Maybe a few of you could do with a little bit of travelling, or broadening your reading material?
All this horse manure about "diverting the population's attention" is pure drivel.
The Spanish people are mightily p1ssed off at the moment, but with the state of their economy and with the people they perceive to have shafted them (USA, Germany, all the banks, et al). They could not give a FF about Gib so all this is going right over their heads.
The Spanish government have kicked off over Gib because the Gibraltar government raised the ante. The splutter and bluster coming out of No 10 is quite embarrassing and will actually play well the Spanish, if indeed, their government is looking for diversion. Nothing the spanish like more than a barrel load of empty threats.
Ironically, if No 10 want to get serious they have the wherewithal to kick the Spanish right where it hurts by attacking the tourism traffic from the UK.
I doubt it could be done legally within the EU, but the mere threat that the UK could go down the tit for tat route and levy up on tourist traffic would capture the attention of the Spanish tourist industry faster than you can say Torremolinos.
Last edited by The Old Fat One; 12th Aug 2013 at 13:32.