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Now that the dust has settled and all the hot takes been aired, here's my tuppence worth on yesterday's Catalan election results, particularly the showing of the far right party Vox. Regular readers will know it's a subject I like. THREAD 
Vox won 11 seats, finishing fourth on 7.7%. It's disturbingly high but it's not Trump, Le Pen or Salvini high. It's also lower than what it won in Madrid's regional elections (8.9%) or Spain's last general elections (15.1%), both two years ago.
Unusually for a fascist party, Vox's leader in Catalonia isn't white. Ignacio Garriga's mother hailing from the former Spanish colony or Equatorial Guinea.
It's not because Vox isn't racist – it is, as well as being homophobic and misogynistic. But because above all it's 'anti-nationalist', which in Spain is code for being anti-Basque and anti-Catalan. Inevitably, Garriga is derided as an Uncle Tom figure. https://mobile.twitter.com/TirodeGraciah/status/1355179872738541568
In the rest is Spain, Vox likes to go to areas with tensions over migrants or minorities and stir the hornets' nest, like recently in the Canaries (with two black Spanish sports starts shown the video on a TV programme for their reaction). https://mobile.twitter.com/salvadostv/status/1358523680523882499
But in Catalonia, they've gone to nationalist heartlands to provoke a local backlash, a bit like the Orange Order has done up North, as the following videos show. https://mobile.twitter.com/CSBlenner/status/1358162802440081408
And here. This is done to goad, not to win votes in these towns but in places where Spanish national sentiment is strongest. https://mobile.twitter.com/CSBlenner/status/1358465799174778889
This is a tactic it copied from Cs, the right-wing Spanish nationalist party whose voters Vox yesterday seduced. For example, Cs would turn up at Pride parades with rainbow flags only to be jeered and expelled by the LGBT+ community. https://mobile.twitter.com/annagestio/status/1148590411579084802
Some commentators try and claim that Catalan nationalism is 'just as bad' as its Spanish rival but while Vox won 1 in 6 of the unionist vote, it's closest Catalan nationalist equivalent, FNC, won just 0.5% of the pro-indy vote. https://mobile.twitter.com/AlmagroSchool/status/1360310895356837902
In short, Vox's is a unionist vote because deep down, Spanish nationalism is more concerned with Spain's unity than immigrants from poorer countries, as renowned Catalonia-based journalist Rupert Cocke observed.https://mobile.twitter.com/RupertCocke/status/1361032645120032770
I elaborated on this in a thread 10 days ago. https://mobile.twitter.com/CSBlenner/status/1357473843145801729
And in between Calvo Sotelo and Abascal, another Calvo Sotelo, a nephew, who was Spain's PM in 81-82 said that encouraging the immigration of Spanish speakers to Catalonia was needed to maintain Spanish sentiment there. https://mobile.twitter.com/Beansof57/status/1360907917550116864
It should be added that traditional, less 'modern' Spanish fascism, while hostile to Basque and Catalan nationalism, is even further down the rabbit hole of neo-Nazism as we saw this weekend. https://mobile.twitter.com/CSBlenner/status/1361233430541910016
So the long and the short of it is that the results don't mean the far right is marching to power in Catalonia but that Spanish nationalism/unionism has shed all inhibitions and become much more radicalised in its opposition to Catalan calls for an independence referendum.
Finally, here's a map showing how Catalonia voted between pro-independence blocs and unionist ones per LEA. (The map in the opening tweet of the thread showed which right-wing unionist party won where.) ENDS.
