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Record 496 Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters, says the Foreign Office
The Sunday Telegraph reported a record number of Spanish incursions into Gibraltar waters last year, but its calculations in fact fell short of the final total, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. Read full article
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Jan 08th, 2014 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 00 effects.
Wow, poor poor Spain. How's that deflection working out for you now?
Talk like that will keep you in a 4 hour queue.
Jan 08th, 2014 - 01:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oooh beware the crushing might of the Spanish state.
Jan 08th, 2014 - 03:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0How ever will Gibraltar survive?
4 hour waits must have the 30,000 Gibraltans almost ready to roll over and throw away their high living standards, low corruption and unemployment and high growth rates and join Spain..... which has none of these.
4 hour queues? Haha as I said ZERO effect.
Incursions into your own country?
Jan 08th, 2014 - 04:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Send the navy Cameron!
Haha at Vestige, you're going have to do far better than that to even slightly worry anyone.
Jan 08th, 2014 - 07:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone is absolutely terrified of the imposing Spanish state, you know the one that always runs away when anyone fights back, is on its knees and needs European financial handouts just to survive.....
Haha Marcos
Jan 08th, 2014 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0At least the UK has a navy that it can send. One that works.
How's Argentina's? Perhaps Argentina could send the ARA Santísima Trinidad or the ARA Libertad!
Bahahahahahaha
Spain has achieved [ nothing ]
Jan 08th, 2014 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0and Spain will achieve [ nothing]
their childish stupidity makes them look like a third rate power..
@4 You are such a disappointment. One would hope that, after a reasonable period, even a pathetic moron could avoid patently fatuous comments. Seems you can't. Shall I waste time asking you to explain? No, because you couldn't if you tried. So here's the way it works. In 1713 Gibraltar was ceded to Britain IN PERPETUITY. If that's a problem for you it means FOREVER or UNTIL THE END OF TIME. So you should be able to comprehend that Gibraltar belongs to Britain. It is true that the oft-quoted Treaty of Utrecht doesn't mention territorial waters. It doesn't mention Gibraltar territorial waters AND it doesn't mention Spanish territorial waters. But there was no international agreement on territorial waters at the time. Now, you must have heard of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It's one of those bits of international law that argieland constantly breaches. The current one became effective in 1994. But there was an earlier one that became effective in 1964. And that was when, for the first time, there was international agreement on territorial waters. And all coastal territories got them. Until then, the general rule was the cannonshot rule. Three miles. So Gibraltar got territorial waters when Spain did!
Jan 08th, 2014 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0The ROYAL Navy arrives in Gibraltar regularly. At which time, for the most part, Spanish state vessels are conspicuous by their absence. Unsurprising as they are “latinos” and therefore, by definition, cowards. This has been seen before. In 1982 a dinky little British submarine took action against a pirate (criminal) vessel called Bell End....sorry, Belgrano. Amazingly, the WHOLE of the rest of the pirate fleet FLED. That was 13 vessels. Never seen again. Until reports of vessels sinking at moorings. But why send the Royal Navy? The British Army could use artillery or Apaches. The RAF could use Tornados or Typhoons. The 3rd (Leicester) Girl Guides could use knitting needles. All effective against latinos!
@7 Spain isn't a “power”!
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Jan 08th, 2014 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Spain isn't a “power,
very true,
She is just a waste of space ..
Make it 5 hours.
Jan 08th, 2014 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Barmaid, pass me the binoculars.
@10 As it happens, I think it would be a good idea to station Challenger 2 main battle tanks and Warrior IFVs at the border. Just think how the local spanish tossers would respond to a bit of kit that has never been beaten. Something for which the American Abrams is a cheap imitation. We have a few “mothballed”. A new “treat” for viewers. Watch a Challenger 2 remove a criminal border facility. What a lovely “exercise”!
Jan 08th, 2014 - 05:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you think that is going to happen.
Jan 09th, 2014 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh no 5 hours you say!
Jan 09th, 2014 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Eeek the entire might of Spain bought to bear.
Those poor Spanish maids will never get home in time to cook dinner for their unemployed husbands.
make it 5 and a half.
Jan 09th, 2014 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0maybe cut a flight for the lulz.
@14
Jan 11th, 2014 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Longer queues=more Spanish unemployment.
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