Hannah Jane Parkinson has a weekly column in The Guardian, entitled The Joy of Small Things, which she has turned into a lovely book. In his pages he praises the pleasure of canceling plans. His thesis is that we often say yes to things we don’t like, but to which we don’t know how to refuse. Sometimes it happens that shortly before the date we are too lazy to attend, because the weather is bad, you are tired or caught up in a series. Then you convince yourself that you are not feeling well, that you are not in a position to go out. The worst thing is that calling to say they won’t wait for us causes us anxiety, because it makes us feel guilty.
This is, more or less, what just happened to ERC when it abstained from voting on a popular legislative initiative (ILP), which hopes to obtain 50,000 signatures, for the Parliament to declare the independence of Catalonia. Subpoenaing the House for this matter is a dead-end plan for Republicans, especially when amnesty for another unilateral declaration of independence ( DUI ) is up for debate, which was a bad deal for the boosters, and also for the country. ERC has not even had to apologize to its promoters saying that it has a migraine.
More difficult to understand is that JxCat has supported the ILP to show the world that they are black-legged independenceists. They do have an appointment with the Central Government that has not been canceled to negotiate the Amnesty law and their vote in favor of the initiative collides head-on with the negotiation. I can imagine the face of Pedro Sánchez, who loses votes for his pockets with the defense of the grace measure, when he learns the position of the post-convergents.
The secretary of the ILP control commission has recalled that the request does not meet the conditions for it to be accepted, because it deals with powers not provided for in the Statute. But JxCat goes on her own, with the risk of something happening to her that Hannah Jane Parkinson considers to be the granting of a wish: being canceled for something you don’t expect. “It’s the equivalent of getting ready to leave a partner and finding that she leaves you right before.”
