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Originally Posted by rcaf_777
What would Spain have to gain by taking Gibraltar?
99% of people living in Gibraltar voted in 2002 for a British Government not a Spanish one.
So what dose the Spanish Government gain from taking this rock? Maybe this is another ploy to keep the UK in the EU?
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I will remind you sir, senor, that chunk of rock was part of Spain long before it was covered by an English flag.
Gain? Why, 300 years of back taxes on property would be a tidy sum for the Spanish governmental coffers, not to mention taxes on Gibraltar banking...
Plus the Spanish Navy gains the ability to close the Pillars of Hercules whenever Spain feels the need to collect a toll.
A vote? Who voted? How did Gibraltar natives of Spanish descent vote? Not British ex-pats or the children of British ex-pats - they are interlopers and their vote should not count.
If you were taking a vote in Crimea, would you allows Russian soldiers of the occupying force to vote? Of course not.
And the Rock apes - the actual apes - has anyone polled them? Wouldn't they be happier with all the pesky English military gone and all those facilities turned to an ape preserve?
Entirely (well, mostly entirely) facetiously,
Uncle Ted
