With Spain's housing bubble burst and the economy contracting, Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party swept to power in a landslide general election win in November 2011.

BBC: Spain revises down its economic forecast

According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).

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Imagine what the old Labour party would have said had a Tory government proposed contracting a third of NHS operations to private firms. but this evening I want to analyse the second revolution in more detail.

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