Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "EU calls Gibraltar a ‘colony of the British Crown’ | Euronews Tonight" video.

  1. I assume that Gibraltar has the same stability as the Basque and Catalan regions of Spain.
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  2. I am so glad our parliament rejected the backstop in the brexit agreement. It was clearly a precursor to an EU blackmail attempt.
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  3. What do the French call the non mainland territories under their control?
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  4.  @alwoo5645  glad we agree, no matter what the French like to call them, they are remnants of the French colonial empire.
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  5. Oh!, so this is an example of EU hypocrisy.
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  6.  @donquixote5912  I think you have mistaken culture differences for a superiority complex. We have similar feeling about the French and the Germans. Both seem to want to tell us what to do and what is in our best interests. The French give advice whether we like it or not and have not asked for it. The Germans simply issue orders and expect compliance. Both result in the UK population responding with belligerent resistance. To use the common vernacular, we dig in our heels and say No, but maybe in a less polite manner than I wish to post. We resent being told we got it wrong. It is not the intended people who have made mistakes, it is successive UK governments. Before you say the UK people voted for them, it is important to understand that in most cases the UK people are presented with a Hobson's choice, between two parties that really only represent the vested self interests of themselves and an elite few. One of the reasons for brexit is the wish to throw a spanner into to the plans of the elite, mainly in the UK, but also in the EU. We do not really distinguish between the elite who control the EU and our local corrupt government and with good reason. Those who control the EU are the same kind of animal, but on steroids. We know the UK is undemocratic, the house of lords is a feudal joke, but at least there are elections which exercise some control over our politicians. Similar levels of control are completely missing from the EU, partly because of the dilution that results from the size of the electorate. Better to have a limited voice in a population of 66 million, than a even smaller voice in a population of 502 million. Such a dilution is bad, but the EU is run like a fascist plutocracy, cloaking itsself in benign socialism. The government does not listen it dictates. In a "we know best fashion". Like all incompetent corrupt governments, it clearly does not know best and covers it's mistakes with obfuscation, denial and propaganda. The conclusion is: the EU IS ARROGANT.
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  7.  Social Gadfly and who are you to judge my comments. If it is rubbish, why did so many UK MPs reach the same conclusion? Are you an amateur denier of EU duplicity or are you part of the EU propaganda machine? On thinking about it, you are just a misguided troll. A fool who cannot see the EU for what it is.
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  8.  The gorgeous gael  why should we cry, you are doing exactly what we expected you to do. This is just be EU stamping its feet in anger. Get use to it, we are leaving your corrupt protection racket.
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  9.  @alwoo5645  the people of Gibraltar voted by 99% to remain British, can you blame them when the alternative is Spanish control.
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  10.  @5888max  you are surely not including the EU as a respectable source. Exactly how are French and Spanish overseas territories classified? Interesting that the EU fails to respect the will of the people of these territories and there right to self determination. Not really surprising given the way it allows Spain to treat the basque and Catalan regions.
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  11.  @donquixote5912  do you really think that Spain would allow the UK to leave the backstop customs union without first extracting concessions on the status of Gibraltar. It is obvious that the backstop provides a mechanism to blackmail the UK government. Spain threatened to veto Mrs May's brexit agreement, then it realised that this was not really a threat and was something of an own goal for the EU. I imagine that some senior eurocrat had a quiet word with the Spanish representative and explained the nature of the trap and told Spain to by the time. The a film of the EU today has just confirmed the danger to anyone in the UK parliament who had doubts about the matter and believe the EU story that the backstop was as bad for the EU as it most definitely is for the UK.
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  12. Shame the people people of NI voted not to leave the UK.
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  13.  The gorgeous gael  to escape a burning building, a window is as good an exit as the fire exit.
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  14.  Social Gadfly  wrong again, but then you make a habit of it. Saying nothing but vague insults. The problem is that the EU leeches do not like it when their own rules and directives are used against them. We are leaving under article 50, its allowed under EU rules. Bye bye.
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  15.  @jeremymerrifield7244 Oh!, I see your confusion, it wasn't the "UK" who put in the backstop, it was Mrs May and a few of her advisers who put in the backstop in the agreement, neither the UK parliament or the people of the UK were consulted on the matter. It's possible that Mrs May didn't have her glasses with her on that day and failed to read the small print about "no way out".
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