Catalan Devil’s Advocate
by George Kerevan
(Bella Caledonia, 4 Oct 2018)
Coinciding with the first anniversary of last year’s Catalan independence referendum, Aunty BBC has provided a handy guide to what they think might befall economically in Catalonia should the “separatists” (a recurrent BBC term) win independence. The Beeb admits that Catalonia has a strong economy the size of Denmark’s, a stomping growth rate of 3.4 per cent last year (when their referendum took place) and provides a quarter of all Spain’s foreign exports. But predictably, the BBC neglects to tell us Catalonia is a net contributor to the Spanish exchequer and has been used as a milch cow by Madrid’s perennially corrupt administrations – a factor underpinning the demand for Catalan independence.
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