Madrid is acting as foolishly as did George III.
Instead of accommodation, there is the mailed fist and refusal to compromise.
We know how this story ends — there will be conflict.
from France24
....”Albert Botran, a regional lawmaker for the far-left CUP party that backs Puigdemont and wants to split from Spain, vowed Friday to “make it difficult for the new, illegitimate government to get away with it.”
“The first action will be resistance,” he told Catalonia Radio.”