{"id":22908,"date":"2019-02-01T22:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T22:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22908"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T10:38:53","slug":"is-gibraltar-a-british-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=22908","title":{"rendered":"Is Gibraltar A British Colony?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Or, \u201cHow to get deliberately angry over something trivial\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brexit is the gift that just keeps on giving. Unfortunately, these gifts are invariably parcels of dog crap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest episode involves the EU\u2019s reference to Gibraltar as a British \u201ccolony\u201d in one of the latest documents<\/a>. The flag-waving tosspots who hold court in this country are up in arms over it. A UK spokesman (well, spokesperson – the BBC probably made sure they spoke to a woman) said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This will not change due to our exit from the EU. All parties should respect the people of Gibraltar’s democratic wish to be British.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a shame the spokesman doesn\u2019t feel quite so strongly about Gibraltar\u2019s democratic wish to remain in the EU. Their result was the first to be declared and was 96% in favour of remaining! I repeat: 96%.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as UK petty semantics goes, Gibraltar is officially a British Overseas Territory. However, up until 1983, even we classified it as a British Crown Colony. Nothing much has changed in Gibraltar\u2019s standing since then, except for the official British term to describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even in the Gibraltar Constitution Order referendum in 2006 the word \u201ccolony\u201d was used. One of the campaign groups at the time issued a press release, stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n[the new constitution]\u2026 is not the act of self-determination which will decolonise us\u2026 [and it]\u2026 is as colonial as its 1964 and 1969 predecessors<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, a British film archive website – which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council – carries old film of Gibraltar<\/a>. What makes it interesting is that the site is called Colonial Film (Moving Images of the British Empire). <\/strong>So people still reckon Gibraltar isn\u2019t a colony?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t matter what you call it, anyway. It\u2019s still the same piece of land it ever was, almost wholly self-governed, and still pissing Spain off just by being there. And it is still as much a colony as it ever was (or wasn\u2019t), albeit one which has much more reason to remain in the EU due to its location, which voted with a 96% majority to do so, and which has had that strong desire trampled underfoot thanks to flag-waving morons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n