If it was already nonsense to

convert the old General Secretariat of Health and Consumption into a ministry

, even greater was to entrust its direction to someone with

the little training of Alberto Garzón

.

From his two years of inactivity, inefficiency and failures at the head of the Consumer portfolio, at least three conclusions can be drawn.

The first, its inability to manage, as seen in the case of

the regulation of the advertising of bookmakers

, a promise that has been unable

to comply.

Second, the futility of a ministry

without defined competences and with a meager budget allocation

, fruit of the pacts between Sánchez and Iglesias to grant training

dwelling

at least a third of all ministries.

Finally, that his ideological sectarianism disables him for the position.

Let's not forget

the contempt he showed for tourism

, one of our main sources of income, which he accused of being

a "low value added, seasonal and precarious sector"

, and which he blamed for the "structural weakness" of the productive system.

Yesterday, however, Garzón surpassed himself and his incompetent condition added that of frivolous.

And irresponsible.

Because the repeated attack that he launched throughout the morning, from different media, cannot be described in any other way,

against the Spanish livestock industry

, when qualifying the consumption of meat as dangerous for the health of the people and the survival of the "planet".

He did not care for the reasonable and reasoned criticisms of the livestock and meat sector of his populist campaign

#LessMeatMoreLife

, which in an open letter expressed its amazement and concern over the unjustified attack against companies that play "a social and economic role of the first magnitude in our country" and that

generate "in Spain more than 2.5 million jobs

and almost 9,000 million euros of exports to the trade balance ".

Nor did he care that the Minister of Agriculture,

Luis Planas

, deny him in public and read the primer for his "dogmatism" and for the damage that could be causing our country.

Or that the government spokeswoman,

Maria Jesus Montero

, come out in defense of the sector and that

Emiliano Garcia-Page

accused him of putting thousands of jobs at risk.

Not even that, from Lithuania, the President of the Government disavowed him by doing

a compliment to the ribeye

.

Amid rumors about possible changes in the Government, PSOE and UP are staging a confrontation that highlights

the fragile communion of interests

between both parties, allies only for the needs of mere political survival.

Garzón's attitude, between the provocation of his government partners and ideological radicalism, also reveals

that old fondness of the more dogmatic left for social engineering

, which tries to impose its vision of the world as if it were the only valid and morally superior one and pretends

shape the conscience of citizens

based on its principles, its habits and its customs.

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