This latest Labour sovereignty sell-out is so bad, they had to bury it under Rachel from Accounts
Facts4EU shows how four far-left politicians destroyed yet more UK territory in secret deal
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The Rock crumbles under open borders assault and we reveal more than they wanted you to know
Yesterday while all newsrooms’ attentions were on the Chancellor’s spending review, the Government announced yet another major giveaway over UK sovereignty.
Not content with surrendering access to the UK’s 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone to the EU for nothing in return, and then actually paying a country billions to take a vital strategic asset by surrendering sovereign UK territory, the Government has now agreed to have armed officers of a foreign power resident on UK sovereign territory – territory which includes a UK military base.
In future, UK citizens will require permission from these foreign officers to step off a plane from the UK and pass through customs onto another part of UK territory. This act alone surrenders British sovereignty.
Brexit Facts4EU Advisory Note
This report is unusual for Facts4EU in that it presents the sparse facts released by both sides yesterday but then goes on to predict further details with as much certainty as our experience provides. We will be ‘filling in the gaps’ which we believe will inevitably emerge in the coming weeks and months. Our prediction is that these will be published by the Labour government on the eve of Parliamentary recess or even immediately after it has started.
The wording of the deal – and the Facts4EU translation
We wish we could confirm a great deal more than we are able to, but we can only start with the 507 words contained in the vague joint communique from the EU Commission and the UK government. Below is what it says on the key aspects of the deal, interspersed with Facts4EU’s interpretation based on nearly 10 years of studying previous, similar examples.
“Building on significant progress achieved in the previous political meetings in 2024 and on intensive work of the negotiating teams since then to solve outstanding issues, today's discussions resulted in a conclusive political agreement on the core aspects of the future Agreement between the EU and the UK in respect of Gibraltar. The future Agreement is without prejudice to the respective legal positions of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to sovereignty and jurisdiction.”
Translation: Everything has been agreed but they will not tell us the details. In Brussels, Mr Sefcovic told the media that the treaty would be concluded swiftly, adding that it covered “every little detail”. If that is the case, it would be helpful to see every one of the ‘little details’. According to Gibraltar TV yesterday, the conclusion of the treaty merely involved some finalisation and the translation into all the EU’s official languages.
“In the area of persons, the Parties agreed to establish dual Gibraltar and Schengen border checks at Gibraltar port and airport – to be carried out in full cooperation between the EU and UK/Gibraltar authorities, removing all checks at the crossing point between Gibraltar and La Linea for the many thousands of people who travel across daily in both directions. For the EU, full Schengen checks will be carried out by Spain.”
Translation: This is not a case of “dual Gibraltar and Schengen border checks”, which sounds egalitarian. This refers to an additional level of border checks within the UK’s territory of Gibraltar itself. It is a ‘border’ only in the sense it involves transferring by air or by sea. Where the persons involved hold British passports they would usually have been waved through. There can be no sovereignty when a foreign power bases its officers on British soil and determine who is allowed to pass at the airport and at the port facilities.
Credit: GTV
“All of this is exactly as it says in the NYE framework agreement,” says Chief Minister Picardo
Previous negotiations have meant armed Spanish police officers present and inspecting the passports of British people arriving from the UK and deciding whether to let them through onto UK soil. The UK Labour government has tried to suggest this is no different to (unarmed) French officials inspecting passports at London St Pancras station for the Eurostar trip to France. This is something we disagree with, but that is not a question for now. In that case it was administratively useful to the French.
Secondly and most importantly, this Eurostar system involves a border between the UK and France. In Gibraltar’s case it is a border between one part of the UK and another part of the UK. There is simply no comparison.
Former Conservative Brexit Minister:
"Little wonder British voters are increasingly turning to Reform UK as the party most likely to put Britain and the British national interest first."
“Gibraltar is British sovereign territory. It has been for over 300 years, and its status is confirmed by international treaty.
