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“Gibraltar forms part of the UK”, British ambassador Manley tells Spanish media
Gibraltar will be included in whatever deal the United Kingdom negotiates to leave the European Union, Britain’s ambassador to Spain has said. Simon Manley made the comment during a wide-ranging interview with the right-wing Spanish newspaper ABC, during which he also made clear “there is no turning back” from Brexit. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Gibraltar forms part of the United Kingdom,” Mr Manley told the newspaper.”
Oct 25th, 2016 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -5Well, pay UK taxes then....
Garcia Margallo has said he wants to see the Spanish flag flying over the Rock.
Oct 25th, 2016 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Then tell us about Spain's claim?
Gibraltar - Some Relevant International Law: https://www.academia.edu/10575180/Gibraltar_-_Some_Relevant_International_Law
Gibraltar is Spanish, look at the map. Who thinks it is not, it is because they still live in the Victorian era.
Oct 25th, 2016 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -6Must be very corrupt with money buried on that piece of rock.
PIRATES!
Well, that’s pissed on Margallo fireworks.
Oct 25th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Britain is leaving, Gibraltar as part of the UK is also leaving and there is nothing Spain can do to stop that.
Threaten to veto some non-existent future overall trade deal, is all poor old Marg can do.
Otherwise, bi-lateral agreement and qualified majority voting issues he can do nothing about, unless it physically enters Spanish territory.
He knows the stakes economically for Spain, his bluff has been called and he doesn’t have a card in his hand.
Apart from his “discussions with personalities in Gib”, which we now know were a bunch of Macaques.
@ Brasileiro
Oct 25th, 2016 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse +5I looked at a map; it said 'Gibraltar (UK)'. That doesn't look very Spanish to me.
Best wishes,
Pirate DemonTree
Spain faces international condemnation as it prepares to refuel Russian battle group heading to bomb Aleppo
Oct 25th, 2016 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +4http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/25/nato-fears-russian-battle-group-may-be-used-for-indiscriminate-t/
Some say that Spain should choose between Russia And NATO,
Some allies are very worried about Spain cosying up to Russia,
and a member of Nato,
You must return the Rock, the good of the world.
Oct 25th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse -7https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUd-_WkFd7I&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=10
You must return Brasil to Portugal...
Oct 25th, 2016 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0...for the good of the world...
Voz sez: “ Well, pay UK taxes then....”
Oct 25th, 2016 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +3In that case, the eastern side of Tierra del Fuego should be returned to the UK, due to the considerable exemption of the argies there from Argentine taxation.
It's true, Brazil was part of Portugal more recently than Gibraltar was part of Spain. Like, 100 years more recently.
Oct 25th, 2016 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse +3You don't mind rejoining Portugal, right, Brasileiro? I'm sure they'll totally respect your way of life and as a bonus you get to use the Euro!
I never denied Portugal. You deny Spain!
Oct 25th, 2016 - 09:18 pm - Link - Report abuse -6Brasileiro “ Gibraltar is Spanish, look at the map”
Oct 25th, 2016 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +7Guatemala is Mexican, look at the map.
Cuba is American, look at the map.
Alaska is Canadian, look at the map.
Bulgaria is Turkish, look at the map.
Basurero Brasileiro is an asshole, look at the map.
@ Brasileiro
Oct 25th, 2016 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +3You want to be Portuguese? Don't you like being independent?
Bras
Oct 25th, 2016 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Learn some history. Gibraltar was ceded to Britain in the reign of Queen Anne, over 100 years before the Victorian era. This would make it the 18th century.
@ Briton
Oct 26th, 2016 - 02:50 am - Link - Report abuse +4“Some allies are very worried about Spain cosying up to Russia...”
Spain cosied up to Russia in 1936-1938.
It didn't turn out well.
#1: Gibraltar is not 'exempt' from UK taxation. We pay taxes to our own government because the UK believes its BOTs should have maximum self-government. FYI, personal tax rates here are virtually identical to those in the UK. Furthermore, remember 'no taxation without representation'? We have no representation at Westminster.
Oct 26th, 2016 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse +5If you're talking about places within a country with favourable tax rates though, let's look at Ceuta, Melilla and the Canaries: all VAT free, with many exemptions from Spanish taxes such as inheritance tax. Pot: kettle....
In the very unlikely event Spain got its brutish hands on Gibraltar, apart from an exodus of business, a Spanish crime rate and corrupt policemen... there is the very real danger that Spain will allow the Russian navy to dock in a Royal Navy dockyard, refuel them and generally piss on its NATO allies.
Oct 27th, 2016 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Brasilierio
Oct 27th, 2016 - 01:51 pm - Link - Report abuse +3Ceuta is Moroccan, look at the map.
As one of my professors at university in Spain used to say [referring obliquely to the Spanish government], “Africa begins at the Pyrenees....” (he was repeating a common enough expression well known in Spain). That same professor was the author of a well known textbook but as a condition of publication he was forced by the Spanish government censors to change his christian name because it didn't sound “Spanish enough.”
Oct 27th, 2016 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Spain is African, look at the map. And the history. And the behaviour. And the DNA.
Marti, what country are you from, if you don't mind me asking?
Oct 27th, 2016 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ sceptic64
If Spain get their way about leaving Gibraltar out of any EU deal (which I don't think is very likely), would you want to officially become part of the UK so they'd be forced to include you?
@demontree, I live in Gib too, I'd love for it to be officially part of the UK, one in the eye for Spain
Oct 27th, 2016 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Brasileiro
Oct 27th, 2016 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +2You must return the Rock, the good of the world
[ we did, but you Spanish keep throwing it back, with other little rocks, ]
lolol
I live in Gibraltar too, I'd love for it to be officially part of the UK,
I believe this has been mentioned a few times, but for reasons [government ] they wish to remain as they are,
but my own opinion is that Gibraltar and the Falkland's should be a part of great Britain and send MPs to Westminster ,
as it would be harder for Spain and Argentina to claim them, if they are a part of us,
at least in the short term,
but it is not popular with the people I hear,
but it is just an opinion.
DemonTree ---- “Marti, what country are you from, if you don't mind me asking?”
Oct 27th, 2016 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0--- Martí és un prenom català, que ve del nom Martinus, derivat de Mart (déu romà de la guerra). Un nom molt comú a Catalunya (però no tan comú a Gibraltar). I el cognom Llazo, és a dir el nick.... una invenció que només es veu com una frase popular en castellà i significa “cop de martell .”
@ Marti Llazo
Oct 28th, 2016 - 08:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I don't speak Catalan, but I call tell that doesn't quite answer the question. You can have a name from a certain country without actually being from there.
@ tezza
Just to annoy Spain? Wouldn't it make a difference to Gibraltar too though? I think the Gib government currently has more powers than the Scottish one, for example.
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