Balearic Bliss, Cover Photo Cat Milton, 1st March 2016
We Are Balearic!
In celebration of Balearic Day 1st March we publish a 4 page Guiri ‘History Bluffer’s’ Guide to the Balearics.
Stark Balearic Naked—The theory that our name is derived from its naked inhabitants. No Cash, Just Wine & Women—Early Balearic bartering. Sling For Your Dinner-How Balearic kids earned their daily bread.
Anarchy 4 Esp Spanish politics in limbo land as PSOE leader Sánchez fails to form government leader Pedro Sánchez delivered his investiture address in Congress on Tuesday. In his 90 minute speech the socialist party leader talked of “a government of change and of dialogue” promising that it would save Spain from what
he termed its “current situation of impasse and rectify the consequences of the past four years of Popular Party (PP) government.” Speaking to the deputies of the lower house (think MP’s and the House of Commons) Sánchez called for the support of the other political parties that will be required if he is to form
a government and be voted in as Prime Minister. Though the incumbent PP won the election in December in as far as polling the most votes, they fell a long way short of the majority needed to govern. Sánchez has agreed coalition terms with new kids on the centre right (Continued on page 2)