Brexit: UK-EU talks continue as Navy boats put on standby
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Four Navy boats get ready to patrol UK fishing waters in event of no deal, as negotiations resume.
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Still cutting off our nose to spite our face, I see.
We have an absolute right to protect our home waters in the same way we have a right to protect our homeland.From 1st Jan foreign trawlers will be invading our territory....
Actually about protecting our sovereignty and livelihoods
Its what people fought for and any other country would protect their own waters.
Its what people fought for and any other country would protect their own waters.
Yep. Fisherman demanding they get sole access to waters despite needing to land their fish in EU ports to be able to make a living.
So you think it is totally acceptable for the French to carry on fishing in UK waters but we get absolutely nothing back in return from the EU.
So who pays the EU subsidies now? Are you prepared to make up the shortfall in funding that uk fishermen received? Or the funds given to actually build the boats in the first place?
https://ieep.eu/uploads/articles/attachments/02c519d9-dfe7-4855-aa07-f47a1e2d32d4/subsidiesreport.pdf?v=63664509689
https://ieep.eu/uploads/articles/attachments/02c519d9-dfe7-4855-aa07-f47a1e2d32d4/subsidiesreport.pdf?v=63664509689
How is patrolling UK interests cutting off nose. It is rather Macron whose nose has become disjointed.
It’s sending exactly the right message.
Are you saying we let the French just come and plunder our seas, taking whatever they want.
Illegally.... I might add.
Any other country would protect their seas and so should we.
Illegally.... I might add.
Any other country would protect their seas and so should we.
I'm sure it is not.
The EU on concessions on aircraft depend on the UK reciprocating on all four concessions.
Planes could be banned from landin in the EU, or overflying it.
The EU on concessions on aircraft depend on the UK reciprocating on all four concessions.
Planes could be banned from landin in the EU, or overflying it.
It's just your typical BBC headline overreaction.
So it's ok for us to waltz into France and walk off with their grapes then?
I totally agree... This was one of the main reasons that I voted to remain. I think we have forgotten one of the main reasons why the EU has evolved over the years since the end of WWII and in my opinion has the major benefit of helping with world stability and maintaining peace... I would suspect that is why Russia and China are becoming more aggressive as we like the USA intend to isolate
So I am sure you let all your neighbours into your property whenever you want to take your things?
If you leave a club you can't expect to use its facilities. That's how it works for ordinary people. The trouble is it doesn't apply to people of Johnson's privileged background. Old Etonians have their old school tie network. The Bullingdon Club would welcome back an old member, especially if he paid for damages to the restaurants they trash. So he just doesn't get that actions have consequences.
If by "club" you mean the single market - lots of countries use it - but are not expected to obey every whim invented by the EU for evermore.We are being attacked for having the nerve to leave the EU cartel...
Does your drivel have any relevance to the story? we are talking about the EU not being allowed to fish in UK water and rightly so.
So the French won't get to eat their day old chicks.
Thank goodness we can leave the club behind
Thank goodness we can leave the club behind
The UK does not want to use the facilities at all, just have a free trade deal like plenty of other independent nations already have. This would be best for the people of the EU and the UK. The problem is if the EU gives the UK this then other states will leave. It's a national protection racket
Absolutely right . . . but why is it then Ok for the EU to fish in our waters? Might that be because we have more lucrative waters and they don't want to have to rely on buying anything from us and being forced to negotiate a trade off. Works both ways, the French Government don't like that and this maybe our only way to get them to agree to any deal that the UK or EU propose.
Nicely balanced comment......Got a chip on both shoulders have we?
Also if you leave a club that club does not have the right to come into your back yard and steal your stuff, it also doesn't have the right to dictate what you can and cant do in your own home.
works both ways, they sill want the same fishing deal . cherry picking
EU want to fish in our waters
EU want to prevent us being competitive despite them not being consistent with their support of companies
EU want to continue to govern with their court
Bit one sided which is why it’s not a negotiation as that takes 2 sides to compromise not one to take and one to give
EU want to prevent us being competitive despite them not being consistent with their support of companies
EU want to continue to govern with their court
Bit one sided which is why it’s not a negotiation as that takes 2 sides to compromise not one to take and one to give
What are you talking about. We have every right to insist on our sovereignty and our fishing rights.
Get over it!
Get over it!
Same for the EU then, we've left their club and are taking our football (fishing rights) home with us. They can't have it both ways.
I wanted to be part of the Bullingdon club, but they said no. I demanded a fair deal but they still said no. Nasty vindictive bullies. I told them they need me more than I need them, but oddly they seem unmoved by that.
Try telling EU fishermen that, mighty one.
And yes, that club can't expect to use your facilities when you leave it either. So they had better get their fishing boats out of our waters!
Perhaps the French trawlers should be redirected to Russian territorial waters. I’m sure they’d receive a warm welcome.
So we should stoop to the level of a Russian response, then. I'm sure that will work wonders for international relations and really bolster our trade prospects...
