no matter what you think of his policies, it was wrong to punch him. I hope the yob gets an appropriate sentence.

There has been some good coverage of the Spanish election on Euronews (508 on Sky)

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Yes but I think too much is being read into it. The yob was a 17 yr old kid.

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And that makes a physical assault on another person acceptable then ??

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Not acceptable but understandable.

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Now you're reading too much into what I said.

Of course it's not acceptable, but it's being used to generalise criticism against the other parties in a stupid way (and no, I don't mean here, I mean on social media and by some sectors of the press).


Turns out the young yob is the son of Rajoy's wife's cousin.

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Quite.

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Why 'understandable' ?

There may be some that think that groups turning to acts of violence, whilst not acceptable is understandable !!

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Understandable or not, this wasn't a group. It was one young lad.

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But the principle is the same is it not ? using violence against another person is not acceptable even if it is just one person against another. For example, you are walking down the street and see someone voicing an opinion that you do not agree with, so it is okay to walk across and hit them in the face is it ? I am sorry, but perhaps we will just have to agree to disagree on this one.

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I think you're misinterpreting me again. I don't think we're disagreeing at all on whether it's acceptable to lamp someone you disagree with.

What I'm taking issue with is the number of people who were so keen to attribute this to a group of some kind (as you have just done) without any evidence whatsoever.

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No I wasn't attributing this recent incident to a group. It was the response to the statement that the 'violence' was 'understandable'. Where does violence start, where does it end. In this case probably it ends now as a one off, but in lots of other cases a single act of violence can escalate very quickly so, in my own personal opinion, no act of violence such as this incident is acceptable.

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Ah, I see,. It was this that confused me.

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The 'groups' reference I made was in the context of 'Violence' and the statement, 'Not Acceptable but understandable'.

We could end up getting tied in knots here ;)

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The O.P.s original remark in relation to this single incident was "not acceptable but understandable" and he/she neither used the word violence or indicated that all violence was understandable.

No matter how much we all abhor violence, there are very few amongst us who do not have a breaking point where we snap and the red mist comes down.

We as expats probably have little comprehension regarding what some people have gone through over the past eight years and even now still see no prospect of any improvement in their own lives.
The younger ones are now commonly referred to as the lost generation.
Rajoys attitude to those in deepest trouble has been little more than callous.
For instance consider all those who have been thrown out of their own houses onto the streets through no fault of their own and also consider the resultant suicides.
Rajoy was very happy to protect the banks come what may,at the expense of people's lives.
What this particular lad or his family have gone through, we may never know, but obviously it has become much more than he personally could bear without responding, hence this particular incident.

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Dick, this poor lad is from a relatively wealthy family, PP supporters. His mother is the cousin of Rajoy's wife. See above. Sounds like he has his problems though.

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It is remarkable that in UK both Ian and Duncan Smith haven´t been smacked too!

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[QUOTE=Dick Dasterdly;11815674]..................Some of the new gagging laws he has introduced are reminiscent of Franco ........Oops, I hope those comments haven't put me in line for another 30,000 euro fine.). His despicable attempts to gag free speech and peaceful protest have put him beyond the Pale as far as I am concerned

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I think I may be missing the point but if the young man is a relative and he wanted to hit him why not do it in private - could it have been a publicity stunt?

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Some sackings in his security team possibly?