This section is going to grow faster than I thought (don't underestimate right wing paranoia as a force of nature when it comes to policy production).
Rajoy and inmigration. Rajoy has come out with a new legislative paradigm, the law of local customs. He has come out with the 'great' idea of creating a contract for inmigrants who want to reside in Spain for over a year. Such contract, according to Rajoy, would entail inmigrants respect for Spanish customs such as monogamy or the illegality of female genital mutilation (he could only name those two in an interview yesterday on prime time TV). Most probably Rajoy doesn't realise that a) local customs are not socially or legally defined therefore difficult to be codified, and b) his two examples are already part of Spanish law therefore his contract would be legally redundant. New show of hands, please. How many of you readers think this is an actual sensible and legally sound proposal or a simple let's blame the inmigrant that doesn't vote situation? I would go for the second choice again. Specially after Arias Cañete, the disgraced economic spokesperson for PP, yesterday went on an off message rant claiming that inmigrants exploit the public health service and work badly 'because I used to get my coffee and croissant speedily before [when we had Spanish waiters] and not anymore [now that inmigrants are the waiters]'. So there you are PP's inmigration policy, you make them pay taxes but don't let them use public services they are entitled to, force them to sign a contract with Spain as if we were an employer and finally if the contract is 'broken' the government and inmigrant can go on a long judicial fight, costing us taxpayers money, to clarify what the contract actually said.
Let's see if that proposal will be put up in regional elections where inmigrants vote in 2011... doubt so, they are crazy but not that crazy.
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