An excellent point.
We need to protect our waters vigorously by using gunships if necessary.
Thank goodness we are leaving the EU
We need to protect our waters vigorously by using gunships if necessary.
Thank goodness we are leaving the EU
may I suggest that you tell them
Another HYS opened on Brexit! I think everything that can be said has been said. Let's wait until Sunday. My guess is that something will be cobbled together. Too much money at stake.
And whatever that may be it will be rubbish compared to staying in EU.
Here’s hoping!
So you voted leave then?
And have no arguments to back up your case?
And what happens if your guess is wrong?
And have no arguments to back up your case?
And what happens if your guess is wrong?
Gun Boat threat. Have we not been here before with the Cod Wars. They did not turn out well for the UK who turned up chest puffed up with big warships and got a bloody nose from captain Birds Eye. Will they ever learn
Also, we have 4 fisheries boats for three seas. Not great coverage! Perhaps the Icelanders would help us out this time...
Google “turbot wars” for a more recent example. Canadian did actually succeed in protecting fish stocks, eventually, despite EU backing indefensible behaviour.
France is a nuclear lower, bit bigger than Iceland, and we lost to a country of 340,000 there.
I was on fishery protection and do
not recall your version of events we actually were extremely effective
not recall your version of events we actually were extremely effective
Are rejoiners really as dumb as they post? The waters our boats went to in the Cod Wars belonged to Iceland, the 'precedent' set by Iceland is now about to be asserted against the EU. Really, what on earth did rejoiners do to think they were so well educated? Media Studies?
Did that make sense when you wrote it?
In the Cod Wars between the 50s and 70s, all the muesli weavers were so sympathetic to poor little Iceland. And oversaw a devastation of regional fishing industries and communities in the UK which still hasn't been fixed. But now in exactly the same situation, the same or similar people have, for their own frankly evil reasons, a completely opposite stance. Hypocrites.
Haven't you got that the wrong way round? In the Cod Wars, it was the Icelanders asserting their territorial rights, and it turned out fine for them.
We can’t stop a dinghy from crossing the channel.
What are we going to do against an angry French trawling fleet?
Last time there was an incident off Cornwall, our trawlers were rescued by the French navy.
Wait and watch what happens. We’ll be the laughing stock yet again.
What are we going to do against an angry French trawling fleet?
Last time there was an incident off Cornwall, our trawlers were rescued by the French navy.
Wait and watch what happens. We’ll be the laughing stock yet again.
In that case it was British vessels raiding Icelandic waters. Now the boot is on the other foot: we have the absolute right to protect UK waters against fisheries theft. We've become too complacent about maritime security & urgently need to strengthen our maritime border - not just against IUU fishing fleets but also drugs & arms smugglers & people traffickers.
I live in a community reliant on fishing, farming & tourism. I remember the cod wars, & more recent (mostly unreported) scuffles with crabbing boats & trawlers between UK & mainly French fishermen. It's no laughing matter. Boats are equipped with water cannon, many crews carried shotguns & air rifles, most had something like a poleaxe to cut the lines & nets of competitors. Dangerous times.
Iceland would have been a smouldering heap and their trawlers matchwood had the UK flexed her muscles back in the early 70's. The restraint they showed back then is only to their credit. Get real!
Can’t recall gun boats being mentioned previously. All going well then.
Fishery protection vessels, we have had them for years.
BoJo's next speech : We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Some of the boomer leave voters will cack-handedly refer to this as the “Dunkirk spirit”
The headline is typically misleading. Read the full article!
Necessary - simply as the French have no intention of playing by the rules. Boris gets criticised when he does that but somehow the French and the Germans don't.
Unbelievable how some people think
Unbelievable how some people think
I bet there is a lot of eye rolling going on in the Royal Navy too!
Did it need to be explicitly mentioned. You can guarantee that rogue French and Spanish fishermen will be trying to make a point at 0001 on 1 January. Doesn't take a degree in chinese embroidery to work that one out.
Served on RN Fishery Protection boats for many years, and shock horror we had guns ! - of course they were never used in this role.
We even boarded many fishing vessels, every day.
We even escorted to port those that were breaking the rules.
Not sure why people are even reacting to this.
We even boarded many fishing vessels, every day.
We even escorted to port those that were breaking the rules.
Not sure why people are even reacting to this.
Relax, I doubt they will be launching rockets at French fishing boats. The media have to add a bit of drama to the story to add to their Brexit disaster image.
I see, Navy boats are equipped with Xmas trees..
Cue the French sending out their navy - forget them helping to stop refugees
This was always going to happen. How else were we going to protect our fishermen in our waters?
The RN had many more Fishery Protection Boats in the past. Under the "old" EEC they were always having to deal with illegal fishing. I recall Spanish fishermen were quite prominent.
Lets hope they get the opportunity to let loose some firepower and teach the French not to mess with us.
Seems you only have a problem when the UK enforces it's legal rights.
