Gibraltar on National Day celebration calls on QE II to again visit the Rock

Tuesday, September 16th 2014 - 02:54 UTC

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Sixty years after her last visit the Chief Minister has called on Queen Elizabeth II to visit Gibraltar. He did so in a dramatic call during his National day speech. Fabian Picardo was flanked on stage by Gibraltar Government Ministers, Opposition MPs and a contingent of visiting British MPs and MEPs. Read full article

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Brit Bob
Spain's refusal to take up the UK's offer to go the ICJ over Gibraltar's Isthmus, territorial waters and the sovereignty of the territory in 1969 means that it is precluded from ever taking its case to the ICJ. Fact.
Sep 16th, 2014 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Idlehands
Such a visit could be deemed to proliferate animal cruelty. Spain would not be able to afford to feed and care for all the kittens that would immediately be born within her borders.
Sep 16th, 2014 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Gibraltar chronicle.

No 6 urges London to pressure Spain over more bloody ‘futile’ incursions
http://www.chronicle.gi/index.php
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Sep 16th, 2014 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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paulcedron
”He continued: “Earlier this year the newly inaugurated King of Spain was announced by the BBC as the King of Gibraltar.”

conclusion: not even the BBC thinks that gibraltar is british
Sep 16th, 2014 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
but you may not even be Argentinian,
Sep 17th, 2014 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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aussiesunshinee
yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sep 17th, 2014 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brit Bob
@4 On what grounds does Gibraltar belong to Spain?

Time to state your case...
Sep 17th, 2014 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
his case is empty=impounded at the airport..lol
Sep 17th, 2014 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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NativeAngeleno
The rhetorical query of BritBob´s echoes his other equally jingoistic posts.

The Brits and Dutch essentially expelled the Spanish from Gibralter in the early 1700s. Most of the population is descended from those Spanish settlers, tho intermarriage with the British who periodically moved there in waves over the last 300 years gives the population a nominally British preponderance, even with their Spanish heritage.

Personally, as in the Falklands, i feel it´s up to the current residents to decide who they prefer to align with. Inasmuch as the population barely tops 27,000 it is Spain´s case to make as to whether the Spanish-surnamed residents choose to align with Spain or the UK. Currently it´s the latter, as is their right. If Spain wants Gibralter back enough, it should be pretty easy to settle 28,000 Spaniards there and vote the supporters of the alliance with the British out. Again, it´s up to Spain to do so. Blocking immigration to Gibralter from Spain would be as equally egregious as a Spanish invasion by force. Of course, the Brits have always been hypocritical when it comes to attacking others, e.g., kicking the residents out by filling them with fear of their new masters, as GB did 300 years ago.

When India resettles 100 million of its excess population in England to control British destiny south of Hadrian´s Wall, a modicum of justice will have been served on the British pigdom, as they have imposed on as much of the world as they could over the last four centuries. Britain´s day is soon done, a dying country and culture now in such fear of losing Scotland they have promised them all but soverignty over the crown jewels (likewise stolen from around the world as the pirates the Brits are). Northern Ireland is next, inasmuch Catholics there have finally out-produced Protestants over the last 30 years to the extent that that part of the stolen ex-Empire is all but gone. Following, Gibralter will surely leave. Tho the Falklands are safe, for a while.
Sep 18th, 2014 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brit Bob
@9. 'If Spain wants Gibraltar back' ? The question asked is, 'On what grounds does Gibraltar belong to Spain?'
Sep 18th, 2014 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
'silly anti british twat.
Sep 18th, 2014 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Brit Bob
@9 Or perhaps you would like to explain your first sentence?
Sep 18th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
, bob. Ignore him.
he is almost certainly a troll
Sep 18th, 2014 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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