ORDER!! ORDER!!!

It's difficult to get a word in edgeways in Spain. If you don't talk over other people, shout or heckle you will find yourself engulfed, powerless and desperate for everyone to just shut the f*ck up and listen to you. If you manage to browbeat everyone you know you have integrated. Small children are the arch manipulators of controlling the conversation and at the slightest provocation will start banging the table with their fists and a list of demands. 'What do we want? Water/sweets/ go home/dance/lie down/pour said water onto the floor...when do we want it? NOW!!!' The community meeting can descend into uproar with everyone clamouring for attention. So where to go to get heard? Well, the Congress of Deputies perhaps? The President of the Congress, Ana Pastor, a politician I wouldn't like to cross swords with asked the deputies if it wasn't too much too ask but could they be quiet, and respect the person speaking. She added that the Congress was not the British Parliament which when you think about it resembles more and more a class full of five year olds.