Posted: Oct 23, 2017 9:04 pm
ronmcd wrote:
With no clear route to a legal referendum (although they dispute that it was illegal), what holding the referendum has achieved is brought the issue out to a wider, EU, global audience. Hence we are discussing it, and the legal and perhaps moral entitlement to a referendum or other potential route to independence.
It clearly hasn't decided the independence question, but it would have been a question ignored by Madrid and the wider world if it hadn't happened.
Something else it has done is tip Madrid's hand, revealing how harsh and unwilling to uphold Catalan interests they are. This surely has aided the cause of independence and done Spain no good at all.