instead of doing a good administration for Catalonia, Those politicians who claim only for independence are very irresponsible because they are transmitting hate to the people and they are expending a lot of money for this kind of propaganda to brain wash everybody's mind. Catalonia's independence is the most stupid idea and also impossible in the Europe of these days. OK, that's one way of seeing it. Another way of seeing it is that the proposed central policy of Mas's government, the Fiscal Pact to guarantee some more equitable share of the revenue income, was shot down by the befuddled Rajoy without so much as a mini-consultation about its workability. While at the same time popular pressure for self-determination had grown to such a point that any political force that ignored it would be sidelined permanently -- as the PSC is about to find out in next month's elections. Between June and September this year the popular clamour for independence-sovereignty-devolution had grown into the "elephant in the room" -- an issue much too large to ignore within Catalonia. From Sept 11 onwards, others in Spain and around the world began to understand that too. No doubt the more cynical interpretation has some truth in it. But when we've finished dismissing Mas and CiU as corrupt maladministrators who are clinging desperately to a policy of brinksmanship, the elephant is still there. If Mas doesn't achieve something like devolution for Catalonia in the medium term, the Catalan public won't just shrug their