There is certainly a great deal of governmental bravery at present. We know this because the government keeps telling us there is. Vice-president and spokesperson Antoni Costa, for example, can't make a public statement without littering his announcements with allusions to brave measures.
The extraordinary thing about this bravery discourse isn't that he keeps repeating himself but that he and others only stumbled across the path to the brave new world around four weeks ago. Or should one say the road? That which was congested and forming a blockade of Soller . "Maximum possible consensus" for the brave measures.
This was the Costa wish in informing us of the roundtable to seek a social and political pact for the sustainability of the tourism model . Well, he can wish this, as achieving it will be quite a different thing. Inviting 'social agents' to sit around the roundtable is to be welcomed, but some of these agents are subversive sorts; Huxleyan savages such as Extinction Rebellion chaining themselves to a Ryanair Airbus.
Even so, environmentalists GOB were among the social agents asked along for a chat, the invite more or less having coincided with a gathering in Sineu at which GOB and others came up with protest ideas, such as "collapsing" Palma Son Sant Joan Airport (whatever this means). In consensual as well as brave fashion, Costa voiced "respect" for GOB's proposals ahead of the roundtable. Which clearly didn't mean he agreed with them but was kind of conciliatory i.