This is an example of the sort of constant low-level anti-EU/anti members of the EU propaganda in the UK media. Very interesting when you analyse it a bit.
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Read this yesterday, pathetic bit of "reporting ".
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So what actually happened then ?
Big bad Spanish boat passing Gibraltar was âchased offâ by a little brave British warship 
Thatâll teach those dirty forrins !!
Wasnât the Spanish warship in UK waters without permission? Apparently this happens dozens of time a year so hardly a big deal.
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The article says âapproaching British waters near Gibraltarâ so either in its own waters what with geographical propinquity anâ all, or in international waters.
But no we have to have the whole sinking of the Revenge/sir John Moore at Corunna/bowls on Plymouth Hoe in the face of the Armada schtick.
Pass the sick bucket.
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I know you canât read the whole article but the headline says it all -
Whatever claim Spain has over Gibraltar this just looks like yet another deliberate act on their part, of course that doesnât fit the narrative though.
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The irony is that in economic terms Gibraltar is a disgrace - its economy leans heavily on a very poorly regulated âfinancial servicesâ sector, equally poorly regulated online services (mainly gambling!), and smuggling. Come to think of it - pretty much the brexitersâ plan for the whole UK economy - an island of unregulated cowboy capitalism parasiting off the EUâs attempts to protect its people!
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Johnson will need to do more than rely on âDunkirk spiritâ to stay afloat!
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The Falklands must be concerned right now looking towards Argentina - Johnson would leap at a similar campaign right now.
The irony is that despite Gib being the embodiment of much that the free marketeer Brexiters hold dear and the place being a bit like some counter-factual version of 1950âs England (Isle of Wight on the Med anyone?) the Gibraltarians still voted Remain. Despite their longstanding ties to Britain, these people wanted to remain EU citizens.
Most colonial era enclaves are unstable historical anomalies and I donât see this one as an exception.
At first didnât realise that there were two boats in the picture, thought that âthe tiny RN boatâ was the (not that big) âSpanish warshipâ! Presumably on this basis most British - sorry, âEnglishâ - coxed rowing eights could probably see off any Spanish warship smaller than a destroyerâŚ
Rule Britannia!
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At first didnât realise that there were two boats in the picture, thought that âthe tiny RN boatâ was the (not that big) âSpanish warshipâ! Presumably on this basis most British - sorry, âEnglishâ - coxed rowing eights could probably see off any Spanish warship smaller than a destroyerâŚ
Rule Britannia!
I always find the Spanish anger over Gibraltar amusing when they insist on keeping hold of their enclaves in Morocco.
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Thatâs former imperial powers for you
Exactly, all as bad and hypocritical as each other.
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âThe Gibraltarians voted to remain and to be EU citizensâ,i should think they did,anyone with half a brain that live in the EU would have to have been kicked in the head by a horse(lol) to have voted leave.
I have it from a well-informed source that he relies most heavily on the Russian spiritâŚ
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Coming from Portsmouth news, Iâm not really surprised.