Gibraltar Betrayed.

It is not just Crumbling Spires which regards the recent deal between the UK and Spain over Gibraltar as sell-out of the Rock's sovereignty by the ever-treacherous Foreign Office. Keith Azopardi, leader of the Progressive Democracy Party opposition knows full well what is going on and that Chief Minister Peter Caruana has been misleading the population. Panorama reports,

On Thursday night at the Chamber of Commerce Dinner Mr Caruana clearly stated that Gibraltarians flying to Spain would not have to go through Spanish Passport Controls either leaving Gibraltar on route to say Madrid or returning to Gibraltar from a Spanish airport.
The next day he contradicted it, saying in a television phone-in when he accepted that on route to Madrid or Barcelona a Gibraltarian leaving Gibraltar will be subjected to Spanish controls both on route to the plane and immediately after landing.
“The bottom line is that a Gibraltarian flying from what is meant to be his Airport to Spain is being checked by a Spanish Official and when he returns home from Spain to his home airport he is being checked by a Spanish official before reaching Gibraltar officials," says the [PDP] statement.
What happens if a Gibraltarian refuses to show his passport to the Spanish Authorities when he lands? Will he be able to come home? Will he be refused entry within his own airport? Will he be arrested, and if so by which authority? Can he be arrested by the Gibraltar Police for not showing his passport in Gibraltar to a Spanish official?” said the PDP.

On past form, the answer is that Spanish will do whatever they like and the British government will meekly accept it.

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