The new team from Pablo Casado's PP says it wants to monitor what teachers say in Catalan classrooms. There are many jokes you could make about Casado and classrooms, his falsified record, the master's he obtained irregularly, give you more than enough to work with. But it's not necessary, maybe the justice system will end up giving the blow which boots him from politics before even he imagines. The betting that he won't reach the Moncloa palace as candidate for prime minister is open and isn't going precisely in his favour.
Meanwhile, let's stick to his rhetoric against the Catalan education system. Casado is campaigning on this question and on so many others very similar to the neo-Falangists of Ciudadanos. Against the language, against the education system, against its identity. The supposed philosopher's stone which should make a real change to the country, which they don't recognise as being such fundamentally because they're not familiar with it. To the Catalonia which is showing a commendable resilience in the face of adversity. And one imagines a legion of censors, as in the years of the dictatorship, watching that there's no deviation from the doctrine coming from Madrid and which was inspired by the preeminent former education minister José Ignacio Wert, the one who wanted to make Catalan kids Spanish when he was in charge and who ended up making headlines with the wasteful spending of his retirement in Spain's embassy to the OECD.
Casado, like Rivera, lacks ideas. If they don't go against Catalonia they're left with nothing. Casado&Rivera could end up suffering pre-campaign indigestion. Basically because the Catalan education system is not to be touched, as its teaching staff repeats. Others have strode into the issue before and have failed resoundingly. And if not yet, they will in time. Because theory is not the same as practice.