wrote on Sep 29^th, 2010 at 9:37am:

seems to me the spanish want a return to a third world economy with strikes and mass unemployment ....maybe they are of a view that they dont agree with cutting public spending in line with EC directives on austerity budgets and that it wont reduce the 20% unemployment figures? Perhaps they consider making a protest in the same way as the Irish, Belgians, French, Dutch, Portugese, Italians etc etc is the right way of getting their point of view noticed? Just my alternative skew on the situation.... here in the UK we will probably roll over and get another shafting without doing anything about it...after all we dont want any fuss.....

The Brits civil servants went on strike recently -  what did it achieve? Nothing.The British firemen went on strike to stop closures.What did it achieve? A big fat nothing! Are you saying all countries that strike are 3rd world countries? Dont see strikes in Ethiopi :-/a and Rwanda...