Just because one poster used UK when they meant British does not justify all your rantings of justification.

J2 doesn't count... (ROFL - the smileys aren't working for me today...)

I totally agree.

MikeJ my post number 514

So Fred are you a gibratarian or brit, whose passport do you hold.
If a UK one are you going to take up Gibraltarian nationality.
The phrase plastic spaniard was used once are you a plastic Gibraltarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

so what is wrong with using UK or Britain or Brit for someone who comes from there - after all there is no term for a person for the UK in any form of common useage.

As an addendum to that; what is the accepted form for a person from Gibraltar? Gibbo doesnt sound very nice!

Gibraltarian

Wot I is

you don't sound like one - from considerably further north I would say...

I've gota stiffycat that says I is

Spain enters Gib caveat in UN hazardous waste convention

The EU is not the only place where Spain punctiliously continues to press its position on Gibraltar as a clause in every international agreement. As recently as November 2013 amendment to the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, Spain introduced, via the office of the UN Secretary General, a communication relating to the territorial application by UK to Gibraltar.

The clause states that the implementation of the Convention, and any amendments, in Gibraltar “cannot be interpreted as recognition of any rights or situations involving matters not included in Article 10 of the Treaty of Utrecht of 13 July 1713, signed by the crowns of Spain and Great Britain.”

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=32697

BTW not sounding like a Gibraltarian is a good thing...

Of course it is no

EU Commission expects UK and Spain to comply with recommendations!

The Spanish Government is under increased pressure to deliver on the EU Commission recommendations sent in a letter in mid November to London and Madrid.

I also had an informal contact with one EU official who for obvious reasons I am unable to name. This person was aware that the previous day Mr Peter Bosch had attended the Gibraltar presentation at the EU Parliament, he reiterated, that ‘both the UK and Spain are expected to comply with the recommendations forwarded by the EU Commission in their November 15 (2013) letter to both sides’.

Coming the day after EU commission cabinet minister Peter Bosch let the cat out of the bag when he made a significant address during the ‘concern citizens’ presentation, this EU official was rather apprehensive in speaking too long or in depth about the matter.

The official was well aware of Mr Bosch intervention the previous day, he told me, “the Commission is not about emotion, although we know as in this case, that people on both sides feel a lot of emotion, but for different reasons. What we want as the body responsible, is to ensure that citizen’s rights of free movement are not compromised or violated. At the moment we believe Spain are infringing these rights, we want them to do something about it or will take the matter a step further”

I asked if a step further meant taking the Spanish Government to court, I was told: “all possibilities are open, what the Commission wants from both sides is clear in the Commissions recommendation letters”. This was all this person wanted to say regarding the frontier issue. Although not a great deal, it did give a similar perspective to the one given by Mr Bosch the previous day.

http://www.panorama.gi/localnews/hea...11388&offset=0

Winter Fuel Payment will ne means-tested and paid only to those on Pension Credit. Can't be many of them in Gib !