Spanish Humour saving the President of Madrid

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There was lots of furore last week over the autobiography of the Presidenta de Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre (you know, my mate Espe, who wants to let everyone start smoking in Madrid again). Despite being from a very rich family, marrying a very rich husband, and earning 100 grand a year, the poor thing has trouble making ends meet. She writes:

“The worst thing is the electricity bill. I’ve got very high ceilings and the heating is electric, what a nightmare! … It’s not as if I’m counting my pennies at the end of every month; sometimes I’ve completely run out of money by then.”

Apparently she has even been forced to buy her clothes at Zara, like, well, her normal middle-class subjects. Anyway, all is well, as the internet is once again to the rescue. 1 Euro para Espe is (nearly) ready to take your donations.

Written by Ben Curtis

November 28th, 2006 at 4:10 pm

Posted in Spanish Culture and News

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10 Responses to “Spanish Humour saving the President of Madrid”

  1. Tali

    28 Nov 06 at 4:22 pm

    indeed, the silver spoon has been positively ripped from her mouth. Poor thing, she must really feel the cold with those high ceilings. Count me in for a fi….oh no, dammit, its end of the month.

  2. Graeme

    28 Nov 06 at 4:40 pm

    Don’t worry Tali, the fund is going to be open until April next year, so you’ve got time. When I checked Periodismo Incendiario this morning it said they had the bank account set up, and payment by SMS message had also been enabled.

  3. Tali

    28 Nov 06 at 5:59 pm

    Wonderful! I’ll make it a Christmas donation…goodwill to all men and all that. Am sure I’ll get that nice gooey feeling for having donated to a worthy cause ;) Anyone fancy betting on how much gets raised?

  4. Ben

    28 Nov 06 at 7:43 pm

    Thanks Graeme for originally putting me onto this last week. Here is the peice on Periodismo Incendiario, very funny:

    http://periodismoincendiario.blogspot.com/2006/11/ya-puedes-ayudar-espe-enva-un-sms-o.html

    Her press department must be going up the wall.

  5. Tali

    28 Nov 06 at 10:17 pm

    Just visited http://www.globalrichlist.com to check my facts, and Espe is the 29,273,979th richest person in the world. That puts her in the TOP 0.48% richest people in the world.

    That people in a position of power and wealth have the audacity to write this kind of stuff AND earn royalties off the back of the book it is written in, makes me truly ill.

    But on a more tongue in cheek note, you can visit the http://www.1europaraespe.com site soon and click on to Comunidad and those of us who also don’t reach end of the month can make her some suggestions on how to “make do”.

  6. ValenciaSon

    29 Nov 06 at 1:45 am

    I wonder if she’s done any sinpas

  8. Ben

    29 Nov 06 at 2:55 pm

    … and she apologises here:
    http://tinyurl.com/y29gtf

  9. Eline

    29 Nov 06 at 3:09 pm

    I don`t really understand why you all get so work up about this, sorry. What she writes is funny, endeed. But what does it have to do with globalisation and people of her position should not say things like that? If she has ideas like that, one should think that it is better that peolpe know it, because of the position she has, and might get in the future.

    I bet she is right though, the more money you have, the more you spend.

  10. Ben

    29 Nov 06 at 6:47 pm

    There is no doubt that the more you have the more you spend, but it is always going to gall people with very little money to see someone with so much complain I suppose…

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