Monday, November 29, 2021 - 09:48

Is sovereignty held in a sausage?

by MARK VIALES
Staunch Brexiteer MPs within the UK House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee used a free-for-all quizzing session with Chief Minister Fabian Picardo to advance Gibraltar-irrelevant agendas.

Last week, Picardo faced questions from an all-Conservative committee that misappropriated Brexit issues affecting Northern Ireland with Gibraltar’s very unique and specific negotiations with Spain and the European Union. Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay asked how the supply of traditional British goods might be affected by a possible arrangement in the future with the European Union regarding imports. However, more than 98% of Gibraltar’s goods enter through the land frontier with Spain and little of it actually comes from the UK, so the real effect on locals is minimal.