This little piece of BBC bias was picked up over on Twitter by @IvorGrumble. I bring it your attention thanks to her eagle eyes…
Tensions over fishing rights around the British territory of Gibraltar have been raised, following an incident involving Gibraltarian police boats and British Royal Navy, and Spanish police. It comes after several days of dispute in which Spanish police escorted Spanish fishing boats near the area. The Gibraltar government says fishing with large nets there is illegal because of an environmental law. Spain claims sovereignty over Gibraltar, a British colony since 1713.
Huh? Gibraltar is NOT a “colony” — it is a British territory. The BBC just cannot help themselves, can they. Be it the Falklands or Gibraltar, you KNOW which side they are on.
Don’t worry, Spain will shortly be so broke that they won’t be able to afford the fuel for their escort boats!
In 2002 the people of Gib voted against sharing sovereignty with Spain by 97%, the turnout was 87%; seems a pretty democratic statement of their position. What say you BBC?
So it was a narrow victory then, in the style of Boris against Livingslime.
‘the people of Gib voted against sharing sovereignty with Spain by 97%, the turnout was 87%’
I believe this is, in the BBC Book of Semantics (a bit like Todd’s Book of Evil, only without the laughs), what is quaintly called a ‘split’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11458726
Comments left on the Guardian website where the film was posted before being taken down on the 10:10 site, were split between those congratulating the team and others who thought it was in bad taste.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
Before it closed, and despite the modding, looking at the comments, and the recommends garnered (from the home team), as a piece of self-deluding propaganda, ‘split’ is pretty hilarious in the BBC lexicon.
Their ‘reporting’ on anything, anymore, is rightly suspect and mockworthy.
Jag,
Already happened. they are looking at mothballing their carrier as they cannot afford to run it.
http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/axarquia-malaga-east/92464-spanish-aircraft-carriers-end-could-be-near
The strange thing is Spain is skint. Yet after they declared an amnesty for all their illegals in which to placate Islam (After they blew up Madrid) which they followed up by building lots of mosques in Morocco. They ran a drive in which to give a Spanish passport to anybody whose grandparents/parents were Spanish in Latin America. Should a country which is skint really be doing so?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16342340
The thing is (which the bbC doesn’t mention) is all these freeloaders pop over to the Uk in which to live off our benefits.
The bBC, the traitors in our Midst.
Ah, that result must have been because the public simply didn’t understand the issues.
JAG
Those figures represent hegemonic imperialistic Anglo-ethno unconscious racism. In other words, they really want to be Spanish, they just don’t know it.
In the main the Gibraltese are Spanish (and Arab, Greek, Jewish and British) and it must infuriate the dagos across the border that the Gibraltese prefer to remain British. It must also infuriate our government who would happily sell them out to Spain for some ill-defined future advantage (such as help from Spain in Euro votes). As you say the aim is convince them that they are in fact Spanish. I’m reminded of my A-level politics class and the so called ‘greening of Ulster’. The idea was to convince Northern Ireland’s protestants that they were in fact Irish and not British. To a certain extent this has worked (through relentless propaganda) because a majority of NI’s protestants now regard themselves as ‘northern Irish’ rather than British.
Yeah, Jersey’s French too I suppose.
Hardly a surprise. To the average Beeboid there is no such thing as an Englishman so they are hardly likely to recognize a Gilbralterian. It really is a rubbish outfit.
The Islamic-obsessed BBC support every cause but Britain’s. Did anyone happen to watch yet more nauseating Syria propaganda tonight on the ‘News’ at Ten? I am sick to death with the BBC’s left wing bias and Islamic groveling; the ways in which the British Lying Corp pussyfoot around and genuflect to Muslims is simply unbearable. There are Christians being persecuted RIGHT NOW throughout Africa and around the World (usually by Muslim fanatics) but the ‘British’ Socialist Corp couldn’t care less. I pray that my two children live to see the day when the tyrannical and Stalinist TV License fee is abolished.
I pray I live to see the day, bBC newsmen and women are beheaded by the people they defend.
Ok,
Two glasses of wine whilst watching question time (Don’t ask why,just bored) which allowed me to think about this MB.
When it comes to Fishing, Spain is a Superpower. So much so they have sucked dry everywhere they go. (North Sea, Canada,America, Morocco, Somalia (which is why they have been banned by the latter 4 states) The Med for those who don’t know was fished dry years ago, what is left isn’t worth catching , which may also explain why the Spanish are looking at milking dry the waters off Gib.
However and a big however, just like the Argentines, the country is skint and the plebs are protesting , what better way to divert folks anger in which to have a dig at Gib.
