I am writing this letter to Coalición Canaria and the Partido Popular because since last year they have been in the government of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote and Arrecife and are representatives of the Canarian center-right that opposes the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and the thousands of acronyms into which the radical left is divided - they are always communists who, with their name changes, try to deceive the staff -.
This is my message: do not let the left take over the streets on the issue of tourism phobia. Take over the streets on the issue of housing because it is the real background to all current social unrest. Tourism phobia is nothing more than the invention that the left has pulled out of its sleeve to justify that access to housing has worsened, despite 6 years of government by Pedro Sánchez and his partners, as well as a housing law that not only does not work but has made everything worse.
Just as the “yes is yes law”, which left thousands of rapists on the street, was the fair electoral tomb of Podemos, the housing law, as well as all the measures that the PSOE and its partners have taken on this matter, should be their electoral tomb.
But in order for it to be their tomb and they do not return to power for a long time, both at a national, regional and local level, it is necessary to clearly demonstrate at a political level and with a lot of street presence, that the left has committed a serious historical error by not knowing how to correct the housing problem that affects all of Spain and with great particularity to our beloved islands.
Instead of abruptly increasing the real estate supply, all the Spanish government has done is put its foot on the small owners while extending the red carpet to squatters and rent squatters of all kinds. The best criticism I have ever heard about the left came from a left-wing militant, who I don't remember, who once said that the problem with the left is that they don't know how to read an economic newspaper. They live in the purest of economic homeopathy when it comes to reality.
On other occasions the left has been very successful, such as in the advancement of rights such as gay marriage, which the Spanish right hypocritically did not want to approve, but in the current case the left has committed a major error, which must be taken advantage of at all levels so that they do not return to power for a long time. Especially because their friends on the radical left would also be in power if they returned to power.
We have to take to the streets. Taking the measures that can be taken is fine. Managing better than the left is fine, but we also have to win the battle of ideas, the cultural battle and be masters of the piche.
Any observer of reality with a modicum of intelligence realizes immediately that the wild card of tourism phobia is nothing more than an attempt to blame our beloved tourists for housing, instead of recognizing that the left's housing measures over the last 6 years have been a complete disaster.
They want to win the street based on a gigantic sophism that serves as an argument for their most fervent radicals, who will never recognize any error in their management and thereby drag the center electorate, an electorate that is always hesitant.
And what does it mean to take to the streets? It means seeing the mayors demonstrate, it means that the mayors protest, yes, in a populist and rhetorical way, against those who have empty housing and that could be useful to fix the problem. Taking to the streets is calling a great day of demonstration against the Spanish government and its failed housing policies. Taking to the streets is protesting against Spanish and regional banking entities for not opening the hand of developer and real estate credit more.
In short, we have to take to the streets to highlight the historical error that the left has committed and that they do not try to cover it up with the story of tourism phobia, which is also profoundly counterproductive for our economy and well-being.
We have to take to the streets until it is absolutely evident that the fault lies with Pedro Sánchez and his partners, to such an extent that they cannot use any more arguments. I hope that my letter does not fall on deaf ears, because the great defect of the center right is that they have almost never known how to take to the streets.
P.S. I am not a member of either of these two parties.
