As soon as the Governor received his instructions from London 24 hours after Sunday’s incursion incident he confirmed what he had been instructed to inform the natives in Gibraltar that the totally blatant incursion on the east side area of the Rock in BGTW during the early part of Sunday evening by a Spanish state military vessel the warship Tornado P44 was not an incursion at all, but a collective mirage by the whole of Gibraltar except by the Governor and those diplomatic and political morons in London who are heading the UK’s pathetic Brexit negotiation efforts.
Not only was the incident an incursion but also the Spanish vessel took executive action ordering vessels out in the local eastern anchorage to leave as they were in Spanish waters.
Certainly, at the time, and those in the military lookout surveillance installations had no problem spotting an illegal incursion when they see one, as the Royal Navy’s Gibraltar Squadron despatched two vessels, HMS Scimitar and the inflatable-hulled boat with instructions to shadow the Spanish vessel.
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