The BBC’s coverage of the Gibraltar business is sadly of a standard and form we have long come to expect as the BBC sides with the EU and Spain and blames Britain for the ruckus….and Michael Howard should be ignored because he is a former PM [Yep, I seem to have promoted Howard from leader of the Tory Party] who isn’t in government anymore….so why does the BBC give headline status to the other PM has-beens, Blair and Major? Could it be because they say all the right things about the EU and Brexit, all the things the BBC likes to hear?
The BBC has been insisting all day that sovereignty is not in question…but of course it is...back in June 2016 this was said…
Britain rejects Spain’s talk of joint sovereignty for Gibraltar
In an interview on Friday morning, Spain’s acting foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said the referendum result had significantly advanced the prospect of a Spanish flag flying on the rock of Gibraltar.
“I hope the formula of co-sovereignty – to be clear, the Spanish flag on the rock – is much closer than before.”
Absolutely clear what the Spanish want, and what the EU terms give them now…a right to determine Gibraltar’s future. What is remarkable is that the BBC does not think the EU’s interference is in anyway remarkable…in effect they are annexing Gibraltar on behalf of Spain. Campbell this morning had a phone-in entitled ‘Gibraltar…should we give it back?’ A pretty leading way of introducing the subject compounded by a typical Campbell comment ‘You’re future is with the EU…you voted to stay’...and ‘Would it really be so bad if you were Spanish?’…..how about a discussion about Spain’s colonial possessions or Catalonia or indeed the borders of Europe as they constantly change? How about East Germany being handed back to Russia? Or indeed, Spain to the Moors?
Islamic State: “We Will Take Spain Back”
And not just IS that has such desires to reclaim Spain for the Muslims…
“The loss of Andalusia is like losing part of my body,” H.R.H. Prince Turki al-Faisal told me.
I had asked him what the loss of Andalusia meant to him as an Arab. The son of King Faisal, widely celebrated in the Muslim world, Prince Turki heads The King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s preeminent think tank, and has been Saudi ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K.
Astonishing how the BBC is so keen to hand over British territory and people to other countries as it continues to work to break up Britain and sell us out to the EU.
And what of Michael Howard’s remarks?…according to the BBC and the Guardian he suggests we must go to war with Spain…
The Guardian…
Theresa May would go to war to protect Gibraltar, Michael Howard says
Lord Howard raised the spectre of military action, saying that 35 years ago, “another woman prime minister sent a taskforce halfway across the world to protect another small group of British people against another Spanish-speaking country.
Trouble is Howard didn’t suggest we engage in a bit of gunboat diplomacy as the BBC tells us he did…all he said was that May should show the same resolve Thatcher did and stand her ground. He said nothing about bombing Madrid….just more BBC fake news….