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Sailing from the strait of Gibraltar in to the bey, a steel, grave warship1 shaped a reminder2 that Britain is still the dominant3 overseas power on the rock. And for the locals, long may it remain so.
HMS Westminster is here as part of a long planned
naval4 exercise and not a reaction to the current diplomatic
feud5 between Spain and the UK over Gibraltar. But it can’t hurt the political
posturing6 to have a
frigate7 tied up in the harbor with two large support ships to
cramp8 with war marines alongside.
-It's essential that we have here a frigate all the time. It’s not for defy, but to show these agers(?) that this is a British one.
-Margaret
Thatcher9 met with King Juan Carlos and then Prime Minister of Spain, and they said that they weren't going to
interfere10 with your border, but they still do in 40 years after. So you can send all of the British fleets here, but they are not going to stop.
Gibraltar’s Chief Minister avoids to
jingle11 his
rhetoric12 with some of his compatriots, but he’s clear Spain is in the wrong and EU needs to sort it out and soon.
Well, I’d like to see the EU demonstrates(?), and particularly the Commission that it take its responsibilities as
guardian13 of the treaties as seriously as all of us who are pro-European believe that it does, and that it should manifest itself in action to stop the abuse that we are seeing at the frontier and with between Gibraltar and Spain.
The latest
impasse14 between Spain and its small neighbor is supposed to be about fish, but its
ramifications15 go much deeper.
The diplomatic standoff is about far more than political brinkmanship. It affects the daily lives of thousands of people, not only in Gibraltar, but also Spanish tourists who come across the border every day. The seemingly
random16 clamp down on border checks by the Spanish appears to be causing
chaos17. Many people are either abandoning their vehicles on the Spanish side or abandoning their trip altogether.
Next month, Gibraltarians will have a holiday to celebrate national day, and revealing their independence and pride in their British heritage. Spain will have to wait much longer than the three hundreds years already passed until the Rock entertains being Spanish again.
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