Life in Culebrón

One nice thing about living in a small Spanish town is that it's pretty easy to be on nodding terms with most of the local councillors. ...

It's strange how the same thing has more or less value depending on your own thoughts and when you have them. I was listening to som...

You'll remember we had a general election in April and regional and municipal elections at the end of May. The trend was that the soci...

Just in case you're interested the socialists, the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), had a good election. They gained 38 seats...

I don't get a vote in the General Elections here in Spain. Nonetheless I popped out to the three polling stations in Pinoso to have a ...

Many years ago - strange how all my stories start like that - I was at a Conservative Club fundraiser in North Yorkshire. I have no defenc...

General election today in Spain. I'm sure you know. The fact that polling day is Sunday here and Thursday in the UK piqued my interest...

It must have been the 1964 general election. I walked on to the Town Hall Square in Elland to see Harold Macmillan speak. I would have bee...

I went to vote. I hunted through the thirty nine piles of candidate lists till I found the one I wanted, pushed it in the envelope, had fu...

Recently I have had a bit of a spate of sending Mr Angry letters - well emails - to various organisations in Spain. Generally they have be...

The best route home from Cartagena to Culebrón passes close by the town of Fortuna. Alongside the ring road the gaunt skeletons of hundred...

Regular readers (as if!) will remember that the Socialists, who currently control the National Government, got a drubbing in the recent lo...

Not the usual sort of entry. All over Spain the PSOE, the Labour Party equivalent, has been badly mauled. The political map of Spain has tur...

I'm not sure and I can't find the details on the Internet but I'm more or less certain that every polling station notice I'v...

The Socialist meeting today was held in the little park alongside the social centre in the Santa Catalina district of the town. The event st...

Tonight on my personal election trail it was the UCL - Unión Centro Liberal - a party local to Pinoso with no national affiliation. This gro...

The PSD website said that they would be in the social centre in Santa Catalina all day. I wanted a copy of their electoral programme so we...

I've always enjoyed election time - getting out to hear the candidates, even the ones I wouldn't expect to vote for. I still remembe...

It's election time in Spain. On 22 May we have the local and regional elections. The campaign period proper started as Thursday became F...