People’s Party (Spain) – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

If the PP isn’t monstrously corrupt, why isn’t Bárcenas wearing cement shoes?

You’re not telling me the mafia’s stupid or forgiving, surely?

Re his Spain-is-different, anti-independence letter to the FT, some wonderful people believe (h/t Tom) that our happily married ambassador in London also has considerable personal experience of life outside the union. (Is Julia de Micheo Carrillo de Albornoz one person or two? What are her parents’ surnames? Did she get on well with her classmates…

% of Spanish electorate not voting for any candidate vs % of electorate voting for winning party, 1977-2011

No tumbrils for Mariano just yet.

Is Gertrude Stein pulling the strings on the Balearics?

José Ramón Bauzá, in government but losing the power of speech.

How I tried to vote PP and ended up electing a freaking dentist

Blueout in the election of the beards.

The end of the puente aéreo Albacete-Barcelona

But may a new link to Zaragoza be in the offing?

Rubalcaba and the German electoral system

Josu discusses what the PSOE candidate might have meant and the possible consequences. Key para: De hecho, sii trasladáramos a España el sistema alemán “entero”, con reparto nacional, umbral del 5%, y con sus excepciones, resultaría que suponiendo unos resultados como los de 2008 (supuesto imaginario, porque la gente vota distinto con reglas distintas) ni…