There are slaps in the face which are heard around the world and, probably, the one from the United Kingdom justice system refusing to take action on the "disproportionate" European Arrest Warrant for minister Clara Ponsatí is one of them. The deep state couldn't make more of a fool of itself: the Spanish justice system, the Spanish government, the political class, the media... this whole group of state dignitaries who have dragged the credibility of Spanish democracy into the mud to try to save Spanish unity. For the third time, the first since the Supreme Court verdicts, British authorities have said no. But it's not any old no that would allow for a minimum of debate for the Supreme Court to save face. It's a no that humiliates, a no that shames, a no that disgraces. And in the middle of all this dressing down, the Vox leader Santiago Abascal, put the cherry on top: close the gates at Gibraltar. "Spain has to be respected by the world again." For less, minister Trillo invaded Perejil island and the Argentinian dictator Galtieri invaded the Falklands.
These days, one has the impression of being a live spectator to Pedro Sánchez's political fall because otherwise, how are we to understand the series of errors. The surveys they've got in the Moncloa government palace must be very bad because they come out doing damage everywhere they go and getting themselves involved in tricky situations where they have no good options. It must be nice to think that there are only three days to go until the citizens start to vote and they stop leaking support. The morning had started with one of Pedro Sánchez dozens of interviews with the media (sole condition: it can't be Catalan) and him doing colossal damage to the independence of the public prosecution service. In fact, PSOE's candidate went as far as saying that the government was bringing president Puigdemont to Spain, since the prosecution service depends on the executive. To the journalist's surprise, asked if he wanted to add anything else, he merely stated: "Well, there you are."
Neither the attorney general, nor the different associations of prosecutors could swallow the punch in the stomach they were offered by Pedro Sánchez, which wiped out their autonomy in a matter of seconds. Deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo came out to pick up the pieces her boss had left behind and, with her usual skill, did nothing other than deepen the wound: "The public prosecution service is framed within the area of legal power, it isn't legal power." An explanation which merely left hanging those prescient words from a PP minister which were recorded and which now PSOE seems to be making its own: prosecutors will sort it for you. It wasn't a good day to irritate prosecutors here, whilst you can lose everything up to and including your shirt. Meanwhile, the British police, sarcastically, asks its Spanish counterpart to send Ponsatí's "previous offending history". As Oscar Wilde said, you've got to have a heart of stone to not die laughing at some things.
By the way, with the father of president Carles Puigdemont, three close relatives of the exiled Catalan political leaders have now died since the state's repression over the proclamation of independence. The other two were the brother of minister Toni Comín and the father of minister Lluís Puig. And, meanwhile, the European justice system is knocking down the arrest warrants one after the other and not validating the EAWs. Pain can be withstood. Injustice can't. Lessons from those saying that it's the independence movement that has deprived them of their liberty, minimal. Enough of this farce already.