> the UK left the EU last month and cannot be considered as an ally for it gibraltar politics anymore... I'm sorry, but this is fairly laughable - if you had a

> the UK left the EU last month and cannot be considered as an ally for it gibraltar politics anymore... I'm sorry, but this is fairly laughable - if you had any idea of the relationship between Spain and the UK over the last n decades, you'd know that Spain is the belligerant 'partner' in this relationship and has, for all but about 5 years around the turn of the millennium been apt to abuse the Gibraltar question as a temporary salve for whatever domestic political problem it is distracting its populace from. It would be simpler to say that Spain is historically a naval power and has a lot of coastline, and leave it at that... .