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Brexit Fever? Whiff Of Jingoism Amid Talk Of Blue Passports And War
Topic Started: Apr 3 2017, 09:58 AM (126 Views)
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http://www.oann.com/brexit-fever-whiff-of-jingoism-amid-talk-of-blue-passports-and-war-2/

April 3, 2017

By Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON (Reuters) – Just days after Prime Minister Theresa May formally served the European Union with divorce papers, a powerful affliction appeared to strike some in Britain: Brexit fever.

Amid a row with Spain and the EU over the status of Gibraltar, a former leader of May’s Conservative party, Michael Howard, even said she would be prepared to go to war to defend the small British territory near Spain’s southern tip.

Beside headlines about war over “the Rock” in Britain’s Euroskeptic press, there was also enthusiasm for an as yet unconfirmed plan to ditch European burgundy passports and return to the sturdy blue British passports of the past.

Readers of the Daily Telegraph were told that while the once mighty Royal Navy was weaker than it used to be, it could still “cripple” Spain if required.

A columnist in The Sun suggested May should threaten to expel all 125,000 Spaniards from Britain and tax Rioja wine unless Madrid backed off over Gibraltar, ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 but which Spain wants back.
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Apr 3 2017, 09:58 AM
http://www.oann.com/brexit-fever-whiff-of-jingoism-amid-talk-of-blue-passports-and-war-2/

April 3, 2017

By Guy Faulconbridge

LONDON (Reuters) – Just days after Prime Minister Theresa May formally served the European Union with divorce papers, a powerful affliction appeared to strike some in Britain: Brexit fever.

Amid a row with Spain and the EU over the status of Gibraltar, a former leader of May’s Conservative party, Michael Howard, even said she would be prepared to go to war to defend the small British territory near Spain’s southern tip.

Beside headlines about war over “the Rock” in Britain’s Euroskeptic press, there was also enthusiasm for an as yet unconfirmed plan to ditch European burgundy passports and return to the sturdy blue British passports of the past.

Readers of the Daily Telegraph were told that while the once mighty Royal Navy was weaker than it used to be, it could still “cripple” Spain if required.

A columnist in The Sun suggested May should threaten to expel all 125,000 Spaniards from Britain and tax Rioja wine unless Madrid backed off over Gibraltar, ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 but which Spain wants back.
Don't worry...!

If those bloody Spaniards try to retake Gibraltar we have come prepared. Trump - May, ... :cheers: . Our secret agent in Spain, from (MI6), is, at this very moment, gathering intelligence on current Spanish military activity, and HAS acquired the battle plan for the attack on Gibraltar. You betcha. Our agent, who goes under the name Hughmac, is working under cover as an ex-pat and supplying valuable intelligence to the British military.

Wait, what?, ...ooops, sorry, shouldn't have done that....

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