“We can place the birth of post-truth in that dystopia written by Orwell back in 84.” The slip of the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, about the English writer who died in 1950 and one of his most famous works, ‘1984’, has gone around the internet in recent days. Virality is lately one of the biggest enemies of the missteps of politicians. He took it with humor and chose to “enjoy the generous ingenuity of social networks.” But the truth is that errors or script failures, the Galician has given the newspaper library hilarious speeches.
Feijóo says that Orwell wrote ‘1984’ in the year 84… without knowing that it was published in 1949
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“To be in Catalonia you have to come to Catalonia”, from Catalonia; “those who contribute the most must have more aid and those of us who contribute the least do not have the right to have reduced VAT for the purchase of a car” because “there is still one more place left and even two”, at a conference on large families; or his attempt to “maintain respect for the ceramics and enamel of Castellón and Valencia”, so as not to respond to the jail request for Zaplana. Feijóo’s interventions in recent months are worthy of the zappings of one of his predecessors, Mariano Rajoy, also accustomed to getting involved with his speeches.
