Spanish Naval Vessels, Enter British Territorial Waters.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247487/Spanish-accused-act-war-Gibraltar-naval-vessels-enter-waters-The-Rock.html

Never mind Syria, shouldn't the Government now be looking closer to home?

[mrs_overall]

Right, that is it, I now refuse to cook any more paella

[emmie]

quick strike up the guns, let's go and have another war, that would at least take care of the over crowding on our little island.

[emmie]

who do you reckon would fight for us, seeing how many people live here from endless foreign ports...

[sp1814]

em10

Good Lord!

[Bazile]

They have not forgiven maggie , have they .

[jake-the-peg]

So we're at war with Spain then are we?

What about this case?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6484279.stm

Totally different I suppose

[ichkeria]

What were these Spanish naval vessels actually doing, do we know?
Plainly they shouldn't have been there but were they actually spoiling for a military conflict over a stick of rock infested with apes

[anotheoldgit]

Yes Em they would leave like rats leaving a ship.

Even so the question would also have to be asked, have we another Drake or even a Nelson?

[sandyRoe]

Has anybody heard Drake's Drum sound?

[anotheoldgit]

Too cold to be playing bowls.

[McMouse]

Spain is a fellow member of NATO and it's very unlikely we'll go to war with them.

[sandyRoe]

They wouldn't want to go to all the trouble of interning all the exPats.

[Zeuhl]

//have we another Drake or even a Nelson? //

why the doubt aog?

do you think our naval efforts have been unremarkable since 1805?

[sunny-dave]

"Sqad the internee" ... the mind boggles Sandy :-)

[sandyRoe]

By day he would play the role of the self sacrificing doctor caring for all the other internees but at night he'd be organizing the digging a tunnel from the island to France and freedom.

[emmie]

don't you bet on it, he will undoubtedly join who ever is likely to win, and that ain't necessarily us.

[emmie]

actually i would send Prince Philip to sort this out, he looks like a man in need of a war.

[Zeuhl]

Perhaps we could reciprocate.

Send a few ships to the north african territories Spain occupies?

Or blockade The Canaries on behalf of the Moroccans?

[jake-the-peg]

Well one European Naval ship enters European waters

Big deal

[DTCwordfan]

We could send them all the Paeds in exchange.....