Time for the Armada.
Is the problem that the powers that be just cannot seem to get a war started. What ever happened to the tried and true, just start shooting?
All of the crap seems to be foreplay for something much larger.
“What ever happened to the tried and true, just start shooting?”
Spain was thinking about it during WWII (they were neutral, but Britain wouldn’t be able to defend it); they decided not to when they realized they couldn’t defend the Canary Islands from Britain.
That is how newly-independent India took back the Portuguese colony there (around Goa); when negotiations failed they simply stormed it.
Britain has no legitimate claim to Gibraltar or Northern Ireland; while they cling to that those they are losing their own island to Asian and Caribbean types. Good riddance.