Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain

Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by marcosscriven on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:17AM (#15568502)

They can’t really claim a mandate for leaving when those who wanted to stay boycotted the vote. That said, it would have been much less divisive if a proper referendum had been sanctioned.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by frobozz on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:24AM (#15568578)

They have a better mandate than UK leaving the EU:

92% pro, from a 43% turnout = 39.56% of the electorate in favour of Catalan independence.

Compare to 52% of 72% = 37.44% of the electorate in favour of Brexit.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by marcosscriven on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:40AM (#15568782)

I see I have been down voted.

As someone born in Barcelona, with dual Spanish/British nationality, all I can say with certainty is that I’m deeply saddened to lose not one, but possibly now two connections to my European neighbours.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by lllllll on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:06AM (#15569088)

Looking at the silver lining, you gain a new citizenship, being Barcelona born. :)

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by marcosscriven on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:11PM (#15570845)

Crazy. Even just expressing my own feelings on the matter is worthy of someone down voting. So very peculiar.

Someone doesn’t agree I am deeply saddened?!

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by dang on Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:03PM (#15576306)

These comments are breaking the site guidelines. Would you please read them and follow them when commenting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by marcosscriven on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:57PM (#15571702)

There’s one seriously pathetic lone down voter out there.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by megous on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:42AM (#15568808)

Politically active get to decide. I'm not sure why expect it to be otherwise.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by ben_w on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:47AM (#15568866)

Those who wanted to stay would (I suspect) also believe that the referendum was illegal, as per the court order saying so.

Why bother showing up to an illegal referendum, especially when the very fact of it being illegal means no result can be trusted as accurate?

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by CaptSpify on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:03PM (#15570773)

Because the referendum still took place means that some people don't care about it being illegal.

Politics affects you whether you find it "illegal" or not

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by ben_w on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:04PM (#15572216)

I am aware many don’t care that it was illegal, I was suggesting a reason why people might care.

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by marcosscriven on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:49AM (#15568890)

But people didn’t because it was not a vote recognised by their own country.

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