07 Jun 2014 2:56 PM:

The question was, "Does Spain need a Royal Family", but the thread has been highjacked by anti UK royalists .

I served Queen and country for 25 years, I really cannot imagine serving President and country. They are here today and gone tomorrow. Consider Putin for a minute or any of the South American despots. As for emphasising the difference between the haves and have nots, has an unemployed 50 year old or someone on average salary ever made president or even prime minister for that matter, money talks!!

As for the so called gaffs by the DoE, yes, I don't mind saying who we are talking about, as an ex-serviceman his sense of humour, like mine, comes from a more honest and even dark angle, used to get you through the tough times, because of this he is generally mis-understood and of course the press have a field day as it fills pages with their usual rubbish, all taken out of context. Even the prime minister and presidents fall foul of this type of treatment.

These days prime ministers and presidents send men and women to war for their own grandisment and egos, disguised as saving the democratic world from terror and dictatorship.

Royality, until it can replaced with something better, is a stabilising and continous influence, far better to serve than a here today gone tomorrow fly-by-night and it may even stop the "federalist" creating a dictorial president.

 

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19 Jan 2013 1:01 PM:

Hi Everyone,

My wife and I live on Lanzarote having moved from the main land because we couldn't stand the cold winters.

We have been retired 5 years and during this time we have had several bank accounts.

We started with Unicaja and couldn't fault them, having started with an international account in Nerja before moving out and then a current account in Mojacar.

Always helpful even to the extent of doing your tax returns for a very reasonable cost. Unfortunately they do not operate here on Lanzarote so we started with Cam, but the local branch closed down and it was too far to the nearest one.

Banca March are the most solvent of all Spanish banks and had a London branch which made life easy when transferring sterling, then that was closed and we had to keep 1500 euros in the local branch every month to obtain free banking, in our mind dead money, couldn't be touched.

Now we are with Sabadell who, incidentely, have absorbed Cam. Very helpful, excellant English speaking even though we try to do a bit of Spanish, minimum transfer to get free banking, 700 euros every month and can go down to 150 euros in account before charges are incurred.

Excellant on line banking, multi-lingual and have just released an App for iPad etc, however, that is still in Spanish, early days.

They are amongst the top ten for solvency and we would highly recommend them.

David & Margaret

 

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