SPAIN ACCUSES GIBRALTAR OF BUILDING ON STOLEN LAND
To hell with what those falklanders want!
Spain has several separatist movements who would just love to get some moral and legal support from other countries. Spain had better watch out what it might start.
In a more civilized time, the UK would have just started shelling the Spanish coast. "It's ours. We're not giving up our sovereignty. You need to shut up."
The thing that's weird is Gibralter depends on Spain for garbage removal and electricity....they'd really have trouble being truly independent on that rock.
Weird day. Nasty apes. Great view from the top of the rock.
I strongly recommend that Spain put together a great naval Spanish Armada and sail it toward Endland to bring Great Britain to its knees.
I’m sure that would work out well.
This is a stupid move on the part of Spain. Their economy is in the tank and they really need all of the help that they could possibly get. They really can’t afford to poke Great Britain in the eye and yet they are doing it. Dumb.
Pirates were operating on the south island from a place called Puerto Solodad capturing or harrassing Clipper ships going around the cape heading toward and from California. It wasn’t the Brits that drove the pirates out of Puerto Soledad handed their butts over to The Viceroy of Argentina, and burned down the town leaving the place vacant.
That’s a piece of history buried in PC even during the Falklands war you never heard about.
Good luck with that.
Britain and the US will never allow it.
Spain and GB both are members of NATO and the Gibraltar-GB relatioship poses NO national secuirty threat to Spain, whatsoever.
Though Spanish settlers on Gibraltar sank to nearly nil immediately after Britsh & Dutch naval forces took possession of the rock in 1703, Britain, unlike Spain, declared Gibraltar a free port and kept it that way and immigrants from the region, including from Spain, and from Britain continued, to where
today Gibraltarians of Spanish descent make up about 27% of the local population and Gibraltarians of British descent about 24%, with the rest from many countries in the region
and beyond, and
in many referendums majorities of Gibraltarians have repeatedly voted that they DO NOT want their relationship with Britain changed.
Spain is not acting in the interests of the people of Spain, or the people of Gibraltar, or even the people of
Gibraltar of Spanish descent.
It as acting for one reason alone - wounded historical pride.
Like Obama, the Spanish government must need a popular diversion from its real problems and scandals.
There have been two elections, and both times it would just about redefine the word landslide:
Vote in 1967: 12,138 votes to 44, NO WAY!
Vote in 2002: 17,900 votes to 187, NO WAY!
Spain and Argentina; now there’s a pair of global powerhouses!
Hispano-Racism extends to Spain...also
Whether its Illegal Alien Amnesty on America....or seizing Anglophonic colonies against the will of the citizens....Hispano-Racism is a big problem
Cameron is such a whimp he’ll probably hand them over,
Go UKIP!
Color me crazy, but this statement could be construed as a prelude to war.
Territorial ambitions have started more wars than I can name or count.
Let's be honest. Many diplomats just plain suck. Probably a missed translation...
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If they’re looking for a compromise, I’d be willing to take over as benevolent dictator, if the pay was adequate.
You have to wonder whether Spain REALLY want Gibraltar because the ‘issue’ of Gibraltar is far more important to a struggling government than the territory itself would be.
If they wanted Gibraltar so badly they would have spent time attempting to woo the populace - treating them with kid gloves, offering incentives for them to ultimately be open to Spanish sovereignty, love bombing them - not treating them like this.
The Spanish government is in a mess right now. Scandals have hit their king, and Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, seems powerless as unemployment continues to rise on an extraordinary scale. Gibraltar, like the Falklands for the ghastly Kirchner, must be a wonderful respite from domestic woes.
The impotent hypocritical rage of Rajoy and Kirchner would be amusing to watch if it didn’t cause such inconvenience and concern to the citizens of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. The pair will make an interesting team. Let them embrace each other. By your friends ye shall be known. The British are alongside the Americans in Afghanistan. I’m sure the Spanish and Argentine governments will delight in anti-British rhetoric, but it will not help the hard-pressed citizens of either nation.