Reporting Spain: British Green MEP supports Catalan supremacy

Gina Dowding is a former NHS health promotion worker, a former Green member of Lancaster City and Lancashire County Councils. Now she is a Green MEP for North-West England.

Fracking (a procedure for extracting oil without mining) is a controversial issue in Lancashire and the north-west, and in 2017 she was found guilty of blocking a road in an environmentalist anti-fracking protest. Whatever may be the depth of her knowledge of geology and the petroleum industry, and I can make no comment on that, she has apparently discovered a hitherto unannounced knowledge of European affairs and boasts of her association with Europe’s nationalists.

“It’s incredibly exciting because the Greens are now the fourth largest group in the European Parliament, and part of the Progressive Regionalists, which includes the SNP [Scottish nationalists] and Plaid Cymru [Welsh nationalists], also the Catalonians, and a small party from Lithuania.”

The people that she quaintly refers to as “the Catalonians” are in fact ERC, the coup-mongering racial supremacists, with roots in 1930s fascism that I have mentioned here before (though I have not yet dealt with the party’s penchant for paedophilia). A couple of their political stars:

Heribert Barrera “I do not claim that a country should have a pure race but there is a genetic distribution in the Catalan population that is statistically different from that of the sub-Saharan population for example.”

Oriol Junqueras “There are three states – only three! – where it has proved impossible to group all the population in a single genetic group. In Italy; in Germany, following the old linguistic border between maritime and continental Germany; and in the Spanish state*, between Spaniards and Catalans … In particular, the Catalans are genetically closer to the French than to the Spaniards; closer to the Italians than the Portuguese, and a bit close to the Swiss. Whereas the Spaniards present greater closeness to the Portuguese than to the Catalans and very little with the French. Curious …”

*Catalan nationalists have a profound, neurotic horror of the word “Spain” and refuse to utter it. They always talk of “the Spanish state”.

Curious indeed, and “incredibly exciting” company for a Green who associates with people who advocate racial supremacy and ran a coup d’état in 2017 against a democratic, constitutional government, for which they will spend a long time in jail when they are inevitably found guilty of treason next month. A coup that their fervent followers have vowed to repeat.

“Populism is playing to people’s worst instincts - fear, anger and blame,” says Gina Dowding. Not that she can imagine her nice “Catalonian” friends ever doing such a thing of course.

The photos show the two Jordis standing on a captured police car, trashed by the mob that they have incited, and the car itself with the arms and ammunition stolen.

Sadly too, Dowding has fallen into the linguistic trap of Catalan nationalism. She speaks of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and a small party from Lithuania, but of “the Catalonians” as if there were no others. Of course there are, but supremacists recognise none but their own. For a start, there is Ciudadanos MEP Jordi Cañas and I daresay that there are others from other parties. Also, there is the Catalan socialist Josep Borrell, the new High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former President of the European Parliament. But for our Green Lady from Lancashire, only rebels, rabble-rousers and racists, the sort of people who manhandle schoolchildren in classrooms and spy on schoolchildren in playgrounds, count as “the Catalonians”.

When it comes down to it, and whatever yarns they may spin about internationalism, the Greens are localists and protectionists, which is why they are able to get on so well with the Catalan secessionists. As Dowding puts it, “I’m pro-EU but I don’t think we should have more and more integration, just more co-operation … The EU is a union of countries, not a country in itself.”

She is also apparently knowledgeable about the Middle East, international trade policy and immigration, as well as geology and Spanish politics, though her views on those matters are of no concern here.

Sources

(English)

This blog

Schoolgirl draws Spanish flag and teacher throws her out of the room literally

Spying on schoolchildren

An old-school Catalan racist

Lancaster Guardian

Lancaster MEP: There will be another EU referendum as Boris Johnson ‘won’t be that reckless’

(Spanish)

Libertad Digital

Oriol Junqueras: "Los catalanes tienen más proximidad genética con los franceses que con los españoles"

(Oriol Junqueras; “The Catalans are genetically closer to the French than to the Spaniards”)