Stuart Crawford says:

What can one say – Solbes (when you can understand his mumbling speech) in an interview with the FT about 9 months ago refuted entirely that Spain had ‘any real problems’.

The trade unionist who predicts ‘social revolution’ is right on the money.

Consider – 1.4 million empty properties/many Spaniards got mortgages when they should have been refused – Spain’s own sub prime and now the idiot Zapatero is promising mortgages for the unemployed, why, he does’nt have a clue what to do.

Simple really – the sole motor of the Spanish economy, construction is gone – what else is there – nothing.

The Spanish are hugely inefficient, they have far too many fiesta days. When I mentioned this to a bank manager who uses my favourite bar he laughed and said no “we want more”.

The Spanish really are incapable of changing their mentality – it is rigid, incapable of absorbing any ideas that do not originate in Spain and going to work in northern European countries is a non starter because they have no language skills (sound familiar to the English?)and anyway there is no work.

The Germans, Dutch and Brits are sick of propping up these corrupt brain dead countries of southern Europe. If Germany decides it has had enough the EEC will collapse as of course will the Euro.

How are they ever going to be able to pay back the billions and billions they have borrowed against completely overvalued properties.

The Spanish can never accept that they are in the wrong, are a xenophobic country of epic proportions – they will look for scapegoats.

I have said this before but it needs re-iterating – they will take it out on foreigners, on those who have treated them with contempt, refused to try and enter into friendships with the Spanish and indeed live deliberately in self-imposed ghettos – I am of course talking about so many of the Brits.

It is precisely this type of Brit that I and my partner refuse to have any contact with at all.

All my neighbours are Spanish and I enter freely into political/social issues every day. They know that I have warned them for years of the problems that have now ‘come on top’. Indeed they now come to me for ideas on how to deal with the horrendous financial situation they find themselves in.

Don’t under-estimate the potential for real social dis-order in this country and remember that there are 30,000 gun licences in Granada province alone.