“This so-called deal calls that status into question. It is incompatible with sovereignty that British citizens should be required to show their passports to foreign border officials before being allowed entry to their own territory.”
“The deal is in truth a surrender; the latest of a series of surrenders by a government of surrender monkeys. It is what one has come to expect from this dreadful Labour administration.
“But let's not forget that it was the Conservatives, during David Cameron's stint as Foreign Secretary, who first came up with this proposal. Cameron was heavily criticised for it when he appeared before the European Scrutiny Committee, of which I was a member. The Tories, sadly, are just as blameworthy as Labour.
“Put simply, both of the old parties have compromised British sovereignty in arriving at this shameful arrangement. It is little wonder, therefore, that British voters are increasingly turning to Reform UK as the party most likely to put Britain and the British national interest first.”
- The Rt Hon David Jones, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 12 June 2025
Almost one year ago, then Foreign Secretary and former PM David Cameron who campaigned fervently to remain in the EU, reached what he thought was an agreement. Below is what the Spanish said at the time.
Here is the recent history that tells us what we need to know
The Rock of Gibraltar sits at the gateway to the entire Mediterranean. It is a key British strategic asset, with its naval base, air base, and key UKSIGINT intelligence centre. Its people have consistently voted overwhelmingly (by more than 98%) to remain British.
On Thursday 16 May 2024, EU Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares, and UK Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron, together with the Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo, met in Brussels to discuss the future of Gibraltar.
This was the second meeting in this format, with both sides claiming “important breakthroughs and additional areas of agreement”. Here is the joint statement.
“All sides are reassured that the agreement is getting closer and will work closely and rapidly on outstanding areas towards an overall EU-UK agreement.
“The meeting reaffirmed their shared commitment to concluding an EU-UK Agreement to bring confidence, legal certainty and stability to the lives and livelihoods of the people of the whole region, by protecting and improving economy and trade, mobility, environment and social wellbeing, while safeguarding all parties’ legal positions. They all agreed to remain in close and constant contact.”
- Joint statement, UK FCDO and EU Commission, 16 May 2024
So what did the Spanish do next?
This is where it got tricky for the Remainer Lord Cameron. After seven hours of talks on Thursday 16 May, these secretive negotiations were naturally springing leaks.
On Thursday in the Spanish senate, the Spanish Government said it expected armed uniformed officers of the Policia Nacional to play a direct role in implementing Schengen immigration controls at Gibraltar’s airport and maritime entry points. This meant uniformed and armed Spanish officers on British soil, policing the entry of British citizens.
The Spanish government then issued a statement
“The Policia Nacional must carry out border controls. If Frontex agents are present, their role should be to support and complement the Policia Nacional.
“Therefore, the responsibility for conducting border inspections lies with the Policia Nacional, with Frontex serving an auxiliary function.”
- Spanish government statement, 22 May 2024
We doubt this position will have changed. This is despite the FCDO rapidly having to send out a seperate statement on the matter yesterday, making all kinds of carefully-worded claims that sovereignty was not being ceded.
British aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth © MoD - click to enlarge
Back to the present day
“In the area of goods, the Parties agreed on the principles underpinning the future customs union between the EU and Gibraltar, providing for strong cooperation between the respective customs authorities and removing checks on goods. There is also agreement on the principles of indirect taxation to be applied in Gibraltar, including on tobacco – that will avoid distortions and contribute to the prosperity of the whole region.
“Other important areas of the future EU-UK Agreement include level playing field commitments on State aid, taxation, labour, environment, trade and sustainable development, anti-money laundering, and transport – including the airport; the rights of frontier workers and social security coordination. Specific cooperation will also be included in environmental matters. The creation of an appropriate financial mechanism to promote cohesion and support training and employment in the region has also been agreed.”
This appears to mean Gibraltar will be under EU law, directives, and regulations. The last sentence also means that the UK will be expected to pay for these arrangements.
