Oh they can afford it alright as long as we keep on paying for it.

They hardly need to be dredging Gibraltar waters with income like this.


http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/10/02...ravenous-fleet

The Spanish version of France's CAP

€millions channelled to Spain whilst British fishing fleets are being decommissioned and turned into weekend holiday retreats in the marina.

the biggest problem with trawl fishing is it catches everything, in the UK they are heavily penalised for accidental over catching or catching of fish they aren't allowed to catch. not in Spain

can u imagine a situation where kids are putting their hands into bran tubs and may lose their hand if they pull out the wrong item ??

Spain has its own Gibraltar - and that's Andorra. Our town actually twinned with a town there (Encamps) to make it easier, with a free bus, for our citizens to go and check their bank accounts. Oddly, no one talks about Andorra... ruled jointly by François Hollande and Joan Enric Vives i Sicília, the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell.
Perhaps we should sort this all out and give Gib to the Bishop of Norwich.

Does Andorra also have problems protecting it's territorial waters from the Spanish fishermen

SOPHIE, Countess of Wessex revealed more than she was hoping after she was caught unaware in windy Gibraltar.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...r-of-Gibraltar

Spain to go to UN re. gibraltar

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...vereignty.html

J2 it's an annual event no decisions are made or upheld and the UN committee gets handsomely rewarded, why would they want to end the gravy train?

The only thing stopping Gib being decolonised is Spain.

Madrid daily ABC yesterday reported that King Juan Carlos of Spain will be visiting Algeciras next week “to support the work of the Guardia Civil” in the current fishing dispute with Gibraltar.

http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=25142

http://www.abc.es/20120613/espana/ab...206131421.html

So as part of the "solidarity" Spain will not be attending the 2012 Olympics in London
another freebie they couldnt do without

But do the waters surrounding Gibraltar really belong to the colony? because according to the Spanish the original Treaty says otherwise.


Of course you would... that kind of diversion is what Maggie Thatcher intended by invading the Falklands and boosting nationalism, dear.

Funny that the Spanish don't have the same morals about the land they still occupy in Morocco and their sovereign waters eh?

The one that is NOT a colony and was already Portuguese-Spanish before Morocco even existed?

Thats not even possible, check your history, it may not have been called Morocco but it was definitely a country and as I have said to the other troll, the MOORS ruled Spain before Spain was a country so it simply doesn't make sense.

If you take the end of Moorish rule as the beginning of modern Spain then Gibralter has actually been British far longer than it was Spanish.

Troll? I´m not even spanish, and I´m entitled to give my opinion just like anyone else. Please keep that in mind.

And sorry but you´re not making any sense here. Gibraltar should become what Ceuta and Malilla are, just in British hands. I´m against colonization of any kind. And what do the Moors (who ruled 2/3 of the peninsula, by the way) have to do with it?? if they couldn´t retain their conquered land back in the middle age that´s their bloody problem! They didn´t sign any treaty that I´m aware of, did they?