Sunday, May 29, 2011

Luke Stobart on Rubalcaba

I wonder to myself, could life ever be sane again?


Great article on Comment is Free today by Luke Stobard. It offers an insight into the more authoritarian side to Rubalcaba, which is inevitable should you become Home Secretary, but nevertheless holds true with his handling of the airport strikes and so on.

The last lines of the article were particularly spot on:
If Rubalcaba does take over, it is hard to imagine a new convergence between government and the street. Instead, the political crisis of recent weeks may just be the beginning.
 It is not so much that Rubalcaba would break up the acampadas, after all the violence in Barcelona and Lleida, was done by the devolved Government of Catalonia (you can find a petition here for the resignation of the Catalan interior minister, Felip Puig). It is more to do with the fact that Rubalcaba is more of the same. He after all is the most powerful man in the current Government, which means that his Government would be no different from the actual one.

There is no hope for a renewal of the left, and thus there is no hope for the integration of the acampadas's demands into a current mainstream political party, which as Stobard rightly says can only make things worse.

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