Brexit

[sunday]

 

Most important question: Are we getting Gibraltar back?

You remember those NRA bumper stickers with 'From my cold, dead hands!'

 

 

Well, a wait of 60 years is no big deal...

[Marek Tucan]

Nah that is too boring. Just send polite green Spanish tourists there

[Stuart Galbraith]

Or hire some German tourists to go and dominate all the sun loungers in the morning. The place would be bankrupt in a week.

[JasonJ]

Most important question: Are we getting Gibraltar back?

Just militarily take it and have the Spanish Prime Minster make a visit to it like how the South Koreans did regarding Takeshima

[Ivanhoe]

Most important question: Are we getting Gibraltar back?

 

Why not do the classy American thing and just build a replica?

 

[Corinthian]

Nah that is too boring. Just send polite green Spanish tourists there

 

Or hire some German tourists to go and dominate all the sun loungers in the morning. The place would be bankrupt in a week.

 

 

No. The real experts now in annexation-by-tourists are polite green Russian tourists.

[Leo Niehorster]

You're only in trouble if the Spanish tourists start handing out passports.

[Panzermann]

You're only in trouble if the Spanish tourists start handing out passports.

They might try handing out Spanish passports, but the Gibraltarians most probably will not take them. Thye are quite happy with their status as it is.

[sunday]

When confronted about the different treatment received by Hong Kong residents and Gibraltar ones, some jingoistic hooligans said to me in Facebook that Hong Kong was reverted to China because the territory was unsustainable without the New Territories that were leased for 99 years and were due to be returned.

 

One wonders if Gib is sustainable with the frontier closed. For example, several of the most conspicuous Gibraltar leaders live in a quite posh residential development called Sotogrande, a few miles to the East of the Rock.

[Simon Tan]

Yes. Maintaining Gibraltar is quite worth the while to spite Spain. Or what is left of it. Indeed perhaps Spain will deport the English who blight the lovely beaches for Continentals.

Edited May 18, 2016 by Simon Tan

[sunday]

Deport the English? Perish the thought! Better to fleece them

[Stuart Galbraith]

Gibraltar beaches? From what ive seen of them on TV they look about as lovely as a tray of cat litter and about as much room. Tower Bridge Beach looked nicer.

 

Still, its British. It might be cat litter, but at least its OUR cat litter.

[Panzermann]

When confronted about the different treatment received by Hong Kong residents and Gibraltar ones, some jingoistic hooligans said to me in Facebook that Hong Kong was reverted to China because the territory was unsustainable without the New Territories that were leased for 99 years and were due to be returned.

 

One wonders if Gib is sustainable with the frontier closed. For example, several of the most conspicuous Gibraltar leaders live in a quite posh residential development called Sotogrande, a few miles to the East of the Rock.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_San_Roque.svg

 

suspiciously similar coat of arms and flag.

[Stuart Galbraith]

San Roque, or Sans Rock?

[Ivanhoe]

Yes. Maintaining Gibraltar is quite worth the while to spite Spain. Or what is left of it. Indeed perhaps Spain will deport the English who blight the lovely beaches for Continentals.

 

Deprive the Spaniards of English cuisine? How cruel!

[sunday]

 

Yes. Maintaining Gibraltar is quite worth the while to spite Spain. Or what is left of it. Indeed perhaps Spain will deport the English who blight the lovely beaches for Continentals.

 

Deprive the Spaniards of English cuisine? How cruel!

 

 

Unusual punishment, indeed!

 

(still, I loved that roast beef they serve in the Dover Castle NAAFI)

[Panzermann]

 

Unusual punishment, indeed!

 

(still, I loved that roast beef they serve in the Dover Castle NAAFI)

English cooking is much better than its infamous reputation.

 

They gave us steak!

Fish & chips

full english (breakfast)

Jamie oLiver (okay his fame gets to him)

pies

 

 

But they also invented some rather questionable dishes too. Deep fried mars bar, pizza... *shudder* jellied eel. (I like'em smoked)

[swerve]

Deep fried Mars bar is not English. It's thought very weird in England. It's Scottish.

[Panzermann]

Deep fried Mars bar is not English. It's thought very weird in England. It's Scottish.

Sorry. You are right of course.

[Mikel2]

Maybe someone should tell Putin there is an oppressed Russian minority at Gibraltar

[Simon Tan]

I would enjoy that. A lot. Kalinin sur Med.

[Ivanhoe]

Deep fried Mars bar is not English. It's thought very weird in England. It's Scottish.

 

Distinction without a difference, just ask BillB.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

Deep fried Mars bar is not English. It's thought very weird in England. It's Scottish.

 

Distinction without a difference, just ask BillB.

 

Bill always seems to remind me of this song. Though maybe a little less Quentin Crisp.

Edited May 19, 2016 by Stuart Galbraith

[Corinthian]

Gibraltar beaches? From what ive seen of them on TV they look about as lovely as a tray of cat litter and about as much room. Tower Bridge Beach looked nicer.

 

That's why the last Neanderthals died - of depression.

 

[sunday]

Now, leaving jokes behind, this is so disgraceful that only the Spanish MoD could do it. But it was the British one...

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/671093/British-soldiers-left-homeless-Gibraltar-Government-housing-deal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

If the Gib government does not want to pay for Gibraltar Regiment dependents lodgings, then soon the British public opinion on the people of Gibraltar would be quite in line with the Spanish opinion.