Defence Secretary ‘potty’ idea to fire paintballs at Spanish ships to defend Gibraltar

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 Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 11:04

The UK defence secretary has suggested that paintballs should be fired at Spanish ships to defend Gibraltar, which has made news in many media.

This was the grand idea of Gavin Williamson, which has been described as 'potty' in one newspaper. It shows to what extent the MOD is taking seriously Spanish incursions of British Gibraltar territorial waters. Can they be trusted with anything else? 

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson’s plan to scare away Spanish vessels off Gibraltar by using paintballs. 

Mr Williamson made the extraordinary suggestion during a Ministry of Defence meeting as a way to prevent the growing number of Spanish incursions into British waters, the political editor of The Sun reports.

The defence secretary 'stunned' military top brass with his idea of firing paintballs at the Spanish.

“The chiefs had earlier managed to talk out Mr Williamson from sending a destroyer to Ceuta in tit for tat revenge as a too provocative a move that could lead to conflict.”

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