• by Richard Whitman , Columnist, May 10, 2015

Oops. An advertising agency created a recruitment ad for a government position in Gibraltar which read: “History and precedent play an intrinsic part in this area of European affairs and considered alongside the island’s long-standing sovereignty dispute and the governance issues pertaining to an overseas territory."

As is par for the course when these errors occur, Gibraltar government officials threw the agency under the bus, saying: “The agency had been told to change a number of passages which contained inaccuracies and were provided a corrected copy but they uploaded their original version in error.” 

The UK paper Sunday Express caught the error and wrote: "It wouldn’t need someone with a PhD, however, to know that Gibraltar covers 2.5 sq. miles at the bottom of the Iberian Peninsula. Even the most hapless civil servant might have read about the chaos caused by Spanish frontier guards at Gibraltar’s border with Spain."

Zing!