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We don’t want English tourists
February 13, 2010 • Andalucia, Cadiz • 55 Comments
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• PERPLEXING: Jerez councillor Bermudez says he doesn't want English drinkers |
A JEREZ councillor has told English tourists to stay home.
In an astonishing rant tourism councillor Juan Manuel Garcia Bermudez blasted the English who do “nothing apart from drink all day long”.
Bermudes, 53, also raged that he was only interested in tourism that “enriched the area”.
“We certainly don’t want the English who come over on their cheap flights and do nothing apart from drink all day long.”
The PSOE politician’s bewildering outburst will come as a blow to Andalucia tourist chiefs who have identified English tourism as crucial in overcoming the downturn.
“We certainly don’t want the English who come over on their cheap flights and do nothing apart from drink all day long,” criticised Bermudez.
“I want to make it clear that we only want tourism that will enrich the area.”
Bermudez had earlier been speaking about the need to further support local tourism so that “this economic motor can create jobs by 2011”.
The PSOE politician’s English wish could be granted after it emerged that pay talks between air traffic controllers and the Spanish airport authority broke down.
The failure to reach an agreement before March 31 – when the current pay deal expires – could throw the travel plans of Britons heading to Spain into chaos.
Spain is still recovering from a 16 per cent drop in tourism last year.
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“EVERYTHING STOPS FOR TEA”.SO DO I NOW…..IT IS PLAIN TO SEE HOW THE PEOPLE THAT WRITE HERE ARE SAD, UNEDUCATED, ILL INFORMED NOBODY’S.YOU DON’T GET THE JOKE…LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND LAUGH AT YOURSELF …JUST THE ONCE..
Nick, give it a rest. The people on this site are much more successful and educated than you will ever be. We have a life, you need to get one (difficult as that may be lol).
You’re obviously pretty ill-informed yourself Nick, if you think the Falklands should more properly be called the “Mavenas”…
Peoples names some times attach them selves to events like the word Boycott after Captain Boycott. From now on I will always think of insane ranting posts as Schofields. So Nick you have made an impression but not the one perhaps you had in mind.
Schofield, do you live in a mental home. I did not read al of your drivel, gave up after a few lines.
Of all the comments, I liked the one about plastic chairs, that hit the nail on the head. They want culture with their plastic chairs and the yhave this useless don’t care attitude service.
A lot of the Spanish are arrogant, very racist and they have macho corrupt politicians. Carry on reaping what you sow. Spain is in a mess and the politicians are doing nothing to sort it out, they are only making it worse. Get rid of that Mr Bean Prime minister and get someone else in, they could not mess it up much more. I have some Spanish friends so there are about 5% that are OK.