The Policy Blender: Britain lays the smack down on the Rock

Britain lays the smack down on the Rock

Britain has sent a stern message to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister who is again sniffing around our turf.

This time the whinging wop is getting his paella in a twist about the fact the brave folk on Gib are represented by the MEP from the South West of England.

Mr Bean lookalike: Zapatero

The Sun says it's time for Zapa to zip it! Let's hear Super Tone say "no way Jose" - that Rock is ours and there's no chance of the greasy omelette-handed dago wopfaces getting their greasy wopdago omlettefaced foreign mits on our Rock. Oh no.

Posted by Ben on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

Gibraltar is approximately the size of Newbury, and is just inside the mouth of the Med. It would be of huge strategic importance if, and only if, we were at war with Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, Corsica, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus or Turkey. Otherwise it's another Northern Ireland, and we'd be better off giving it back.

My above comment is in no way intended to indicate that I feel the military spending to keep the peace in Northern Ireland is a waste of money and we should just let them shoot each other for all they're worth.

Posted by Matt | Tue Jul 05, 05:36:00 pm

The problem with Ireland stems back to the fact that we gave the Southern bit back.

I say we take it back again. Then Gerry Adams will have a united island.

Posted by Ben | Tue Jul 05, 05:41:00 pm

What for? Won't we spend more on it than we make in taxation?

Posted by Matt | Tue Jul 05, 05:43:00 pm

are you kidding?

Ireland gets all of the money everyboy else puts into the EU - the place is a goldmine!

Posted by Ben | Tue Jul 05, 05:58:00 pm

we could even prevent Ronan Keating from making any more boybands!

Posted by Ben | Tue Jul 05, 05:59:00 pm

Aren't people going to stop the EU pumping money into places this week?

Posted by Matt | Wed Jul 06, 09:32:00 am