Brexit should serve as a lesson how internal issues in a single party can swell into a global problem – Pedro Sanchez
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Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez said lessons needed to be learned from Brexit – not least how internal differences in a single political party can swell into “a global problem”.
Sánchez, has compared Brexit to the failed push for Catalan independence, warning that “engaging in campaigns or political projects based on lies eventually leads societies down a blind alley”.
POLITICO reports that in a In a joint interview with the Guardian, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and La Repubblica, Sánchez said: “The techniques of the Catalan independence movement are very similar to those of [Nigel] Farage and other ultra-conservative leaders who have defended Brexit.
“The techniques of the Catalan independence movement are very similar to those of [Nigel] Farage and other ultra-conservative leaders who have defended Brexit,” he said.
“They say, ‘Europe’s stealing from us!’, or ‘Spain is stealing from us!’, or, ‘If we had more economic resources …’. At the end of the day, I think that engaging in campaigns or political projects based on lies eventually leads societies down a blind alley and that’s really hard to manage.”