Just as with the ‘agreements’ struck by Sir Keir at his ‘Reset Summit’, the full impact will not be known until the dust has settled and the text is released – or at least that is what everyone involved hopes.
“Gibraltar has been British by international Treaty for 300 years. Spain has no case in international law to annex it. Its people have voted overwhelmingly in two referendums to remain British.
“Gibraltar is a key UK naval and aviation base which has played a crucial part in past wars. The airport and naval base must remain sovereign territory policed by UK personnel. Do not give it away. Do not humiliate us again.”
- The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood, commenting to Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org, 12 June 2025
The four far-left Socialist Labour Politicians involved
A rare congruence appears when looking at the parties involved in this agreement
Credit: Picardo X.com
- David Lammy, UK Foreign Secretary, far-left, the Labour Party
- Fabian Picardo, Gibraltarian Chief Minister, Socialist Labour Party
- José Manuel Albares, Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Socialist Workers Party
- Maroš Šefčovič, EU Commissioner, former Soviet Communist about whom we comment below
The EU Commissioner involved
In 1985 Maroš Šefčovič left his home country, the Soviet puppet state of Czechoslovakia, and headed east to Moscow. In going east to Russia Mr Šefčovič did not suffer the fate of hundreds of his fellow countrymen and women who had been killed attempting to cross the border in the opposite direction, to the West.
The EU Vice President spent five years in Moscow, at the elite university called the ‘Moscow State Institute of International Relations’.
Two years after Maroš Šefčovič's arrival he submitted his application for formal membership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party (KSČ). In those days Party membership was a serious accolade and was not granted to everyone.
Fortunately the National Archive in Prague holds records of such people and to the right is a copy of his successful application. (Credit: Dennik / Národní archiv)
At the time he lived there, a certain Vladimir Putin had just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the KGB. He was then sent to East Germany to work with the hated Stasi secret police of that despotic regime.
The Prague Spring and the ‘Velvet Revolution’
In the mid-1960s Czechoslovakia had slowly been attempting to liberalise. In August 1968 this ‘Prague Spring’ was brutally crushed by Moscow, when tanks and some 500,000 troops from the Warsaw Pact invaded and the Soviet Union was able to demolish the Dubcek government and bolster the power of the hardline KSČ, of which Maroš Šefčovič was a member.
At the time that Maroš Šefčovič left for Moscow the brutal suppression of the flowerings of a liberal society (including many deaths as a result) in his home country were of course completely fresh in the minds of its citizens.
This did not deter Mr Šefčovič on his journey to become more immersed in the study of Marxism-Leninism in the capital city of the country which was the author of the violence and oppression.
The writing was finally on the (Berlin) wall for the EU’s now Vice President
It was only in 1990, following the fall of the Soviet Union, that Maroš Šefčovič returned to his home country.
Vice President Šefčovič on the Brussels gravy train
Since that time, Maroš Šefčovič has exclusively pursued a career in academia and politics. This career even included a time as Slovak Ambassador to Zimbabwe. He has worked in Brussels since 2004 and has been an EU Commissioner for 14 years.
Facts4EU.Org has been unable to find any evidence that the EU Vice President has ever held a job outside politics or has had any experience whatsoever of business or trade. We even accessed his ‘declaration of interests’ held at the EU Commission in Brussels, and there isn’t one single personal commercial activity, investment, or interest listed.
This is the man who negotiated with Lord Frost and who is now Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency and was Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for the European Green Deal, borrowing hundreds of billions of euros.
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Enough is enough
For the Facts4EU team, this is a surrender too far. The previous surrenders (on fisheries and on Chagos) have in themselves each been wholly unacceptable, and now we have something that literally should have been 'as solid as a rock', where sovereignty has once again been given away.
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[ Sources: Gibraltar TV | Gibraltar Radio | FCDO | EU Commission | Spanish government | The Rt Hon David Jones | The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood | Another anonymous member of the European Scrutiny Committee on 'deep background' ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.
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