Well Fred, you are more than welcome to come down and charge the barricades. I'll send the film to 'You've been framed'.

Sounds like you a very close to the frontier?

However did you read the link?

I'll be right behind you two,..... a long way behind in fact.

The GC might be few in number but there's no telling how they might react.
Shades of their Franco days and all that which they still haven't quite forgotten yet.

Nor has Rajoy.
The only reason the country hasn't already gone up in flames, is that folk have already been made well aware what sort of heavy handed treatment they're in for, if there's even the slightest sign of demos and protests getting out of hand.

The elder sister of Spain’s King Juan Carlos I owned a plot of land in Spain through a Gibraltar company,

the revelation that a member of Spain’s royal family owned a Gibraltar company will raise eyebrows at a time when the Rock’s economic model is under constant flak from the Spanish Government.


http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31125

Dick, I think you have to admit that if many of those big (and around here rather overweight) rough boys were ever to be met by a better trained, equipped group of similar size that they would fall back. Something they don't need to do with small women and men straight off the student benches.

As with most altercations these days it's likely all down to who has the biggest and best weapons.

Seems like the Spanish have been needling the French through the back door and coerced them into cancelling the intended military exercises with Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ed-French.html

but the lads will make the best of a bad thing and find themselves somewhere else to have a game or two, before coming home again, via Gibraltar, just in time to upset Rajoy and his chattering classes

Depends which paper you chose to read.
The Sunday times reprts it simply do to lack of money in the MOD.
The UK just cannot afford it,

The article quoted a senior Spanish Minister has having said the following referring to the Chief Minister: “This guy has crossed the line, we are going to go for him…” The article adds that the Spanish secret services have now for some time been following Mr Picardo’s footsteps.”

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=31205

This was filmed and posted while I was away on holiday.
Someone sent it to me today

This video is evidence of the Spanish authorities behaviour at the Gibraltar / Spain frontier Guardia Civil officer directly abusing citizens.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9d5_1...YslGp71OZVO.99

A Bill presented to protect Gibraltar's right to its territorial waters under UK Law has unanimously progressed through to its second reading.

http://gbc.gi/news/2609/bill-to-prot...nimous-support

What a surprise, how is this news !!

What are the queues like right now Fred?

Difficult to say.

You can no longer judge the time by the length of the queue, it depends on the gun toting thugs who check after you have passed through passport and customs.

Yesterday 3 hours was reported.

I drove into Spain Tuesday for the first time in 3 months, and only because I needed to return an item under warranty that I had purchased in May.
Considering I used to spend between €100 and €200 per week back then, I am now down to €10 or less.

On Tuesday there was a small queue at 10 am moving fairly well until I was halfway to passport control when it came to a standstill and then it took 45 mins to pass the thugs.

One is stood there with a stinger in his hands all the time they are present.

I bet thew restauranteurs in the Campo de Gibraltar are rubbing their hands in glee this afternoon

The thugs from the GC descended on the frontier mid morning and created havoc.

Brilliant for the nearby Spanish businesses.