Posted on 05/04/2017 8:46:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Spain is planning to use its Brexit veto over Gibraltar to tell the Rock how to run its economy, leaked documents have revealed.
Madrid wants to end what it describes as the Rock’s “unjustified privileges”, according to reports of a leaked Spanish foreign ministry document.
Spanish officials said Gibraltar’s low-tax status effectively means it enjoys “unfair competition” and has vowed to crack down on the “tax haven”.
They will also demand a “new accord” over flights into Gibraltar’s international airport.
Fabian Picardo, Gibraltar’s chief minister, accused Spain of holding “neo-colonial ambitions” over the territory. …
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So much for the EU being a “peace project”.
The British really do need to tell the Kaiserine Merkel and her Spanish lackeys to go to he||
I know Spain is in rough shape - but this is extortion.
Spain has two enclaves in Morocco. But, that’s o.k. What’s not o.k. is another country having an enclave in Spain.
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“They will also demand a “new accord” over flights into Gibraltar’s international airport. “
The road to Gibralter intersects with the landing strip. You stop at a red light to let a plane land. I found that quite humorous.
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Veto my behind. Britain just needs to tell the EU: “We’re leaving. Either you can fight a war over it to keep us in, or you can accept it.”
This is how wars get started.....
I know Spain is in rough shape - but this is extortion.
It’s all a bluff. With a huge tourist industry dependent on GB, Spain has way more to lose in a political tit for tat.
Wonder if government officials in Spain ever heard of the Falkland Islands?
The U.K has no legal obligation to accept only the departure terms the EU wants. That agreement is not on the U.K. exiting the EU. That is a given. The agreement is on how things will be between the EU and the U.K. afterward. Spain’s maneuver will not forestall or prevent the Brexit. All it can do is try , in a form of political blackmail, to make things worse for the U.K., in its new relations with the EU, IF the EU insists on Spain’s demands over Gibralter.
I have news for Spain. The U.K. will just walk away, let the EU impose whatever conditions it wants on trade with or people from the U.K. and the U.K. will impose, or not, whatever terms it wants on trade with or persons from EU states. But there will be no “deal” about Gibralter.
Spains demand will end the talks between the U.K. and the EU. Once the EU states admit that to themselves, or forced to admit it when the U.K. walks away, they will pressure Spain to give up its demands. They would rather have some deal with the U.K. than no deal.
The Spaniels have nothing to say about the Rock.
I don’t understand why the UK should pay a nickle to leave the EU.
OK, OK...a pence, then.
What ever happened to pounds, shilings and pence ?
Pounds and pence (plural for “penny”) remained after decimalization, which redefined the pound as 100 pence rather than 240 pence. The “shilling” (or “bob”) became the five-pence coin (formerly worth 12 pence). Half crowns, farthings (¼-penny), three-pence and six-pence coins were retired, but new ½p and 2p coins came about; the florin became the 10p coin, and the heptagonal 50p coin replaced the 10-shilling paper money. (And pence were abbreviated as “p” rather than “d” for denarius.)
It’s funny until you’re in the landing plane and somebody runs the Red light. It happened to me and my crew once in a landing P-3. No harm done but it raises the picked factor.
LOL! Now that’s funny right there!
You can go to the Marks and Spencers in Gibraltar and buy a shirt, paying for it with English money but if you go to Marks and Spencers in London and try to buy a shirt with Gibraltar pounds they won’t accept it.
Been quite a while since England and Spain had a good donnybrook.
Wayyy past time for another.
How are they doing that? Gibraltar is British.
The British Navy is a shadow of what it was under Thatcher. In fact both the British and Spanish Navies have 77 vessels each. Though Britain has more destroyer size vessels and more submarines. And it has nukes. Never forget nukes.
“No harm done but it raises the picked factor.”
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Good lord,that must have been terrifying.
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