How Not To Make Friends…
“The BNP would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens. The move would also deprive the UK of a naval base – defended bitterly for more than 300 years – of huge strategic importance. Party leader Nick Griffin, elected as an MEP in June, made the offer at a fascist rally in Madrid last week to suck up to European extremists.” – The Sun
Not a popular position, if true, as far as this blog is concerned for obvious reasons, nor with military types. Perhaps not the most astute bit of domestic politics either, as Gibraltar votes for British EuroMPs and the Spanish electorate doesn’t. Comments on threads about this elsewhere are saying that Nick Griffin was misquoted and also that the Sun article is poorly researched and sourced. It’d be interesting to know the truth.
I’d be interested too ASE. The man’s a fool but a dangerous fool. We have too many people of his ilk in politics.
He probably did say it because it’s all about knowing your audience. With the BNP’s new Euro grouping this will play well with their allies in Spain (across the political spectrum, in fact) and maybe he’s calculating that is worth the loss of Gib’s Euro-election votes. Odd, because I’m fairly sure they campaigned across here in the last Euros (not with this as their policy!) so the votes were obviously worth having then.