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OPINION & COMMENT www.euroweeklynews.com 27 June - 3 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2019</strong> 27<br />
YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE - YOUR OPINION<br />
Letters should be emailed to oursay@euroweeklynews.com<br />
or make your comments on our website:<br />
www.euroweeklynews.com<br />
What a cunning plan<br />
DEAR Editor,<br />
Every year, without fail the French<br />
go on strike, they have demonstrations<br />
and generally disrupt people’s plans,<br />
particularly during the all too brief<br />
tourist season. It is, it seems, more of a<br />
hobby for them rather than any number<br />
of legitimate industrial disputes.<br />
Air traffic controllers striking and<br />
fishing boats blockading the ports are<br />
two common protests and are two monotonously<br />
regular inconveniences.<br />
Then this year, we get the Gilets<br />
Jaunes, the series of protests against<br />
their government. Blockading Paris and<br />
the auto routes, disrupting travellers at<br />
whim. I read the newspapers and yet<br />
still do not understand what they are trying<br />
to achieve.<br />
Then, I had a thought - perhaps, just<br />
perhaps these strikers and blockaders<br />
are really employees of the Spanish<br />
Tourist Board, employed to get people<br />
to come to industrially, peaceful Spain.<br />
What a cunning plan.<br />
The French are really revolting.<br />
Viva la Revolution.<br />
Stan Reynolds<br />
Respect Spain<br />
DEAR Leapy Lee.<br />
Enjoyed your article last week very<br />
much (<strong>Issue</strong> 1772, June 20).<br />
I was told the same as you, you are<br />
an immigrant so why are you against<br />
them. I quote again the same as you, I<br />
came in the front door… Respect Spain<br />
and pay my own way.<br />
Like so many of us.<br />
Keep writing, enjoy your columns.<br />
Regards.<br />
Christine<br />
Not in the picture<br />
TO the editor<br />
I saw the reports and the great pictures<br />
from your 20-year celebration and<br />
firstly as a regular reader for these past<br />
seven years, can I wish you every success<br />
for the next 20.<br />
I was jealous to see the party, it did<br />
look like fun and I would have loved to<br />
be there, but, there was one thing missing,<br />
Where was Leapy Lee?<br />
I did not see a single photo of the<br />
man in any of the pictures and trust me,<br />
with the help of my wife’s magnifying<br />
glass - I looked. I even looked at your<br />
internet site, but could not see him, I<br />
cannot believe he was not there. He’s<br />
not camera shy, is he?<br />
Oh, and a second question, did you<br />
play his song ‘Little arrows’? I have to<br />
believe that you did, it would be a great<br />
homage to our own one hit wonder.<br />
M Parker<br />
DEAR Sirs,<br />
The debate between<br />
prospective leaders of<br />
the Conservative party<br />
brought to light several<br />
things. Firstly, if<br />
they were not happy<br />
with their stools, why<br />
didn’t they say so and<br />
threaten to walk. No<br />
cojones!<br />
If they were being<br />
continually interrupted<br />
by Ms Maitlis, why<br />
didn’t they say so and<br />
threaten to walk. No<br />
cojones!<br />
It seems that if a future<br />
prime minister is<br />
going to be elected<br />
with no cojones, what<br />
chance is there for<br />
them on the world<br />
HAVE YOUR SAY<br />
No cojones<br />
stage?<br />
Margaret Thatcher<br />
had more cojones than<br />
Justice at last! Poor lass has suffered so much for<br />
all this time. I hope she can now heal and try to<br />
put this nightmare behind her.<br />
Edwina T<br />
Benidorm landmark El Castell<br />
closes for the summer season<br />
I think it is nice that the owners have allowed the<br />
excavation. Although it means removing one spot<br />
temporarily, preserving the heritage is important.<br />
Erik R<br />
San Juan festival left beaches<br />
full of garbage<br />
Yes there should be bins, but that is no excuse,<br />
any of them!<br />
Yours truly<br />
R Spenceley<br />
All letters by email or post should carry the writer’s address, NIE and<br />
contact number though only the name and town will be published.<br />
COMMENTS FROM<br />
EWN ONLINE<br />
take your rubbish with you simple as that, don’t<br />
leave for someone else to clear your mess up, no<br />
respect.<br />
Irene G<br />
Stay safe as temperatures soar<br />
to ‘potentially dangerous’ levels<br />
across Spain<br />
If you see a dog in a car and windows closed, police<br />
say take photo then break the window.<br />
David M<br />
EWN<br />
OUR VIEW<br />
Justice is done<br />
JUSTICE has been done. The La Manada ‘Wolf Pack’ gang<br />
has been convicted of rape.<br />
Finally, the <strong>18</strong>-year-old victim of a horrific gang rape at the<br />
Pamplona bull running festival of San Fermin can move on<br />
with her life, three years after the event.<br />
Her quest for justice should never have come to this. While<br />
the police are faultless - they acted immediately in tracking<br />
down the perpetrators of the horrendous crime - the rest of the<br />
justice system is not.<br />
When the five men who took advantage of the young<br />
woman were cleared of rape and convicted instead on the lesser<br />
charge of sexual assault, there was understandable outrage<br />
in the country.<br />
No one could understand how the men - who not only assaulted<br />
the victim at least 10 times in the most depraved ways<br />
but also posted a video of the assault to a WhatsApp group<br />
called La Manada - were not guilty of rape.<br />
It came down to the interpretation of the law made by a<br />
lower court. It decided that according to the letter of the law<br />
for an assault to be considered rape then it has to be accompanied<br />
by either violence or the threat of violence - for example<br />
showing a knife.<br />
Ridiculously, the court seemed to imply that because a lone<br />
woman did not fight back against five grown men, then it was<br />
not rape.<br />
Fortunately, the Supreme Court decided otherwise. Let us<br />
hope this sets a precedent that other judges follow in future.<br />
Now we want to hear your views.<br />
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Wolf Pack guilty of rape says Supreme Court<br />
EWN online this week<br />
POLL OF THE WEEK<br />
Irish man dies in Costa del Sol<br />
pub stabbing<br />
Always walk away from any sign of trouble SAY<br />
nothing just walk away. You never know who you<br />
are dealing with as was the case here... RIP<br />
Maurizio D<br />
Four Brits stabbed in Magaluf<br />
Street brawl after phones and<br />
wallets are ‘stolen’<br />
This ‘stabbing thingy’ is just getting worse. Knife<br />
crimes have become the norm now… carrying a<br />
knife should be a jailable offence.<br />
Pat W<br />
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*For week 14 - 20 June <strong>2019</strong><br />
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