The UK’s government has now sent a message to those pesky Gibraltarians: “drop dead” . It’s interesting to read that the man responsible for comments referring to Gibraltar having to improve communications with the “rest of Spain” is Britain’s new ‘minister for Europe’. He will, doubtless, fit in well with his counterparts elsewhere in the EU, an organization that has no room for local democracy, patriotism or, for that matter, that other characteristic of Gibraltar so deeply loathed by Brussels – a sense of history.