In defence of Gibraltar...
- 18 August 2013 07:10241039And their own extrernal ones Andrew - don't they still l have an enclave in North Africa - Spanish Morocco or something ?
Roger - Alec Sheldon
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18 August 2013 12:22241065Two in fact Roger. Ceuta and Melilla. - 18 August 2013 13:03241070And didn't they nick the Canary Islands?
- Brian Dixon
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18 August 2013 13:25241076nah haroald Wilson did,he spent more time down there than parliament. - 18 August 2013 18:54241106it was the scilly islands brian.
- 18 August 2013 19:18241108As the EU crumbles in the southern country's under mass unemployment
More nationalist feelings will come to the top of the political a gender
Diversionary politics will be the norm. - 18 August 2013 19:58241110already happening keith, the far right are gaining footholds in the most unlikely places mainly due to free movement of people and assorted other minor missives from the all powerful eu.
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19 August 2013 06:59241128scilly me.
- 20 August 2013 09:35241236EU to Flashman`s aid.............where would he be without them ?
Courtesy Independent.........
EU fact-finding mission sent to Gibraltar in bid to ease tensions
Monitor lizards hope to resolve row over border checks as Britain seeks to aid a 'quick resolution'
The European Union is to send a "fact- finding mission" to Gibraltar to investigate border checks
imposed on the Spanish side in an attempt to defuse the escalating diplomatic crisis between
Britain and Spain.
EU observers will move in to try and ease tensions between the two countries over extra checks
which have led to lengthy traffic delays. Britain says the checks break EU free movement rules,
but Spain says Gibraltar is not controlling smuggling adequately. - 22 August 2013 11:28241580"a Rock without a role."
[OK, I admit it, the above phrase tickled me, and I got it from the article linked-to below.]
While I am sure that the world would lose something, something more quaint than precious, if Gib were ever to be subsumed into Spain, it is surely more than it's quaintness that is being so stoutly defended.
I fear, if fear is the correct term, that the 'role' that is being defended here is it's status as Tax Haven.
Yes, it has always (an awfully long time anyway) been a little Sun-kissed part of Britain that shares many of the benefits that we mainlanders enjoy;the NHS for instance, but if it's tax status were to be changed could it survive?
And more telling, if it lost it's Tax Haven sheen, would any UK Government care?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/gibraltar-life-under-siegeIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 22 August 2013 12:08241587this will die down pretty quickly, the struggling government have been given a boost in their poll ratings which was the real reason the sabre rattling started.
anybody remember the falklands?