Only a couple days after stating the government’s attempt to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, Teresa May’s government says it is prepared to go to war to defend Gibraltar’s sovereignty.

Spain dropped its opposition to Scottish independence (Spain opposed it on the grounds it might encourage Spanish regions to do the same) to seek entrance into the EU.

Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly in the Brexit referendum to remain in the EU.

This is exactly the sort of thing the EU was intended to eliminate (warfare between European nations).

Spain has abandoned plans to stop an independent Scotland from joining the EU amid an escalating row with Britain over the future of 
Gibraltar.

Alfonso Dastis, the Spanish foreign minister, said his Government will not block a future Scottish EU membership bid, giving a boost to Nicola Sturgeon.

It came as Sir Michael 
Fallon, the Defence Secretary, suggetsed that Britain is ready to go to war to defend the sovereignty of Gibraltar. He vowed to go “all the way” to protect the territory.

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