Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain

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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