Agree with you Dom regarding how the average Spaniard feels which is exactly the way the average Brit feels.
If Fred did not publish his daily news the sum total of interest on Gib would be a BIG FAT ZERO.

I'm not trying to start a war, but thought it was time to present a view from the million British expats living in Spain as opposed to the tiny number of proper British people living on that tiny Rock, British people, not Gibraltarians.

Because of the British flag they continuously wave they have the sympathy of the UK in general, but it's disproportionate to their size and importance. Ten times more British people (expats) live in my small Spanish city alone who are just as patriotic, if not more so than the charlatans living on the rock.

Good luck to the people on the Rock, but I can't see it doing any harm to put them straight once in a while.

And this is a discussion forum, is it not.

The real reason is expats don't want the issue to spoil their lives. Most of them would denounce their own Grandmother to get an easy life.

Seems some on here don't read he Spanish newspapers. The Gibraltar issue was in some papers yesterday.

It was a major issue on several Spanish TV News channels yesterday also.

Nothing in the UK.

What a brilliant first line! I've met quite a few that fall into that category.

Which is precisely why us expats are fed up with Gibraltar.

Earlier today I saw something I haven't seen for many years. A drunken woman English holidaymaker paraded in front of a group of us expats dressed in a Union Jack dress.

Singing patriotic songs she expected a round of applause and got the precise opposite. We don't need people like her nor the Gibraltar flag wavers.

It took us years to send our dross home, I suppose it will take a fair bit longer to clear the rest of dross out of the Rock.

only some ??
what a let down, I am sure you were really disappointed

it is all engineered from Rajoy's office. Keeps the plebs wondering about other things instead of the corruption he is accused of in the Barcenas affair, the problems being caused by certain members of the Royal Family.

Always better to engineer a story than have people pick up on the real news of the day.

Well at least one other person on this forum is aware of the truth

The expats in Europe are afraid that the UK may pull out, why?

Well first their pension will probably at the least be frozen.

Secondly the payments for health will again probably be stopped.

Does that worry me NO, so bring it on.

Expats are hacked off with Quantitative Easing as well. It keeps the exchange rate low which of course helps UK's exports. But sod that - we would much prefer 1.60 to the pound.

So bugger Gibraltar and bugger the UK as well. Just as long as everything is OK for us expats.

Spain has infringement proceedings galore, while Gibraltar has only one

The Spanish have made a song and dance about the news that the European Commission has opened an investigation into Gibraltar’s corporate tax matter. Landaluce and others are hoping that this will negatively affect the finance centre, while Margallo said it was ‘magnificent news’.

What they have not said is that on the same day that the EC made its announcement about Gibraltar, there was also another announcement about another in-depth investigation into airlines operating at two Spanish airports. But the Spanish have hidden the news about Spain!

Not only that, but in matters of taxation, Spain leads the way with nearly twenty infringement proceedings, compared with the solitary one about Gibraltar which has now emerged following a complaint by the Spanish Government. And let us not say that the Commissioner for state-aid is a Spaniard.

The Gibraltar government has already explained the minimal effects which the infringement proceeding is likely to have on Gibraltar’s finance centre, which the Spanish Government is so eager to destroy.

But what about those nearly-twenty Spanish infringement proceedings on taxation matters alone, because they have other infringements in other EU matters.

http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...10964&offset=0

The EU is BENT


Yes.

...and also a dictatorship which succeeded where Hitler failed.
Up till now anyway,
.........but I for one won't lose any sleep if the whole stinking rotten house of cards collapsed tomorrow.