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Theresa May pledges full support for Gibraltar in private letter to Picardo
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged her new administration’s full support to Gibraltar, in a recent private letter to Chief Minister Fabian Picardo. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTereza May? Prime Minister? It was Cameron?
Aug 26th, 2016 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Haha some countries can change leaders without people running around shouting COUP.
Aug 26th, 2016 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stick to your dysfunctional republican system, Brasileiro.
So because your problems are so great? And you as strangers?
Aug 26th, 2016 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_o8gg_OmFI
TWIMC
Aug 26th, 2016 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Geeeeee....
This haughty modern Engrish leaders could learn some humility from the most graceful, brave & magnificent King England ever had....
Cnud, the Great Dane ;-)
The waves are coming... Engrishmen and women...
Time to leave your Overseas Thrones...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_waves
@2
Aug 26th, 2016 - 02:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Heh yes, especially Australia right Skip? ;-)
No surrender! Betting and money la err financial services will continue unhindered and Spaniard usurpers will be ignored (along with various inconsequential SA nutjobs). Somewhere for our Aircraft Carriers to stock up and enjoy the sunshine.
Aug 26th, 2016 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed DemonTree
Aug 26th, 2016 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We've become almost experts at it in the last few years! LOL
Thankfully a Prime Minister is easier to dump than a president such as Maduro, Chavez, Dilma, Cristina or God forbid, Trump.
Compare the political “turmoil” between Britain and Brazil's change in leaders. Poor Brasileiro had no idea.
@2 Skip “Haha some countries can change leaders without people running around shouting COUP.”
Aug 26th, 2016 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Although, in fairness it seems that we/they can't try to change the leader of the opposition without the shouting and the running about...
Graças a Deus.
Aug 26th, 2016 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As long as the Gibraltarian's wish to remain British,
Aug 26th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the British are going nowhere,
Spain will be very lucking to survive intact ,
it may yet break up.
Gibraltar is Spain. Thieves are you English!
Aug 26th, 2016 - 07:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now now,
Aug 26th, 2016 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Spain has no legal claim whatsoever over Gibraltar,
Gibraltar is not Spanish, and never will be.
@7 Skip
Aug 26th, 2016 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I especially liked the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd double. :-)
To be fair to Brazil though, the new president is from a different party, has totally different policies, and is probably even more bent than the one they voted for. I'd be unhappy too.
Also I wonder if this the first time the prime minister has changed because the PM was angry with the people, rather than the other way around?
@12. In 1713, more than 100 years before Brazil “declared” independence and 113 years before that “independence” was recognised, Gibraltar was ceded to Britain IN PERPETUITY.
Aug 27th, 2016 - 06:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you understand “PERPETUITY”? It means “FOREVER”! If you can goad that tiny particle of matter that may constitute an incomplete brain cell into unaccustomed activity, can you see how curious it is that spain uses one part of a specific treaty to deny Gibraltar its rights and press its illegitimate claim, whilst denying another part of the same treaty? Especially as spain has already breached that treaty at least 14 times!
“It will take some time for our future relationship with the EU to become clear ”
Aug 27th, 2016 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why?
I do hope she isn't doing something behind 'the back' of the Brexiters. There are mixed messages coming out of No 10 at present.
And just how did this “recent private letter to Chief Minister Fabian Picardo” come into the public domain?
15-ChrisR - by time for EU relations to become clear she simply means what terms we will end up agreeing on re trade and price and freedom of movement levels etc,and freedom of financial movement. Currently all in the pot- UK wants more of some and less of others- EU probably wants it the other way around.- yet to be agreed on.
Aug 27th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Very early days yet.
Amuses me how so many currently shouting “look at UK economy 2 months on - just shows the brexit side was right and remain were wrong” - UM - Er - WE are still IN the EU folks- same as 3 months or 3yrs ago!
Time will tell all.
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Aug 27th, 2016 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0. In 1713, more than 100 years before Brazil “declared” independence and 113 years before that “independence” was recognised, Gibraltar was ceded to Britain IN PERPETUITY.
Do you understand “PERPETUITY”? It means “FOREVER”! If you can goad that tiny particle of matter that may constitute an incomplete brain cell into unaccustomed activity, can you see how curious it is that spain uses one part of a specific treaty to deny Gibraltar its rights and press its illegitimate claim, whilst denying another part of the same treaty? Especially as spain has already breached that treaty at least 14 times
You was I presume referring to Brasileiro
at 9 and 11,
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