PP's hipocrisy surfaces again.

Another appaling display of hipocrisy today by PP, this time in the Senate. The leadership of PP must presume voters are stupid people who can't read and therefore they can get away with anything. That can be the sole answer for their behaviour today.

For the last four years PP has relentlessly accused the Socialist Government of giving away the shop to the Catalan nationalists, demonised Catalan people in the rest of Spain and taken the new Catalan Statute to the Constitutional Court. But today they put aside all those stances on behalf of their so-called 'Spanish patriotism' and voted in favour of the vetoe proposed by CiU (nationalist Catalan party) and supported by ERC (independentist nationalist Catalan party) to the Budget for 2008.

The Catalan parties wanted to threaten PSOE with a vetoe to force them to negotiate further investment in Catalonia. And PP has supported that goal today with their unanimous vote. After permanently accusing PSOE of giving away too much to Catalonia today they changed it all and PP's hipocrisy has surfaced once again. They voted today together with their archienemies because they care more about beating PSOE than about standing on principle. This vote today dismantles PP's stance throughout this term, they only care about winning not about building anything of substance in the benefit of the country. They don't care how many lines they have to cross and how much divide they might create as far as people vote for them in March. But this last move is quite something. They have in one vote change their stance in one of their key issues this last four years just to deliver a small defeat for PSOE. How can people trust them anymore on any issue? Are they going to flip flop like this if they get to govern again? Are they willing to compromise the common good for the sake of a victory? PSOE will still pass its Budget in Congress overriding the vetoe and PP will have to explain to the electorate why the devils of yesterday are their friends of today.