Dastardly Dago Deceit Disgrace

Is there no diplomacy in Brussels? Despite the weakness of their negotiating position, the farcical disarray of their politics and the fact that they just keep on losing wars, the malignant cabal of Nazi-style queue-jumpers has been guilty of tactless language over Gibraltar. A footnote in a document dealing with the minor matter of British citizens' freedom of movement describes the British overseas territory as a "colony of the British crown", despite the fact that it only became a crown colony in 1830. Admittedly this is the year in which the modern Conservative Party has much of its spiritual home; but Gibraltar's status has been re-booted twice in British law since the Golden Age of Thatcher, and Her Majesty's Government is, as usual, squealing and foaming with righteous indignation at the Euro-wogs' refusal to keep up with the mainland. After all, how can they ever give Winston Churchill his due as winner of the Second World War and liberator of Spain from Franco's fascism if they can't even remember who won the War of the Spanish Succession?