What I cannot understand is how the bBC which has no problem telling the story of any leftwing,Islamic,green cause remains silent on the issues about Gib in this article. I mean its not as if Spain have any claim on Gibraltar seeing as how they signed Gib over to the Uk in
Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Instead the bBC promotes this view that actually the Spanish are in the right here. Really? I wonder why the bBC don’t mention the hypocrisy being shown by Madrid over how they continue to claim their two enclaves in North Africa are “Spanish lands” and not up for discussion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14114627
Maybe there lies the reason Morocco have banned EU (read Spanish )fishing ships from their waters.
The bBC, the traitors in our Midst
Also the Canary Islands are off the coast of Morocco and nowhere near Spain. They should be made to give up all these places and only then we might discuss Gibraltar with them. But if the people of Gib still want to remain British then sobeit. But Spain should shut up about it until they have got rid of everything that is not in Spain or off the Spanish coast.
Great comment although one small improvement if I may…
The local Spanish fishermen are banned from *5* territorial waters. The one you missed was…Spain.
The fishermen from Algeciras on the other side of the Bay here are banned from fishing in their own waters so they come to Gib to fish with illegal nets which wouldn’t be allowed anywhere else in the EU.
I see the confrontations in the Bay between the Royal Navy plus Royal Gibraltar Police against the Spanish fishermen and the Guardia Civil most days from my office window. Yesterday we ended up with Spanish helicopters involved and it had the potential to get very messy.
Both sides have guns. Sooner or later, an accident will happen and things will get a bit interesting. The BBC of course will be “neutral”.
From 1969 until 1981 we survived Franco completely closing the border and the blockade (longer if you count the other years of no cars crossing etc)
Done it before, will do it again.
We’ll get no support from the BBC, no support from the Foreign Office and (ferchrissakes) the British Ambassador to Spain happens to be Jeremy Paxman’s brother so we’re screwed there too.
God Bless the Queen of Gibraltar
I found out all I needed to know by reading the gib press (include a photo of how close the ships are to Gib) where they are fishing off the mole and a butchers at google maps. Which tells me this is more political than anything else. Add the protests in Spain and we can see that the spanish are hoping the noise and bluster will divert attention away from their real problems.
Great comments!, chaps. Indeed, as long as Spain has the Canaries and all those still hotly disputed places along Morocco’s coast then the hypocritical Spannish clowns haven’t got a leg to stand on!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Plazasdesoberan%C3%ADa.png
Look at Ceuta (population 79,000, like Malilla further along) and Isle del Perejil, both just across from Gibraltar (population 30,000)….hilarious. Talk about the Spannish wanting their cake and to eat it..
You’d think anti-British Al-Beeb would focus more on helping its muslim Moroccan brothers and sisters.
But anyway, stuff Spain for holidays this year, i’ll consider spending my hard earned in BRITISH Gibraltar instead!
If you make it out to Gibraltar then contact me on the usual address and I’d be delighted to have a beer or two with you!
The growing BBC-EU broadcasting empire, to be financed by
British licencepayers:
“BBC flexes online video muscle in Europe ”
http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2012052522053/bbc-flexes-online-video-muscle-in-europe.html
One hates to spoil a good story, but, as a matter of record, Gibraltar WAS known as a “Crown Colony” until 1981, when the definition changed to “British Dependent Territory” under the British Nationality Act. And since the British Overseas Territory Act of 2002 it’s been a “British Overseas Territory”.
Thanks.
GMZ wrote:
“but, as a matter of record, Gibraltar WAS known as a “Crown Colony” until 1981, “
So let me get this straight, 31 years ago Gib stopped being a colony. If that is so, why does the bBC refer to Gibraltar as a colony now, when it no longer is.
‘why does the bBC refer to Gibraltar as a colony now, when it no longer is?’
Ah, that would be the world-renowned information and education thing… plus accuracy… one hears about. A lot.
As Hugs Boaden is wont to declaim: ‘As the news cycle gets faster and fiercer, there’s never been more need for its unique and invaluable take on world events.
Unique as in..?
it’s basically piss poor research, and useless editorial oversight.
The reporter is so keen to make all the “right” points that the correct title and status of Gib is never mentioned, and never checked.
Happens all the time. A particular fury instigator is when some Beeboid gets military ranks and regiments names wrong – especially when the soldier they are reporting on is coming home in a box. It’s not that difficult to ring the MOD press people and check. I’ve lost time of the number of times I’ve complained about that one. Off topic I know but I felt like a rant!