What would you think about other countries doing the same e.g. France?
Cut the hypocrisy.
What would you think about other countries doing the same e.g. France?
Cut the hypocrisy.
They’ll probably end up shooting at each other, just like everyone else in Britain these days!
LOL go where indeed. lucky we have still have four Navy boats tha float.
Since no one else seems to like your sensible suggestion, I agree. Lone voices!
can't see the 'flag waving tory's' being able to do that. it's their England after all.
Speak for yourself
French fishermen have been attacking British boats for years, and that’s long before Brexit was ever thought of.
Bit late to find that out.
Guesz the French will have their patrol boats out in their waters to deter English fishermen.
And now the French will take the UK go court over breach of contract.
Guesz the French will have their patrol boats out in their waters to deter English fishermen.
And now the French will take the UK go court over breach of contract.
No, we voted for the right to collect a reasonable fee from the French, Spanish etc., for accessing our sovereign waters. And to exert controls that will manage the fish stocks currently being decimated by their "hoover boats".
The fishermen did... despite the fact they need access to French ports and EU markets to sell their fish bc we don't eat enough in thecUK for them to earn a living.
If ever they cut of their noses to spite their faces ...
If ever they cut of their noses to spite their faces ...
What war?.......protecting our coastal waters is not an act of war.......The BBC might think it is, but the all right thinking people recognise the need to protect our fishing grounds from those that would illegally fish in them.
As UK waters are, by International law, the UK's, we wouldn't be going to war with French fisherman...they would be going to war with the UK. Regardless, give the French 1 month to apply for licenses to fish in UK waters under specified rulings re net sizes and quotas, and if they choose to ignore licensing either cut their nets and/or impound the trawlers. Perfectly legal
Oh please another scare monger....
It’s not war, it’s enforcing the Law and protecting our sovereignty and our fish.
Get used. To it!
It’s not war, it’s enforcing the Law and protecting our sovereignty and our fish.
Get used. To it!
Did you vote for all the price increases that are coming next year?
French Fishermen shouldn't declare war then should they, nor be encouraged by the likes of you.
Perhaps not, but it's a welcome bonus.
We didn't need to - they've been blocking the channel ports and by extension damaging the UK at the drop of a hat.
I think some people did. I've said from 2016 there is a minority who won't be happy unless we are actually at war.
Well, if they're going to trespass.
We also didn't vote for them to carry on regardless with nothing in return for us. Which is exactly what Macron means by his fair share of the cake.
“we didn't vote to be at war with french fishermen”
We didn’t vote leave to allow the EU to continue to control our fishing waters nor to allow the EU to take most of our fish.
We didn’t vote leave to allow the EU to continue to control our fishing waters nor to allow the EU to take most of our fish.
Embarrassing. The new global Britain. What a clown Boris is, pandering to uk nationalism.
English nationalism
Does this mean there will be supply problems re fish next year? We won’t notice as we are not a fish eating nation. Cod comes from somewhere else.
Exactly.
Hey maybe if dunces over the years had pandered a tiny little more to English Nationalism then this wouldn't have happened in such an extreme and decisive way would it?
You mean protecting what is rightfully ours. Believe you me the French already think they have rights to fish where they like. They would ignore the fact that there is no deal on fishing and carry on regardless. If we sat back and did nothing, is that acceptable?
If your neighbour was threatening to just come into your garden and take your possessions, what would you do?
1) Say, I dont think you should, but I wont do anything
Or
2) Say, You are more than welcome to enter when invited, but if you come in here without my permission and just take my things then I am going to kick the s**t out of you
1) Say, I dont think you should, but I wont do anything
Or
2) Say, You are more than welcome to enter when invited, but if you come in here without my permission and just take my things then I am going to kick the s**t out of you
Nothing worse than a weak and pathetic individual is you td62?
If they want to invade our waters, they should know there will be consequences. Its important we provide this clarity now, rather than once the milk has already been spilt. It is up to the french to decide what they wish to do and cannot complain our stance was ambiguous.
Great. Let's start a war over a few fish.
It's not up to the French, it's up to the EU, on the instructions of 27 member states.
And on fishing, we will have a deal on 1/1/2021 ,wjth Norway, who will sell their carch in the EU, while our fishermen can't.
Clever, or what?
And on fishing, we will have a deal on 1/1/2021 ,wjth Norway, who will sell their carch in the EU, while our fishermen can't.
Clever, or what?
yeah, get Gove to send a stronly worded letter. that should do it.
Bring a couple of Dreadnoughts out of mothballs - that'll put the wind up the French "Fishermen"
The sad unimaginative lives some people live, thinking they are Biggles fighting WW2
The EU is trying to 'impose' some rules on us, so let's accept much worse rules from the WTO.
The brexiteers will never learn.
They are intent on blaming the EU for protecting itself.
Brexiteers - we have left, and the UK now has its sovereignty. The UK can either accept the deal, or walk away. We have a choice.
