Seems legit

EMR is really scraping the barrel (hopefully not full of blubber from baby seals) to get this thread locked, having exhausted any tenuous link to reality. I hope that doesn't happen. Keep posting the news Fred, I enjoy the updates.

Well it was in return for the help given by 350 Catalans in the capture of Gibraltar in 1704.

But my ministerial position prevents me from making public statements ahead of any statement by "King Picardo"

Fred If I were you I would read up more on European history.
What was an English army doing in Flanders and Germany at the same time battles of Ramilles, Oudenarde etc picking flowers.
The war in question and British involvement was about reducing the expanding power of France who used the excuse of with rival claimants to the Spanish throne as an excuse.

Paint it any way you like Gibraltar is an itegral part of the Spanish mainland and about as part of the British Isles as the enclaves in Morroco are Spanish.

Fish didn't work. Fags didn't work. Football didn't go anywhere.

Well, I reckon it's inevitable that a fallback to the good old sandbox argument of "your daddy is worse than my daddy" is worth a shot.

EMR, if I were you I would read up more on European geography and then you may discover what actually constitutes the British Isles

On par with Portugal then ?

Gibraltar is an "Isthmus" and in point of fact when the British obtained the Treaty possession of Gibralter there was little connection with mailand Spain save for a sand bar which has since been expanded into the airport!

A little bit of Global Warming and it will be again, bring it on

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/world-temp...4.html#6dW73QB

And Global Warming - that's Gibraltar's fault too you know

So that explains why Gibraltar caused global warming.

(oops you got there before me :-)

So finally an admission that. Nothing but hot air comes out of GiB judging by the daily bulletins from the ministry of informatin courtesy of our local correspondent.

Better hot air than the shite from 4 kms north of the frontier

This is no isolated occurrence

Have you considered a career in comedy? I'm thinking you'd cast well as a straight man in a daft sitcom, or maybe a village idiot.

A double act with two tubes of anusol?

The Apes were only sent temporarily to the UK, In reality they were whisked off to the Far East as part of Gibs' drive to help speciality catering worldwide. In this case to augment restaurant businesses that specialise in eating the brains of live primates.