The funniest spat ever is taking place between Spain’s two Leftist parties, the old and self-important Socialist Party and the new and iconoclastic Podemos. Both parties are claiming that Jeremy Corbyn is closer to them and not to their Leftist opponent.
In my own very modest opinion, Spain’s political parties would be better off if they stopped looking for some English-speakers to imitate and suck up to. Irrespective of the virtues of Corbyn (or lack thereof), it is kind of pathetic that two political parties in another country would start bickering over who looks more like him two seconds after he got elected to the leadership of the Labour Party.
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“Spain’s political parties would be better off if they stopped looking for some English-speakers to imitate”
I agree. This is one of the many downsides of English crowding out other languages in the international arena: Everything that English speakers do gets taken as the primary or only model to follow.
I once knew a Swedish woman who was part of delegation from Sweden to observe the effects of then recent reforms in the British school system. Officially the British teachers were vaguely positive about the reforms but off the record they all loathed it (all the ones she spoke to one on one hated it).
“Whatever you do, don’t follow us on this” said one. After the trip the government announced plans to emulate the British model.
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