Where Conservative activists are concerned, then the ascending order of priorities is Scotland (of which many of them actively want rid), Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, and the Falkland Islands.
They have, by the way, no idea that there are British Overseas Territories other than Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands, just as they have no idea that there are Commonwealth Realms other than Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
But to British politicians of any seniority in any party this side of a Corbyn Government, then anywhere and anyone can, in principle, be thrown under the bus.
Scotland or Northern Ireland, Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands, anywhere or anyone.
Nobody in England really wants any of them, but there was a war over the Falklands in easy living memory so Thatcher-worshippers get quite worked up about them. She's dead now though, so that won't last much longer.
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