The Government of Gibraltar shows its chest with the Tireless: “It is armed...

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The Government of Fabian Picardo is excited about the arrival of the HMS Tireless to its port. The ship had not docked at the Rock since last summer, in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with Spain. Now, when relations were calmer, the colony stuck out its chest and warned: the nuclear submarine “is armed to the teeth.” According to the official Gibraltarian press, the Royal Navy crew deployed , at the time of docking at the port, the nuclear submarine's machine guns . The crew members were greeted by dock workers, who were awaiting their arrival. This action has served the Rock's media to ensure that the ship "is armed to the teeth." According to its technical specifications, the Tireless has 5 533-millimeter torpedo tubes; Spearfish torpedoes (originally Tigerfish), with 20 reloads; UGM-84 Harpoonadapted for underwater launch; and UGM-109 Tamahawk , tooadapted for underwater launch. As statedEl Confidencial Digital , the submarine arrived in Gibraltar at 11 a.m. on Monday, ending a journey that began a week ago at the English base in Plymouth. The Government of Fabian Picardo has been informed at all times of the details of the trip, and had everything prepared for the ship to dock . Official spokespersons for the Rock Executive have explained that the arrival of HMS Tireless responds to a “routine operational visit.” The Royal Navy, for its part, has not officially confirmed the reason for the operation . However, another 'sister' submarine has left Great Britain for a mission that will last seven months.

With the return of 'HMS Tireless' there are eight submarines that have passed through the colony since last May.Since the end of the year, Artur Mas has been requesting, through emissaries from the Generalitat who are heading to La Moncloa, a meeting with Mariano  Phone Number List Rajoy, with the aim of negotiating the conditions for holding the independence referendum in Catalonia. The response from the Presidency of the Government has always been the same: there will only be a meeting between both leaders to talk about a new regional financing model. As El Confidencial Digital has learned , from sources close to La Moncloa, the first proposals to hold a meeting reached the Presidency last November, just a few weeks before Artur Mas announced the date, November 9, and the questions that the Generalitat has approved for the consultation. The successive emissaries sent from Barcelona warned that the 'president' was already negotiating with the political forces of Catalonia the details of the referendum, and also insisted that these conversations should also be held between both governments. However, from Moncloa the response has systematically been: “There is nothing to agree” about a possible independence process. “You cannot negotiate something unconstitutional” The initial offensive of the Generalitat was not stopped by the first negative responses. In fact, after Artur Mas announced the holding of the consultation on November 9, 2014, representatives of the regional executive once again conveyed to Mariano Rajoy's team their president's interest in arranging a private meeting.



This is also confirmed to ECD by senior CiU officials, who nevertheless recognize the difficulties they have been encountering in opening a negotiation path with Moncloa. The aforementioned sources assure that Mas expected Rajoy to accept a meeting coinciding with the parliamentary processing of the draft bill in Congress to hold the consultation . The idea of ​​the Catalan leader is that this meeting be held next March . However, "we have always received evasions from the Government." From Moncloa they explain that “it is impossible to negotiate something that is unconstitutional.” In that sense, they assure that the Generalitat's interpretation of article 150.2 of the Magna Carta is incorrect, since " the sovereignty of the Spanish people cannot be delegated to decide their future in an autonomous community ." The Government will offer Mas a new financing model in the summer The government sources consulted by this confidentiality assure that there will not be any Rajoy-Mas meeting in the coming months, neither to talk about the independence consultation nor for any other matter. However, they do point to the possibility that the president will summon the Catalan leader “around the month of June”, but to talk about the new regional financing model . Mariano Rajoy's team assumes that Catalonia's sovereignty challenge "will deflate" when Artur Mas becomes aware that the State will never accept the referendum, and needs to look for an "escape route." The Government is willing to provide this avenue, through reaching a better fiscal distribution for Catalonia, as long as the 'president' "resigns from the consultation and is willing to sit down and talk about the economy.