Stop acting like entitled brats as per the UK Tory ministers, the EU owes us absolutely NOTHING.
If you don't like the deal on offer, walk away. No one is forcing you.
They are intent on blaming the EU for protecting itself.
Brexiteers - we have left, and the UK now has its sovereignty. The UK can either accept the deal, or walk away. We have a choice.
Stop acting like entitled brats as per the UK Tory ministers, the EU owes us absolutely NOTHING.
If you don't like the deal on offer, walk away. No one is forcing you.
EU democratic. WTO not, yet so many decry DICTATORSHIP.
Weird.
Weird.
Its this type of comments that makes Remainers look like a fool. You have no understanding of what the EU is asking and what it means for the UK. If you worked in regulatory compliance like I do you'd see what effect having these EU rules without the ability to influence them would do to our businesses, but then that doesn't matter as long as you can travel to to spain for 2 weeks a year
IF Ignorance is bliss as they say, you must be like a pig in s***
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You are completely insane to suggest after the referendum and elections and all the aggro since 2016, that now we should just accept every diktat the EU thinks up! Or we can get out of it and voluntarily choose WTO which all the other countries in the world trade with. I am sure the WTO is not perfect but it leaves us free to do what we want at any time. The EU is a failure waiting to happen.
You can see the photo opp - setting out for a high seas adventure, he’s going to be dressed as Captain Pugwash at the head of the ‘fleet’ with Master Mate Gove and Willy Williamson waving the flag to frighten them off
....while the engineers try to fix the engine and the dinghies from Calais slowly drift by on their way to Dover
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....while the engineers try to fix the engine and the dinghies from Calais slowly drift by on their way to Dover
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We will fight them in the channel, we will fight them in the North Sea, we will nevvvvvverrrrr surrrrrenderrr, well unless they give us a wary out.....
Absolutely pathetic flag waving nonsense. Of course our territorial waters need to be policed, but in the middle of a negotiation why this nonsense. The answer is to distract us from the glorious failure of this government of no deal. "A million to one chance", "an oven ready deal" and "a failure of statecraft" to not get a deal said Bozo. No deal = failure = resign. In business you would be fired
Of course he won't resign this culture of reward for failure has been going on for decades with people hanging on by their finger nails to get as much as they can. Gone are the days when top people had dignity and resigned on their own accord, now it's golden parachutes at the publics expense !!!
Water moves people. Is that beyond the intelligence of people.
Reading posts that “our” waters etc shows that is the case.
Fish move as well, blue passports or not.
Reading posts that “our” waters etc shows that is the case.
Fish move as well, blue passports or not.
Not in the middle of negotiations, it's at the end.
I think BoJo is going for a win on the away goals rule and or going for last minute penalties... Oopps we are not good on penalties...
We have seen some nations lose on trade deals in recent years, such as the US losing to China. No deal is better than a bad deal. Trade deals are overhyped. As economists point out, there is a huge difference between a 'trade deal' and free trade.
In business after 4 years of prevarication? You'd have been sacked after a yr of no progress. You wouldn't have even got to yr 4. I wonder if any of these people have ever negotiated anything. Negotiation is simple. Quid pro quo. I yield on something you yield on something else. Trouble is we have 40+ years to unravel. But the principle remains. Win here ,lose there. Present it all as win/win.
It's just contingency work. The real question is why the BBC is reporting it in such dire tones and why some people are getting so fizzed up about it.
Johnson won't resign over this. He is a narcissist , he can see no wrong in anything he does.
De Pfeffel is the guy who could score an own goal in a football match and then expect credit from his teammates.
De Pfeffel is the guy who could score an own goal in a football match and then expect credit from his teammates.
Or you’d be told to shut up and let the adults deal with things you clearly don’t understand
And so would you be fired for lack of originality, and lack of trust in your leaders. Perhaps it would be best if you just changed countries / companies.
would have been better had everybody focussed on brexit after the ref instead of spending years arguing about it and behaving like brexit would not happen.we should have all been focussing on this since the ref happened and not left everything down to the final few months.remainers are a massive part of the reason why we have no deal
In the middle of a negotiation? What about the EU saying British citizens will not be allowed into the EU after 31st. This due to covid, not leaving the EU. Scare tactics, they know the UK will be successful after the shackles are taken away. BTW ,I voted to stay in the EU, the EU are acting spitefully, if they don't get their own way, so we will better off without them.
And I want to know why there appears to be no effective response from Her Majesty’s official Opposition.
Given that they will not deploy until after Jan 1st, it is hardly nonsense. The French have pretty much said that they will ignore any restrictions and continue to fish. Well, go ahead but dont complain when you get boarded and your boat seized for fishing illegally in another nation states territorial waters. Well done Boris I say.
what an absurd understanding you have of business. Are you15? In business you would be fired you would be fired for making the wrong decision! A deal on EU terms is 100% the wrong decision. Well done Boris and co. We voted to leave and looks like we will be getting this wish. The UK can now go forward and prosper.
