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Firstly it is British, not English. They are different. So maybe you are anti-British then? But then you obviously converse in English (another colonial relic, one you seem to like though) on an English football website so now I’m confused. Secondly you can’t just re-write history as if it’s...

You do read these posts selectively. Not sure I warm to the anti-English sentiment in your final line, I‘m sure you could find a better home for that than NSC. I am also not sure I ever said I didn’t like Spain, I said I was struggling to support them In a football match ahead of Germany...

No, I’m highlighting that Spain is aggressively against the status of Gibraltar, despite its peoples wishes, but does not apply that same logic to Ceuta and Melilla, which is hypocritical.

That is a very interesting response. The Gibraltarians are consistently and passionately against being forced to be a part of Spain and positively want to remain tied to the United Kingdom. Maybe years of sieges, attacks across several wars, closed borders for 16 years up until 1985, and...

Or Ceuta. Or Melilla. Oh, hang on a minute ….

It’s more about Spain, which has colonies on the North Africa coast and islands off the West African coast that might make them think their pursuit of territory they ceded in a peace treaty, and held for relatively few years, might be hypocritical. Germany appears to me to have moved on in a...

But today we are good friends with Germany' whereas the Spanish raise constant claims and claim sovereignty over our territory, that was ceded to us 318 years ago and before the USA was even remotely thought of. So I’m struggling to support them, whereas today’s Germany and Germans are nothing...

Great post. A very good summary of many of the key points 👏

This potentially makes the assumption that all Catholics in Northern Ireland are Republicans and want a united Ireland, which I believe isn’t quite as clear as all that, and that all of Southern Ireland want to import all the hassles, problems and issues of Northern Ireland into their otherwise...

There were a few good quotes last night on this along the lines of the Scots having the assembly they wanted and instead of trying to use the powers they already have in trying to get devolution to work, they just want to grab more power without having used the ones they already have! That...

Supposition really, we’ll never know. We can say that even though he was possibly voted in to ‘get Brexit done‘ (whatever that means), it has been other factors and other things the Tories have done that have made them unpopular. So it shows how you can’t just say that you stand on one policy...

I know that’s what the SNP are saying, but actually I was a bit surprised about how quickly that argument was dismissed on Newsnight with essentially saying that you can’t ever run a general election on a single policy because there are so many other factors involved that can’t be ignored. I’d...

Well a very relevant point is that in the last general election the SNP had 45% of the vote, with a turnout of 68%, so barely more than 30% of the Scottish electorate actually voted for them!

Newsnight covered it well last night. The General Election, despite what the SNP want, does not give any mandate on a single issue such as independence.

Not at all. You say ‘if there is substantial evidence’ but that is only the start of the argument. The SNP argue that even a 50.1% vote for them in the general election is enough to demonstrate that there is a mandate whereas I and others have questioned how that can be so. Newsnight last...

So you keep running these votes whenever either party wants them? Just in case there’s a swing one way or the other? Shall we say monthly, or is that a bit too long to wait?

What also gets me is that they refer to getting just 50.1% of the vote once either in a referendum or the election as a mandate for independence. That does not prove a clear and consistent majority to make such a major constitutional change, it might be due to some very short term issues only...

That older picture is fantastic, so atmospheric.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I see where you’re coming from 😂😂😂

One highlight of my trip there was that I did get to see the current Miss Gibraltar, she walked straight past me at an event I went to wearing her sash!