Gibraltar is quite clearly a part of Spain,

Gibraltar is quite clearly a part of Spain, just as surely as the Falkland Islands are a part of Argentina, and that it therefore should be governed by Spain. Sorted.
However, for Britain, fixing the Gibraltar problem is not that simple. And it isn’t because the British political and cultural elites hold a candle for the 30,000 inhabitants of this rock in the Mediterranean. On the contrary, these Union Jack-waving proud Brits are an eyesore for the modern, cosmopolitan rulers and opinion-formers here in Blighty, who snootily look at Gibraltarians as an ugly reminder of an old-world patriotism that we’re all supposed to have moved beyond.
There is a barely concealed contempt in the way modern British politicians and commentators discuss Gibraltar. Jack Straw, when he was foreign secretary, could hardly disguise his disdain for these rock-dwellers and their apparently weird desire to remain British. After all, New Labour was redefining Britishness as something pluralistic and open-ended, as a post-Union Jack, post-traditionalist “gathering of countless different races and communities”, in Robin Cook’s words – so who were these peculiar people hundreds of miles away so super-keen to be Officially British?
Journalists write about how strange it is that, at a time when “many Britons are unsure about what they have to feel patriotic about”, there exists this small community of “True Brits” overseas. The New Statesman once sneered about the “prejudices” of Gibraltarians, describing their struggle to remain part of Britain against Spain’s desire to win back the Rock as “the most idiotic conflict on the planet”. Apparently Gibraltar shows the extent to which “national pride contaminates the mental processes”.

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