Remainers, you know where the exits are....
Remainers, you know where the exits are....
Are you calling for all EU leaders to resign too?
After all, a deal relies on compromise from both sides.
After all, a deal relies on compromise from both sides.
Why do you say we have failed, haven't the EU also failed? That was their intention, of course - and people like you have been their allies.
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Lol, nobody cares about doom mongers like u anymore. Go Boris with your 80 majority. Most people support no deal. Will be a bit hard but such is life.
its you who should be fired we want our fishing rights and our soverigntry back even Norway is now stopping French and E.U. fishing in their waters
Reminding the French and the Spanish that we will police the waters after we leave the EU will warn them that we mean business, therefore it is essential
We're NOT "in the middle of negotiations".
We've reached the end, without agreement.
This means we must have assets in place to protect UK interests.
Let me guess: you'd be screaming "incompetence"! if the government failed to protect our interests.
Typical Remainer double standards.
We've reached the end, without agreement.
This means we must have assets in place to protect UK interests.
Let me guess: you'd be screaming "incompetence"! if the government failed to protect our interests.
Typical Remainer double standards.
Barnier - a failed negotiator. Resign.
True. Johnson has been fired several times.
I wish the Tory MP's would grow a backbone and get rid of him.
I wish the Tory MP's would grow a backbone and get rid of him.
The waters are always policed. No flag waving nonsense here, just normal procedure. Blahblahblah more 15 minute nonsense.
And what happens to the foreign companies who bought quotas from English fishermen? Surely they have a lawful right to fish?
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I'll get the popcorn. The comments will be entertaining to read.
Sadly not...
We have a political and economic problem of monumental proportions for which the UK government has had ample warning. The response? Send a gunboat! Says it all, surely.
As a result of Labour running down the armed forces. Better than an inflatable though.
no we don't only rejoiners do because now even the Lib-Dems aren't going to revoke Brexit, so what will you little darlings do next election?
Negotiations have not finished, there is always a chance of a last minute breakthrough, but the gun boats are brought out.
Does the UK really want a deal, or has Johnson always had a preferred no-deal outcome ?
Does the UK really want a deal, or has Johnson always had a preferred no-deal outcome ?
He wants one ... or maybe he'll change his mind (to ensure he's on the winning side).
well I think that's what the majority of us that voted leave want rather than surrender all our sovereignty.
You mean the Fisheries Protection Vessels that enforce the EU Quotas, but will now be enforcing UK quotas, which EU fishermen won't have?
Boris knows what he is doing, he just doesn't know whether he wants a deal or not yet.
Right now his little underlings are scurrying around trying to gauge public opinion on this no deal scenario. Whichever outcome he goes for will not be the one best for the country, but the one that best suits his political career.
Its all matter of which one he can spin better.
Worst PM of my lifetime.
Right now his little underlings are scurrying around trying to gauge public opinion on this no deal scenario. Whichever outcome he goes for will not be the one best for the country, but the one that best suits his political career.
Its all matter of which one he can spin better.
Worst PM of my lifetime.
A chance if deal? Trump has more chance of sleeping in the presidential scratcher come January 20.
"Does the UK really want a deal, or has Johnson always had a preferred no-deal outcome?"
UK wants a deal, but England doesn't—so said the majority of English when they voted to quit, & later voted BoJo a big majority.
England are about to learn the downside of being the big country in UK—the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Empire days are over, it won't be so easy to disown this damage.
UK wants a deal, but England doesn't—so said the majority of English when they voted to quit, & later voted BoJo a big majority.
England are about to learn the downside of being the big country in UK—the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Empire days are over, it won't be so easy to disown this damage.
Perhaps the French trawlers should be redirected to Russian territorial waters. I’m sure they’d receive a warm welcome.
Nope. I think we need a deal!
But just quite funny to imagine a Russian response. I can’t imagine there’d be too much hand-wringing...
But just quite funny to imagine a Russian response. I can’t imagine there’d be too much hand-wringing...
The usual BBC anti-Brexit scaremongering!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
Dont ruin the BBCs story.
Scaremongering is how they get the punters in.
Scaremongering is how they get the punters in.
If it is scaremongering for the BBC to report it in a neutral way, then you must surely agree that it is brainless jingoism for the Daily Mail and the Express to splash it across their front pages in huge font as if it were a great thing.
The usual anti-BBC rant from Brexiteers.
Why can't you ever be positive about YOUR Brexit, delivered by YOUR Prime Minister?
Tell us about the new freedoms you will exercising on Jan 1st. Or the benefits to UK consumers and exporters of paying WTO tariffs. Tell us how wonderful the promised Sunlit Uplands will be.....
Why can't you ever be positive about YOUR Brexit, delivered by YOUR Prime Minister?
Tell us about the new freedoms you will exercising on Jan 1st. Or the benefits to UK consumers and exporters of paying WTO tariffs. Tell us how wonderful the promised Sunlit Uplands will be.....
