YOU are the only one making that claim. And we all know what that means. Besides, what is your goddam problem with Gibraltar? Don't you have other things to worry about? Things must be pretty good, despite all your whinging.

The old Fogeys are getting them free, and the cook could/may have been persuaded to part with a few kilos. The regulars are probably getting them, nudge nudge,wink wink. When I was in Naples for six months I used to get the illegal stuff offered to me, like Datteri di mare etc. in the places I frequented 2 or 3 times a week. They were expensive, they blow up the reefs to get them and there were heavy penalties if caught.

Doctor Reid has highlighted that the tax-payer should pay up to ten thousand pounds for each RAF jet landing on the Rock because of the existing ban from Spanish air space. She believes this shows EU membership does not help Gibraltar as it has no impact on Spain’s behaviour. In fact, she adds, that if Britain left the constriction of the EU, it would be far better placed to stand up for the Rock and its interests.

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Posted 6th August 2015

Russian submarine surfaces in Commons debate on Gibraltar

Britain’s Minister for Europe, David Lidington, has described Spain’s hospitality towards Russian warships in Ceuta as “extraordinary” at a time of heightened tensions between NATO and Russia.

“It is extraordinary that this kind of hospitality should be shown at a time when Russia is not only engaged in a campaign of aggression and destabilisation in Ukraine but has acted in a way which threatens the security of a number of our EU and NATO allies, in particular the Baltic States,” Mr Lidington said.

Tory MP, Robert Neill said that while the UK and Spain had a good relationship, this was clouded by “the political obsession” of some members of the current Spanish government, and the “particular personal agenda” of its Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo.

“But there’s also been a quite damaging, happily unjustified and demonstrably unjustified campaign of economic slander against Gibraltar by Spain and its allies,” he added.

Mr Neill said this includes “highly erroneous” claims that Gibraltar is a tax haven, adding that nothing could be further from the truth as Gibraltar’s financial regulatory bodies “mirror British standards”.

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Rajoy is a snake in the grass.
Unfortunately it looks like he'll still be around after the next election,albeit in a weakened form.
Hard to believe after all that has gone before, though they do say a country gets the govt it deserves.

I reckon so too, and the Catalan affair will have given him added support.
As for the rest isn't that what they say about religion?

RGP Arrest Former Head of La Linea Fishermen’s Guild For Alleged Concrete Block Theft

October 21, 2015
| By Panorama reporter


The RGP have made the first arrest in the on-going investigation into the theft in June 2014 of a concrete block from the artificial reef situated off western side of the airport runway.

The defendant in the case is well known former head of the La Linea fishermen Guild Leoncio Fernandez who in late June 2014 together with a number of divers from the Spanish extreme right-wing group ‘DENAES’ allegedly carried out the removal and subsequent theft of one the blocks which formed part of the artificial reef.

RGP Arrest Former Head of La Linea Fishermen’s Guild For Alleged Concrete Block Theft

Missing frogman still an enduring Cold War mystery

by Tommy Norton

Secret papers released yesterday in the UK have shed new light on the 60-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of the frogman and Second World War hero Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Si...281958_film%29

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I don't suppose we'll ever know exactly what happened to him in the end, though it's a fair bet that the Russians caught him and dealt with him as they thought appropriate.

Representatives from the European Commission are set to visit the border tomorrow. The visit was meant to be an unannounced spot check but it has been widely leaked by the Spanish press.


Oct 26 – European Commission To Visit Border Tomorrow

So for an avid non-smoker tomorrow is a good day to pay a day visit to the Rock to stock up on Christmas duty free booze. In and out in quick time!

Should be perfectly OK tomorrow they are having their fun tonight playing silly buggers knowing that they have to behave tomorrow

A much stronger Royal Navy presence in “the British sovereign waters around Gibraltar is now paramount”, Andrew Rosindell Conservative MP and Member of the All Party British Gibraltar Group in the UK Parliament, told the House of Commons on Friday.

During the Second Reading of the Bill on Defence Expenditure, Mr Rosindell, emphasised more resources were needed to counter the illegal and aggressive incursions by Spanish vessels which shamefully supported and excused” by the Spanish Government.

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It was OK yesterday whilst the EU visited.

But no longer, the queue tonight is approaching 2 hours

“Thanks to your pragmatism you have known how to tackle problems firmly and with imagination, and I’m thinking of your brilliant defence of Spain’s territorial integrity,” Sr Rajoy wrote of his Foreign Minister.

“Your actions on the Gibraltar issue merit special recognition and you know that this is a question to which I am particularly attuned.”

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