AG:
Another couple of words for you to look up in your Children's Dictionary:
Humour. .Joke
I was inferring that there was nothing like such a pressing UK 'interest' in either Ireland nor Gibraltar - though in fact, I don't think that either is necessarily being 'sold down the river' and I believe that there is a recognition in Government as to why this should not happen.
There! But Monkeys and Potatoes was at least funny!