My most jingoistic hackles rise whenever I see that the pesky Spanish are trying to negate the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) by which, with the agreement of everybody who was anybody at the time, Gibraltar was granted to GB in perpetuity, together with Minorca, Newfoundland and St Kitts thrown in for good measure. Not long after there was a bit of a scrap over Minorca and GB gave it up. Fair enough. Newfoundland of course was discovered by Vikings yonks before and should be returned to them but nobody can be bothered to argue about it.
What I don’t get is why Spain doesn’t tell the French they want to negate the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) under whose terms bits of Catalonia west of Perpignan were parcelled out. Surely it’s all Spanish land really – using the same arguments employed to claim Gibraltar?
What say you, cherished reader? Am I missing something here?
Boadicea's Chariot 
Morocco might want to get in on the act too, about Ceuta and Melila. Or Portugal might want to discuss Olivença. Spain really has a lot of vulnerable points.
If the Spanish are trying to abrogate the Treaty of Utrecht, they won’t mind if we abrogate the Treaty of Lisbon, will they?
Ah, yes, Spain. The Basques are quiet but that does not mean they will be in the Spanish union through thick or thin, Catalonia is chafing under Madrid’s demands, Galicia would rather be a part of Portugal than Spain and they worry about Gibraltar. Arguably the Western European country most vulnerable to implosion, Spain really should mind what it has more than focus on what it doesn’t. It’s a bit like Argentina, really — an unstable basket case unable to take care of what it has always banging on about a sliver of land with a population comprising people who would rather eat their eye balls than be ruled by them.
There is excellent food in Galicia so I, for one, would welcome them into the red, green and gold fold. Meanwhile can we talk to the lithperth about Ceuta?
OZ
As my friend Jay Clifton (Cherokee) might say, “What treaty has the white man ever honored?”
As Crazy Horse (I think) said “The white man spoke but one truth, they said they would take our land and they took it”
FEEG, akshully Spain doesn’t wish to ‘abrogate’ it which would involve consultation with other intersted parties. As with Argentina their action is entirely diversionary and precipitate.
Agree with 7, wonderful how all these countries get on their hind legs immediately things aren’t going to well at home.
I wonder when Spain is going to want back Mexico and California? Rather think they might skip their Central American ex holdings and just go for California!
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