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It is five weeks now since  the question of independence from the Spanish State was put to the people of Catalonia in a referendum. That exercise was deemed by the Constitutional Court, sitting in Madrid, to be  ultra vires  vis a vis the Spanish Federal Constitution.Consequently they invoked Article 155 and effectively sacked the Catalan regional administration en bloc. Were it have been so simple as they had imagined it would be; alas not. Some of the pro-independence Catalan leadership relocated to Brussels whilst some others were apprehended and taken into Spanish legal custody in whose gaol they now languish. The late great Dario Fo would no doubt have revelled in the absurdity of it all and have composed   The Accidental Death of the Spanish State. Clearly,the tenuous post-Francoist constitutional legitimacy of the Iberian regime has been cast into doubt. Monday ,6 November has news reports from Belgium that a Judge,in the wake of the authoriti...

Sclerosis -rigidity,the inability to adapt. It is four weeks since the constitutionally legitimate Catalan regional government conducted its referendum on the question of independence from the Spanish state on October 1st. Four weeks on, Carles Puigdemont the Catalan President faces the possibility of being arraigned by Spain's public prosecutor on charges of rebellion.Other elected members of the Catalan Assembly might also face similar charges. These are prominent amongst the sombre notes being struck in a mounting cacophony of death knells sounding out across Europe announcing the temporal demise of the EU globalist tyranny. The post- Francoist federal Spanish state has proven to be just as institutionally,politically and diplomatically sclerotic as its European Union mothership of whom it is the merest vassal. Any reasonably adept political leadership, skilled in the arts of statecraft and the exigencies of  realpolitik  could have and would have negotiated a way...