Nulli Expugnabilis Hosti

I never cease to be amazed at the sheer illiteracy of Left and Right alike on numerous matters, including practically anything to do with the history of the Labour Movement, about which hardly anyone seems to know anything, although everyone seems to think that they do.

The issue of Gibraltar falls in no small measure within this category. The Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party was founded out of the trade union movement, and specifically out of the T&G, in order to secure for the British workers of Gibraltar the same pay and conditions enjoyed by other British workers.

Under Joe Bossano, first elected for the Integration With Britain Party, it won the 1992 Election with 72 per cent of the vote under the slogan, “Give Spain No Hope”, which was not at all what the Major Government wanted to hear.

To support a foreign interest against a British one, as so many of what laughably purports to be the Left would wish to do and as so many on the Right would expect the Left to do, would be to descend to the level of Margaret Thatcher, with her Single European Act, her Anglo-Irish Agreement, her refusal to recognise the Muzorewa Government while she held out for the Soviet-backed Nkomo as if  he would have been any better than Mugabe, and her open invitation to Argentina to move into the Falkland Islands that she could not at that point locate on a map.