Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont 'can be extradited to Spain'" video.

  1. Spain like making Martyrs.
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  2. ThatDutchguy but if he is prosecuted he will be seen as one. Spain's independence problems have not gone away, they are being suppressed, they remain below the surface.
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  3. ThatDutchguy Pain holds the member states together by a law that has no mechanism to change. The states should have the right to vote to leave the union.
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  4. ThatDutchguy it seem to me that Spain is a microcosm of the EU a federation within a fledgling federation. I know Spain is defined as a unitary government, but the autonomy of its regions make it look like a federal structure and certainly it was constructed like a federation. It is the Spanish constitution, with its article on indivisibility, that weld the component part unnaturally together, a bit like a box of compressed springs. In suppose, like the EU, the government hopes that national and cultural differences will fade over time, with future generation "educated" to forget their individuality. If the EU has its way Spain will simply be a regional name within the EU superstate. The US has been following this "education " process for centuries, yet there is still talk of states seceding from the US, California being an example. That is what brexit is really about, the UK is trying to secede from the fledgling EU federation.
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  5. ThatDutchguy rubbish, who makes the laws and agreements and why should they continue to exist over generations. Why should the children be bound by the politics of their fathers of grandfathers. As to grabbing and holding on to power, it seem that is something the government is doing. Who serves who. The government is the servant of the citizen, not the reverse. The people have the right to decide who governs them. It is not the government's job to decide who they govern. It is interesting watching how power has shifted in the EU. When it was formed the individual member states were in charge and the eurocrates ran the bureaucracy on behalf of the state governments. Now the eurocrates have become the masters, telling the state governments what they can and cannot do. Given time, Spain will find itself in the same position as its regions are now. It is already happening, as eurocrates in Brussels tell Spain how it should be run. At some point there will be a conflict of interest between what the Spanish people want and what the EU government wants, that is when movements will arise in Spain wishing to secede from the EU. How will Spain ( the government speaking for the people) react when it find that it is nolonger in control of its own country?
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  6. ThatDutchguy it was not wrong for the UK to wish to leave the EU. Article 50 provided the means to leave, thought I doubt it was ever thought it would be used. The UK has the right to be free of the EU. One must consider at what point a sovereign country ceases to be independent and becomes part of a larger union. At some point Spain will no longer be a sovereign nation, but just a region of the EU. At that points Spain's courts will be overruled by the ECJ, as it is now. At that point the needs of the other 26 members will be able to overrule Spain. Not so nice when you are in the region being told what you can and can't do. In a democracy the people have the right to elect those who represent them and make up their government, they also have the right to hold them to account. Exactly how does Spain hold those who control the EU to account? I am not advocating anarchy, I am defending democracy. There is a rhyme that seem apposite: rhyme by the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, named for the biological order of the flea. Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum. And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still and so on
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