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The EU's True Nature Is Revealed

The EU is desperately and pathetically trying to cling to Gibraltar as the UK leaves the union. Even though Gibraltar has been exclusively British for over 300 years, Spain and the EU are now attempting to claim the land. This illustrates how the EU truly thinks. They put on a happy persona, saying that they are not an empire that sucks the sovereignty out of every place that they touch, yet when push comes to shove, they act exactly like such an empire.

The Spanish government, some of the biggest hypocrites on in the Western world, think that they should automatically own Gibraltar because it is "touching" Spain and not the rest of the UK (which is like saying that Alaska is Canadian because it is "touching" Canada and not the rest of the US)...yet they themselves have two enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, which are "touching" Morocco and not the rest of Spain. Now THAT is the height of hypocrisy. I don't know how some people got the idea into their heads that every country has to be "contiguous". Also, Gibraltar has complete control over its own matters, except for "defence and foreign relations", and they want to stay British.

Hmm... This reminds me a bit of another Spanish-speaking country that in 1982 also believed that its "proximity" to a completely British land that wanted to remain British gave it authority to simply claim it as their own. Do you remember how that turned out?

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4370768/Gibraltar-not-going-political-pawn-Brexit.html
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