Brexit: Gibraltar angered by Spain's EU 'veto'

Gibraltarians, who number about 30,000, rejected by 99% to 1% the idea of the UK sharing sovereignty with Spain, in a vote in 2002.


were you the 1% moon? :D
 
tsuke said:
Gibraltarians, who number about 30,000, rejected by 99% to 1% the idea of the UK sharing sovereignty with Spain, in a vote in 2002.


were you the 1% moon? :D
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Sure- the illegal occupiers of Palestine would vote in similar fashion- but they are still illegal occupiers and will- eventually- be packing their grips.
 
The EU has put the future of Gibraltar at stake in the coming Brexit negotiations, in effect backing Spain in its centuries-old dispute with the UK over the British overseas territory.

After lobbying from Spanish diplomats, the EU’s opening negotiating position for the Brexit talks presents the British government with the choice of reaching agreement with the Spaniards about Gibraltar’s future or exposing its citizens to economic peril by pushing “the rock” outside any EU-UK trade deal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/31/future-of-gibraltar-at-stake-in-brexit-negotiations
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Well bowled, EU ! Boris Johnson's bails up in the air first ball !

Can Spain get the scorpion off its back after three hundred years of occupation ? Let's hope so. Better yet, let's support the Spaniards against English imperialism.
 
moon2012 said:
Well bowled, EU ! Boris Johnson's bails up in the air first ball !

Can Spain get the scorpion off its back after three hundred years of occupation ? Let's hope so. Better yet, let's support the Spaniards against English imperialism.
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Our EU contributions, the second largest afte Germany, helped build Spain's infrastructure. If they try to play rough then see how long it is before Brits stop going there for holidays. They already have nearly 50% youth unemployment as it is, they'd be totally fucked in double quick time.

Keep on doing the five finger shuffle sonny, be sure to be pointing towards Hamas HQ when you do so.

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The EU's attitude is the first sign of the obvious - that if you're a member of the club, you can influence it. When Spain joined, the UK, as a member, saw to it that the issue of Gibraltar was not raised, and now it is the opposite way around. It is very like Northern Ireland, Hong Kong or the Falklands. You have two problems - the legal rights and then the attitude of the existing population (and how much it would cost to compensate). That is why the current deal on the Six Counties is the only workable one just now, whereas we could hugely have compensated the inhabitants of the Falklands at far less cost that the war with Argentina, and avoided Thatcher and all the dire consequences thereof.
 
iolo said:
The EU's attitude is the first sign of the obvious - that if you're a member of the club, you can influence it. When Spain joined, the UK, as a member, saw to it that the issue of Gibraltar was not raised, and now it is the opposite way around. It is very like Northern Ireland, Hong Kong or the Falklands. You have two problems - the legal rights and then the attitude of the existing population (and how much it would cost to compensate). That is why the current deal on the Six Counties is the only workable one just now, whereas we could hugely have compensated the inhabitants of the Falklands at far less cost that the war with Argentina, and avoided Thatcher and all the dire consequences thereof.
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Yeh that's right we could have just given in to a fascist bastard like Galtieri, screw you boyo. I have a number of friends who were on active service there and lost comrades.

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The status of Gibraltar is determined by the Treaty of Utrecht and became British in perpetuity. The Spanish might want to think twice about laying claim to the Rock as the Catalans would surely consider that to be creating a precedent in their fight to become independent!!

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Britain ended the uneasy truce created by the Treaty of Amiens when it declared war on France in May 1803.
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Anybody got a list of other treaties broken by England/Great Britain/UK ? Let's ask the Spanish. Stones. Glass -houses. Tch, tch.
 
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