Who thumbs factual comments down? I will never understand that mentality.
Obviously its pure Brexit hatred.
Obviously its pure Brexit hatred.
Yes we have. Anyway the French were never going to agree. They never have and never will!
Feel sorry for the rest of Europeans, most of whom want out of the EU and it’s stranglehold on everything. It’s a vast money pit!
Feel sorry for the rest of Europeans, most of whom want out of the EU and it’s stranglehold on everything. It’s a vast money pit!
Rejoiners are very ill informed, or they tell porkies.
Agree with you that we've had them for years, but before we had a lot more of them. The Island class and the Castle class vessels were built in Aberdeen and did a first class job from the 1970's onward. The two castle class vessels even went to the Falklands in the 80's
Wrong - they are naval ships. Scotland has fisheries protection vessels. Went well the last time against Iceland.
I think you mean vessel.
Its a bit like handing in your notice from a job that you have been doing for 40 years,then spending the next four weeks saying how easy it will be to get another job while doing bug*er all to actually get one,then on the day your notice expires,realising that the rent is due and the cars packed up.Only worse.?????????
And then blaming your former employer for not taking you back on, because you told him you wouldn't agree to abide by the rules and regulations of the company.
And then finding out your boss wants you to allow all their other employees to raid your fridge and freezer forever, tell you what you cant do in the home you own and demands that the board of directors get to decide if you are in the wrong or not for the rest of your life regardless.
Nonsense
No, looks more like handing P45's to recalcitrant employees, then asking the law to punish them when they return to try and rob you. ;-)
Speaking from experience?
And then realising that you boss is in the eyes of the law a bully, but when you try to take legal action you find your boss is the judge and jury.
Dont forget to also blame the "London elites" and "rabid remainers". After all they didnt help by warning that you cant have your cake and eat it too.
Thanks you have summed up the eu brilliantly, like a dominant boss who you cannot work (for!) with any more...
Perfectly sums up the situation.
But think of the money well save in commuting! We can spend it on the NHS, er hang on something’s not quite right here,
So true. We had an employee where I worked who thought he was the best and irreplaceable. A couple of times he handed his notice in to force a pay rise
The third time he tried it, the company said "NO"
He went into a meeting with the boss to discuss things. A short while later he was being escorted off site by security, no job at all!
EU red lines are clear. UK arrogance will cripple the UK
The third time he tried it, the company said "NO"
He went into a meeting with the boss to discuss things. A short while later he was being escorted off site by security, no job at all!
EU red lines are clear. UK arrogance will cripple the UK
I think the Leavers have won this particular metaphor argument.
No,it's ceasing membership of a club for which you no longer feel the benefits of membership are worth the £15.5 billion pa membership fee, associated rules and trade-offs. That's not just what it is like, it's what it is. Not everyone feels that way, but that's the overall picture. Mervyn King got it right in 2016.. in 10 years time people will look back and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Blimey, glad you don't live in the same UK as me, how depressing.
Think that’s the problem - bozo and the rest of the cabinet don’t actually need jobs, just a game to them.
It's a bit like being sacked from your job (EU) and then you keep turning up for work (UK waters) and the boss calls security to escort you off site. A bit like that.
Except negotiating a deal with the EU isn't. Or else they'd all be done really quickly and well ahead of any deadlines without any games or posturing.
What the heck I'm a remainer now
No it's not. It's more like selling your house and then telling the new owner you want to keep 80% of the back garden. Who would agree to that? If the single market is so wonderful and protected, why are they so frightened to let a small sovereign nation have access to it. Funny how Ireland has changed it's tune. Wait while we push up the price on imports with our tariffs lol
Universal Credit next. Or the IMF, in this case.
but then you dont expect your old boss to change the rules to make it impossible to get a new job and just to kick you in your teeth want to to keep paying to the holiday fund. And if you dont sign up to all the extras they will fine you
It is well know no deal was the preferred position of the extremes of The Tory party. If they had been honest from the onset we could have avoided this costly charade , Any potential savings for years to come have already been spaffed up the wall.
Boris has found some balls after all?!
Forcing a catastrophic no-deal on the UK in the middle of a pandemic is going to destroy lives and livelihoods in the UK - an act of political stupidity beyond belief. Extend the transition period and get a deal!
Unfortunately it’s been ideologically driven nonsense since day one. Boris et al have finally got what they always wanted despite their best efforts at covering their tracks - a no-deal Brexit which anyone involved in farming, sales, service etc etc etc could tell you is a total nightmare.
and keep on extending it ad infinitum, still singing to the EU's tune, Yep that's a good idea
Trouble is that there are STILL people in this country who seem to think it is 1940: plucky little England against the evil European menace. What a rude awakening awaits them - and they will never connect it with the way they voted in 2016.
Extend? you mean longer than the four and a half years it's already taken.
