Wearing a Spanish flag on their shirt specifically for today when Spanish police are beating the shit out of Catalonians and throwing them down flights of stairs is provocation. Why do they need to wear the flag? Is there a vote happening in the rest of Spain where they get to decide if Catalonia stays or leaves?
you would assume it was a decision they knew they would make, knowing the illegal referendum was due to happen today. If catalunya has every right to free speech and democracy and they can fly the catalan flag then shouldnt everyone else be entitled to say that actually, its our country and our problem too and we would prefer to be united?
No, there is no vote for the rest of spain but that is exactly the point. Catalunya has no legal basis for this referendum, and if they were to leave then potentially they could be leaving a lot of spain in the lurch. Yes, it could be argued that they "deserve" more back out of the pot but thats not how society works or how it should work, outside of thatcherite every man for himself attitudes. Its like germany saying "we're better off than the rest of you, bye bye EU".
Many parts of spain feel let down by Barcelona, a region that has had many concessions made towards it and is about as autonomous as it can get already. A lot of people want their country to be unified rather than more divided and if barca can argue one side then of course las palmas should be able to as well.
