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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
no i didnt really mean slavery in terms of our spanish buddies - i was just saying why not give it back as we gave back a lot of other stuff that we happened to get as the rest of the world had just discovered fire and we was off murdering them all with guns  - also im sure if the spanish owned say wales we would care - well actually maybe not.
so maybe im out the loop but what advantages do we get out of the rock? |
The question also has to be asked: What would spain get out of it if they had it back now? Probably about as much as we get from keeping it. Nothing much of anything really I suppose. So we might as well leave it as it is and not offend the people who have been living there for centuries - the Gibraltans (who should decide their own destiny).
I think it has become an overblown spanish political hot paella and it is now very fashionable (and voteworthy) to want to claim the rock back. Just like the Falklands issue in a way.