It is worse in the EU, but Macron wants to get re-elected at any cost, Merkel is a Zombie and her reign ends in a few months, so poor old German auto-workers will suffer, and French, Belgium, Dutch and Irish fishermen, but only the French can vote for Macron - I bet the Germans, Irish, Belgians and Dutch love that. ;-)
"Extend"
You having a laugh.
We have had half a decade of this nonsense.
NO DEAL
You having a laugh.
We have had half a decade of this nonsense.
NO DEAL
do you want to pay to extend
It is going to destroy more in the EU, covid lock-down is the problem here, not Brexit, though I pity Barcelona's Nissan workers ,they probably believed the UK rejoiners that Sunderland would close and they would be OK, silly really, because anything a UK rejoiner predicts, the opposite usually happens.
What a utterly pathetic state of affairs.
Our government is disgusting.
Our government is disgusting.
It what is guys up North voted for !!
Typical left wing drivel......Why is it disgusting to defend your own territorial waters.....You might think it pathetic, but those with a backbone think the action being taken is correct and necessary.
and so are you
Gun Boat threat. Have we not been here before with the Cod Wars. They did not turn out well for the UK who turned up chest puffed up with big warships and got a bloody nose from captain Birds Eye. Will they ever learn
Clearly you are not up to date with modern naval techniques it is more than sufficient
When the Scot's, Irish and Welsh all leave, we'll have more than enough boats for what's left for us to fish.............?
Don't worry, it won't take the arresting of many trawlers before the message gets home
Don't need to patrol all coastal waters - just those most endangered by illegal fishing
Once the UK has confiscated 3-4 EU fishing boats they will get the message.
We can’t stop migrants crossing the channel .... finding a European fishing boat at sea, nigh on impossible with our crafts and equipment.... ludicrous
Actually we had five vessels & one helicopter at the end of 2019 & are expanding this to 27 vessels, two long range aircraft & more helicopters.
Please try a little research regarding the matter.
Please try a little research regarding the matter.
I was thinking the same.
How on Earth can they cover the vast area to be protected?
How on Earth can they cover the vast area to be protected?
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
...like all the Iraqi people voted for Saddam (not)
Yeah right. Vote for him and his cronies to be tried for crimes against th state and its people.
You know the story of the emperor's new clothes. Well you are the guys saying how great he looks in the new clothes. The EU are the ones wetting themselves laughing at the complete idiot :-)
Bring a couple of Dreadnoughts out of mothballs - that'll put the wind up the French "Fishermen"
Maybe to pander to the WW2 heyday rose-tinted glasses brigade that Boris is also a member of? I'm tired of trying to fathom what's going on these days.
Rejoiners live in some mythical past, leave them to it, that's why the BBC opens so many HYS - they need a safe space to rant in.
“Johnson announces new world-beating Marine test-and-trace system. The £2bn contract has been awarded to a trusted contact who has little experience in the field and though has registered a new offshore company which is yet to be operational, assures that this will be ready and functional by 1st January 2021”
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We don't pay that until the deal is made. We keep the money in event of no deal but we will need a few more magic money trees to save our nation from the poor house.
Whipping up nationalist sentiment- hoping the masses will get behind Johnson against Johnny Foreigner.
How did we do in the last Cod Wars? ??
How did we do in the last Cod Wars? ??
It'll get better when the Little Ingerlanders realise the bulk of our fishing fleet operates out of Scotland.....
We are now in the Iceland role, these are our seas. Dear Lord if this is an example of the understanding of our 'intelligentsia' remainers ,the sooner they leave for the EU the better.
4 Navy boats? We have that many left?
The rest are protecting our single operational aircraft carrier (which has no planes).......
Do we really want to be doing this?
We already have 3 ships out there, looking after our interests. Are we suggesting that adding another will ensure complete coverage of the 80,000 sq miles. It took 22 ships to patrol the waters between us and Iceland during the last fish hissy fit.
Should we be bolstering our governments intransigence like this, over something no-one really wants any more.
We already have 3 ships out there, looking after our interests. Are we suggesting that adding another will ensure complete coverage of the 80,000 sq miles. It took 22 ships to patrol the waters between us and Iceland during the last fish hissy fit.
Should we be bolstering our governments intransigence like this, over something no-one really wants any more.
It took those ships and quite a few Nimrods and Shackletons. The Shacks have retired (a development of the Lancaster). The Nimrods were scrapped leaving a huge hole in the UK defences that the Tories said could be filled by borrowing off NATO. They have since (partially) replaced this capability with American aircraft.
Just watch the EU enforce their law. No "British" fish will be allowed to be sold into the EU without the proper approval.
Then watch the British fishermen whine about how they are going broke because of Brexit.
Then watch the British fishermen whine about how they are going broke because of Brexit.
Not in Boris and farages eyes. It is absolutely all about flag waving.
It won't be law enforcement until the existing deal is terminated. It's currently live.
No it's an illegal war of Bonkers Boris's and the Brexiteers making.
