South of Watford
South of Watford
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I fell asleep and I woke up here. Madrid based guiri talking all kinds of shit about Spanish life and politics. Can't even do a decent profile description. Posts in English and pidgin Spanglish
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But it's happening everywhere. There may be local factors but, like housing or salaries, it's not something that is unique.
What does it take to get Begoña Gómez off the front page of Spain's rightwing media? Money.
-Yeah, the war in Ukraine. Very important, but where's today's anti-Sámchez headline?

- Coming up boss
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You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2.

Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.
"Milei, once a global poster boy for budget-slashing libertarian politics, is heading into the polls diminished by his failure to stabilize the ailing peso, despite spending nearly all the Central Bank’s dollar reserves to prop it up."
Argentina formalizes $20bn currency swap deal with US
Bailout by Trump attempts to stabilize shaky economy under Javier Milei as he faces mounting midterms pressure
www.theguardian.com
We'll have more on that Milei economic miracle story as it develops.
Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?

TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
Acabo de comer un buen cochinillo...
I think it's going to be easier in the end to find a deserted island for incoherent racists to live on.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
They'd be able to tell us who did it if they didn't have their top reporters investigating a PSOE trip to China?
Almost as if they are not interested?
Who knew that "propped up with yet more dollar debt" translates to "potenciado" in Spanish?
Labour falling behind the Tories, not as easy as it looks!
📊 Ref lead of 15pts
‼️ Labour and Greens tied
Westminster voting intention

REF: 32% (-)
CON: 17% (-)
GRN: 15% (-)
LAB: 15% (-2)
LDEM: 12% (-)

via @FindoutnowUK, 45945
Chgs. w/ 08 Oct
britainelects.com
Britain Elects | Substack
Cutting through the noise with Ben Walker. Click to read Britain Elects, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Mucha bronca, y poca participación.
Manuela Bergerot ha echado en cara a Emilio Delgado que lance su candidatura a liderar Más Madrid mientras su compañera Jimena González estaba secuestrada en Israel.

Se viene una bronca bien gorda en Más Madrid.
"Our political ancestors knew that to be effective you have to keep coming back. You have to turn up where it counts. You have to make a nuisance of yourself. You must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. One by one, all these rights have been struck down."
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com