El Publico

'La amnistia inevitable' is the title of an excellent report on Monday's rally and the campaign in El Publico, Spain's third largest newspaper.

If you read Spanish, you'll quickly realise Lourdes Gomez's article is one of the best yet published on SiC -- which is portrayed here as being inspired by the Spanish regularisation process of 2005.

Lourdes has done us an additional favour by including some statistics which have been eluding us. We know that the Spanish regularisation brought in far more revenue than it cost to implement, but we haven't had the figures. Here they are.

The regularisation process cost 12.7 m euros. The year they did it, 2005, the additional income in social security payments and income tax amounted to 190 m euros.

Bit hard to square with the idea that the UK can't afford to regularise, Sir Andrew. On those figures, it can't afford not to.

Excellent quotes, btw, by our very own Laura Zorrilla (pictured here speaking at the Rally), who was managing the media on the day.