With the Spanish foreign minister Margallo continuing with his attacks against Gibraltar, their Prime Minister Rajoy has joined the anti-Gibraltar chorus.
Rajoy was addressing a meeting in the province of Jaen when someone in the audience shouted: 'Gibraltar espanol.'
Rajoy's speech was not essentially about Gibraltar, but given the prompting from the audience, he remarked: We're on it, we're on it.
What he must have meant was that they are 'at it', asking the UK to open sovereignty talks under the Brussels Agreement, which was recently described by chief minister Fabian Picardo as being 'dead and buried.'
But given the Franco-style events at the 'frontier' there are people who are asking if he also meant that they are also taking action at the frontier.
But prime minister David Cameron has made it clear that there will be no talks unless the Gibraltarians so decide. Further, any deal must be sanctioned by the people of Gibraltar.
For his part, Margallo again referred to Gibraltar in a Spanish radio interview yesterday. He said that Gibraltar was an issue he would not forget about.
He has recalled that when he stepped into the foreign ministry on being appointed he found three letters between Jack Straw and Miguel Angel Moratinos, the prevoious foreign secretaries. In the last letter, made it plain that under no circumstances would negotiations be initiated over the sovereignty of Gibraltar without the consent of Gibraltar.
For Margallo, who appears to be immersed in the past, this is contrary to what the Brussels Agreement and the UN says.
It could well be that they have not learnt from the failed policies in the past, when the Spanish government put the pressure on Gibraltar to try and force its people to do what they did not want to.
Margallo also appears to be concerned that Picardo should have said recently that Gibraltar is a nation.
Why should that surprise him? Gibraltarians have been saying so for many years that Gibraltar is a nation, our homeland.
06-03-12
Panorama Gibraltar
