Gibraltarians

We take responsibility for our own affairs.

And generation after generation of Gibraltarians have made their wishes known.

Yet, we remain on a list created more than 70 years ago.

Mr.

Well, you basically can't, because, I mean, next door to this as- this assembly area where this is gonna happen before the band and, and the soldiers march the very short distance to, to do the guard mounting directly in front of the Convent, uh, is, uh, is a school, uh, and also an old people's home, uh, and lots of passersby.

You'd have lots of spectators, because this is a sort of spectator sport, uh, for Gibraltarians.

So whatever way you cut it, there would definitely have been a lot of innocent, uh, casualties, men, women, and children.

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It's an extension of being in Gibraltar.

It still feels a bit strange because I don't speak Spanish, so if anything were to happen, I'd be like, not really sure what you're saying, if I were to get pulled over, but I'm trying not to have the... there's a lot of fear mongering going on especially on facebook groups that people seem to just hate spanish and all this other stuff but what i found is they're just normal people like you and i trying to get through life trying to pay their bills look after their family and this fear that we seem to have around spanish police or spanish people are bad or politics are all against us i really don't subscribe to that kind of mentality i just feel that they're all exactly the same people as us but they don't have much say or they might not care so much about all this politics they're just trying to live their life they come to gibraltar every day to make some money and go home again that's it and us here in gibraltar we just want to make our life simple better for our family and then go home I don't really see why we should be hating people because they're from a different country from us even though that they come to Gibraltar every day in their thousands to serve us ultimately they're waiters and to do the jobs that Gibraltarians generally don't want to be doing reception work catering housekeeping these types of roles are generally taken up by Spanish folks so I don't see the conflict.

I don't see why there seems to be a problem with that.

So I don't delve too much into it and I'm loving the open border and I will never get bored of that.

So it is gonna be a difficult game.

But as you rightly say, the energy is a bit different because these are the matches that Gibraltarian fans expect a performance out of the team from.

So it'll be interesting to see how tonight goes.

So the pressure is on.

We're much more sophisticated than that now.

The Gibraltarian is much more sophisticated than that now.

We are British.

We're European.

It was all in this conflict.

You know, you're not taking Gibraltar.

It never mattered what the Gibraltarians thought.

Never mattered.