On
this occasion I think my old colleague the Europa Sur’s editor is ill informed
in http://www.europasur.es/article/opinion/2244982/bendito/brexit.html.
No
doubt the person who described Sr Margallo’s comment at an academic seminar
summer 15 to Mr Picardo was the same who told me. According to this Spaniard,
asked in a private session, what he would do after a Brexit, Sr Margallo said
he would join his good friend Sr Landaluce (not present at the seminar) for a
cheers and at 6 pm that evening go down with him to La Linea and close the
border. It may have been tongue in cheek, or apocryphal in the mouth of the
Spanish teller, but all the evidence is that it reflects Sr Margallo’s bottom
line. Sr Grimaldi’s relishing of a Brexit
- despite the damage to Europe -
underestimates Gibraltar and its people. It also reflects a most Hobbesian
vision of the world - that people
thinking as he appears to require the EU
to stop them being, I paraphrase, greatly tongue in cheek, “nasty, brutish and
short”.
