Reporting Spain: "I'd whip her till she bled," says the Guardian's chum

Pablo Iglesias is the leader of a Spanish far-left political party called Podemos. He has just done a deal with Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to form a coalition government with himself as deputy PM.

Sam Jones for the Guardian welcomes this:

Spain’s ruling socialist party has reached a preliminary coalition deal with the anti-austerity Unidas Podemos to try to form a government after the country’s second inconclusive election in seven months.

And why not? The other day the Guardian, being British, had no hesitation in giving Dago Johnnie his orders about what future political arrangements he must ensure in Spain (progressive parties must unite) and Heaven’s command has been dutifully obeyed. Podemos’s "progressive" credentials are present in its very name – note the feminine form of Unidas (united). In a hagiography published when Iglesias first came to prominence, the Guardian quoted him: “I’m a normal person.”

Mariló Montero is a TV presenter and she has a different view from the Guardian of what is a normal person. In 2016 she managed to upset Señor Normal. His response was simple: “I’d whip her till she bled … [I’m] a perverted Marxist turned psychopath.”

She referred him to the Spanish Institute for Women. The Institute, not surprisingly, gave her its backing saying that the comment was "totally inadmissible as sexist, and because it incites violence." Iglesias said that he “was sorry”, thereby removing any suspicion that the affair might have been the result of hacking or a montage.

"I don't like children or the family, or walking in the park, or dressing well, or old women stopping me or bloody Francoists telling me to fuck off, and with majority politics it's the same for me as with majority sex ... it doesn't give me a hard-on ..." says the GuardiPodemos's Señor Normal.

Q. Does Sam Jones of the Guardian know this story?

A. You can bet your boots he does. It was all over the media at the time and he’s paid to read the Spanish media.

Q. Did he warn Guardian Central that their Señor Normal was a self-described perverted psychopath who fantasised about whipping defenceless women, whose willy was left flaccid by the thought of majority politics?

A. He’s paid to do that sort of thing too.

Q. Does Guardian Central give a flying fuck about this?

A. Of course not. It thinks that it controls the information that gets published about Spain in English, so if its hero turns out to be a self-confessed psychopathic street-fighter with misogynistic tendencies, it just has to keep quiet and say nothing and nobody will ever know. Just what happened with its backing for Arnaldo Otegi.

Well hard luck, Guardian. You’ve been rumbled!

Pablo the feminist displays his credentials

Other gems from the Guardian’s “anti-austerity” hero Pablo Iglesias:

The Spanish Constitution: “That scrap of paper from 1978”. As Deputy Prime Minister he will be required to swear loyalty to it. Hmmm. We can imagine what that oath will be worth.

“Venezuela is a model to follow.”

And inevitably, he supports Arnaldo Otegi, calling the ETA terrorist a “peacemaker”. Otegi is of course the GuETArdian’s best friend whom we discussed here.

Well now the GuardiPodemos editor Katharine Viner has a new best friend, a perverted Marxist psychopath who fantasises about using extreme violence against women. Isn’t she the lucky one!