Hannah Jane Parkinson has a weekly column in The Guardian, called The Joy of Small Things, which she has turned into a delightful book. In her pages she praises the pleasure of canceling plans. Her thesis is that we often say yes to things we don't want, but to which we don't know how to say no. Sometimes it happens that shortly before the appointment we feel extremely lazy to attend, because the weather is bad, you are tired or hooked on a series. Then you convince yourself that you are not well, that you are not in a position to go out. The bad thing is that calling to tell them not to wait for us causes us anxiety, because it makes us feel guilty.
This is, more or less, what has just happened to ERC when it abstained from voting on a popular legislative initiative (ILP), which hopes to obtain 50,000 signatures, for the Parliament to declare the independence of Catalonia. Meeting in the House for such an issue is a canceled plan for the Republicans, especially when the amnesty for another unilateral declaration of independence (DUI) is being debated, which was a bad deal for the promoters, but also for the country. ERC has not even had to excuse itself to its promoters by saying that it has a migraine.
More difficult to understand is that JxCat has given its support to the ILP to show the world that they are black-legged independentists. They do have an uncancelled appointment with the Government to negotiate the Amnesty law and their vote in favor of the initiative clashes head-on with the negotiation. I imagine the face of Pedro Sánchez, who is losing votes through his pockets with his defense of the grace measure, upon knowing the position of the post-convergents.
The secretary of the ILP control commission has recalled that the petition does not meet the conditions to be accepted, because it deals with powers not provided for in the Statute. But JxCat goes about his business, with the risk of something happening to him that Hannah Jane Parkinson considers to be the granting of a wish: having something you don't expect canceled. “It's the equivalent of preparing to leave a partner and finding that they leave you right before.”
