[Politics] Brexit

[clippedgull]

As Anne Widdecombe once said 'Michael Howard has something of the night about him'

 

[Ernest]

Apart from the Tory cuts leaving us with a NAVY consisting of a PEDALO from the lagoon I don't see much wrong with that

 

[Creaky]

Like they did before they were members of the EU you mean ?

Exactly - the border wasn't opened, (having been closed for the previous 16 years), until Spain joined the EU.

On a personal note I still hold a grudge against Gibraltar - whilst on a backpacking holiday in Europe and Africa I was refused entry, (despite having a British passport) in 1969 because I didn't have enough cash for the airfare back to the UK and was sent back to Tangiers!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I don't remember War With Spain being an option in the referendum. But, hey! We seem to have voted for it, so who am I to complain?

#StopMoaningAndAcceptTheResult

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Once the Typhoons get show down by the French we would be FIN.

Maybe the £350m can be rediverted into our Military.

 

[BensGrandad]

If we did go to war with Spain over Gib what about the expats and criminals in Spain, would they still be ok to stay in Spain

 

[GT49er]

Phew! Huge relief for some on here. They've got their Project Fear back..................bit late, but never mind!

 

[jakarta]

Once the Typhoons get show down by the French we would be FIN.

Maybe the £350m can be rediverted into our Military.

Best try that again in English?

 

[GT49er]

If we did go to war with Spain over Gib what about the expats and criminals in Spain, would they still be ok to stay in Spain

Surely they would be cutting telephone wires, blowing up bridges, sending coded short-wave messages in Morse Code from cunningly concealed radios in the cellar, and smuggling airmen shot down over Spain back to safety in Blighty?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Best try that again in English?

Why? If i don't are you going to clobber me for being johnny FOREIGNER?

 

[Withdean South Stand]

No problem, Gibraltar is basically Spanish anyway. Hand it over if it gets a better deal. I would also be happy to trade off the Isles of Man and Wight too, for the greater good. The Falklands should have been handed back long ago too.

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The British Empire will be given back bit by bit, whether it be next year or in the next hundred years. Absolutely no reason why that historical empire should continue to exist forevermore.

 

[jakarta]

Why? If i don't are you going to clobber me for being johnny FOREIGNER?

I'm afraid it was GIBberish to me...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The British Empire will be given back bit by bit, whether it be next year or in the next hundred years. Absolutely no reason why that historical empire should continue to exist forevermore.

There is no British Empire, since the early 1950s. We have a Commonwealth of countries that want to be associated with us, and countries that have voted by 99% to 1% to stay British, because they love that way of life.

 

[The aloof gatekeeper]

 

[Thunder Bolt]

No problem, Gibraltar is basically Spanish anyway. Hand it over if it gets a better deal. I would also be happy to trade off the Isles of Man and Wight too, for the greater good. The Falklands should have been handed back long ago too.

Why don't you visit those places and tell them how they should live. Anyone would think they hadn't had a vote, and were being held by the Brits by force.
I guess I've just taken your bait.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There is no British Empire, since the early 1950s. We have a Commonwealth of countries that want to be associated with us, and countries that have voted by 99% to 1% to stay British, because they love that way of life.

It's all countries with little or no no geographical bearing to the UK captured by historical naval force, with people from the old country installed either by or against their will, no matter how you like to dress it up. These territories will fall, one by one. The world map will look as far different a hundred years from now as it did a hundred years ago.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Don't worry folks I am having a game of bowls down on the Hoe just in case.
Apparently Norman Tebbit is down here with his press gang, and a nuclear sub has just left Devonport.

 

[Ernest]

I don't remember War With Spain being an option in the referendum. But, hey! We seem to have voted for it, so who am I to complain?

#StopMoaningAndAcceptTheResult

#concientousobjector

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It's all countries with little or no no geographical bearing to the UK captured by historical naval force, with people from the old country installed either by or against their will, no matter how you like to dress it up. These territories will fall, one by one. The world map will look as far different a hundred years from now as it did a hundred years ago.

I sugggest you read the history of the Falklands and Gibraltar and get back to me. Neither place was taken by force (clue 1 - the Falklands were uninhabited, clue 2 look up the Treaty of Utrecht)