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Spanish hypocrisy over Gibraltar

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  1. Medro

    Medro Well-Known Member

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    A top Spanish foreign policy official has said it is difficult to trust the UK, amid a dispute between the two countries over Gibraltar.

    The row began after Gibraltar created an artificial reef which, the Spanish say, is in a special conservation area and will disrupt fishing there.

    Asked by a BBC correspondent if it was wise for Spain, a Nato ally of the UK, to seek Argentine diplomatic support, Mr Ibanez said the issue of Gibraltar had similarities to that of the Falkland islands, which he called by their Argentinian name, the Malvinas.

    What about Ceuta, Melilla, Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Alhucemas and the Chafarinas Islands. Spanish terrtories in North Africa?

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    I'm sure, in time, they will create artificial reefs there too. I won't be upset if they don't though.
     
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    They already create them around the coast of mainland Spain. Just a way of diverting attention away from their crumbling economy.

    My brother said that the Spanish government took 20 yoyos out of his account the other week. Went to the bank and complained about it. He was given a form to fill out to stop it and the cashier told him that most people don't realise the money comes out and that next to no one complains about it.

    Robbing bastards.
     
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    EDGE. Official POTY 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2023

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    Easy way to sort this out is to invade the country, steal the better looking women and nuke the place then scorch the Earth.
     
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    What kind of yoyos?
     
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    It'll happen here soon enough... I think Greece do it too
     
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    Everyone does it just under different names i.e Bin Tax,Water Tax,Council Tax,2nd Home Tax <wah>
     
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    So Argentinian is now a language is it Medro? I thought they spoke Spanish there but evidently not. You learn something new every day.

    I don't see how Spain is being hypocritical on this at all - it disputes our right to Sovereignty of Gibraltar whilst asserting its own elsewhere. Simple history and trying to safeguard its own interests rather than hypocrisy.
     
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    Those ****ty ones they use in mainland Europe.

    Slimey ****s.

    He moved all his money to his Gib bank account.

    A bird he knows worked with the Russian foreign minister of Spain and the fella told her months ago to get all of her money out of her Spanish bank account. Obviously that **** knew what was gonna happen.
     
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    Right enough
     
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    Where did I say it was a language? That is what the country calls it?

    For example if a yank was talking about football "...called by their Armecian name, Soccer" does not mean American is a language.

    So you don't think it's hypocritical that they are in the same postion with morocco when it comes to the likes of Ceuta?
     
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    This will rock Gibralta.
     
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    I would have said "Spanish name" rather than Argentinean but yeah both would be correct i suppose.

    I don't think Spain is being hypocriitical. It believes that Gibraltar belongs to it so of course it's going to criticise anything that puts its people at a disadvantage (I believe the reef prevents its vessels from following their traditional fishing patterns there which were apparently the subject of an agreement between UK and Spain for many years). it also believes it owns ceuta etc. so therefore acts how it likes. Pefectly justifiable even if you don't agree with it.
     
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    To Medro adults attacking schoolchildren with stones over their religion is perfectly justifiable. That's the kind of subhuman scum you're dealing with.
     
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    When did I say this?

    Of course they are being hypocritical they are doing exactly the same with Morocco.
     
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    No - Spain is complaining about the activity in gibraltar as it does not believ Gibraltar should be doing that as spain still has sovereignty claims and says it owns it. It rejects Morocco's sovereignty claims on Cueta so it does what it likes. It is not hypocritical at all. Now if Morocco had identical grounds for claiming sovereignty of those areas as Spain does for claiming Gibraltar then Spain would be being hypocrticial if ti acted in certain ways - this act, in my opinion, isn't though.
     
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    Cueta is inhabited by ****s and *****s so it doesn't matter.
     
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    I imagine Medro as being an Antony Royle type figure, sat in his room with his Farm LP on repeat, a box of Kleenex and a 15-year-old issue of Loaded
     
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