You don't enforce laws with the military.
Think how happy you'd be if the Boris deployed the military on the streets of the UK. That is similar to how the French feel today.
Think how happy you'd be if the Boris deployed the military on the streets of the UK. That is similar to how the French feel today.
law enforcement thru war ships......i have seen that in past, some nations never change, good, happy you guys are gone, now we can have EU and not EU and UK with tons of exceptions.
From a government that tries to break international law .
The EU fishermen have a legal document, called a quota, which they legally purchased (or lease) from the British fishermen who sold it to them.
This legal quota allows them to continue fishing in the waters stated on their quota until HMG buys back the quota from the EU fishermen and that has to go through the legal system first.
This legal quota allows them to continue fishing in the waters stated on their quota until HMG buys back the quota from the EU fishermen and that has to go through the legal system first.
.........which may lead to war.
OK so if French customs 100% enforce EU law on all arrivals from the UK (trucks and cars) You're fine with that?
More rubbish being reported and squashed in the report too, we have 3 boats with 45 naval men and women patrolling for at least 275 days a year already, so we are adding 1 more boat, big deal made into a big zero of a story, well done the BBC.
And we *still* cannot control people in rubber boats crossing a two hundred mile stretch, let alone Danish, French, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Irish, Spanish fishing fleets in our territorial waters, out to Rockall
Bumbling, boorish, bulls*****r Boris blows it.
He has no comprehension of how the EU works, including its democratic processes.
Gunboats??? The petulant, arrogant b******s will be starting a war next.
He has no comprehension of how the EU works, including its democratic processes.
Gunboats??? The petulant, arrogant b******s will be starting a war next.
With all the cuts to our forces for austerity we can not even compete in a war. That is why we have turned the usual 3 gunboats into 4 gunboats. We don't seem to have 5 gunboats anymore. I bet the French had the laugh at the adding of 1 gunboat as a show of force.
Macron had already stated that the French navy would defend French fishing grounds- a week before Boris!
the E.U. is not democratic
The Royal Navy is British - not English. Whilst I respect your sentiment, but do not agree with it, your comment is more accurately described as 'British nationalism'.
Sorry, but as a Scotsman I can assure you, we have our quota of Nationalist (Unionist) and I'm pretty sure Northern Ireland and Wales will have theirs too.
Can't blame this on the English as much as I'd like to.
Can't blame this on the English as much as I'd like to.
Sadly I am Welsh, living in England with no escape route out..how would BWRECKSITEERS vote NOW?...
The Irish, Welsh and Scots seem to be able to be 'Nationalist' why not us English, or are we honorary Catalans and Basques, but without our own Parliament?
Boris has found some balls after all?!
These ships would be better patrolling the Channel for illegal crossings.
They do, and if any look in trouble we pick them up and transport them safely to the UK processing site
Crossing the Channel is not illegal, thankfully.
For survivors of human trafficking and exploitation you mean.
"These ships would be better patrolling the Channel for illegal crossings."
...and do what?
They pick them up and bring them to the UK, which loses the right to send them back to their "First Safe Country" after 2020, because of Brexit!
Brexit makes illegal immigration much worse for the UK!
In other news, UK vastly underestimates number of people coming from HK...
...600,000 next year! :S
...and do what?
They pick them up and bring them to the UK, which loses the right to send them back to their "First Safe Country" after 2020, because of Brexit!
Brexit makes illegal immigration much worse for the UK!
In other news, UK vastly underestimates number of people coming from HK...
...600,000 next year! :S
Absolutely, get those inflatables towed back to the French coast the mostly economic migrants are seeking 'refuge' from.
If you leave a club you can't expect to use its facilities. That's how it works for ordinary people. The trouble is it doesn't apply to people of Johnson's privileged background. Old Etonians have their old school tie network. The Bullingdon Club would welcome back an old member, especially if he paid for damages to the restaurants they trash. So he just doesn't get that actions have consequences.
No member is expected to obey a "a whim" and all members vote on those "whims". Typical leave paranoid europhobic nonsense.
Too much right wing media consumption there.
Don't know why anyone is surprised at the current situation - Tusk is on record as saying the UK "must be punished" for suggesting that a member can leave, even before the referendum
Only countries in the single market get to use the single market.
The EU is punishing the UK as a message to the other countries threatening to leave. If the UK is allowed to leave amicably then other countries may leave. If you allow one country to leave amicably then you don’t have a stick to hold over the others.
You are forgetting that it was UK (while still being part of the EU) that helped to create those rules. So stop behaving like a spoiled teenager and grow up.
no, lots of countries trade with the EU, that's (partly) what they are there for, only members have unfettered access to the single market. So if you are not part of the club and pay your membership fees you have to pay more for access. It's not difficult, every gym operates that way
The correct term for this is realpolitik.
The world is run by the big economic blocs, USA, China and the EU.
If you want to play the game they choose the bat, the ball and the rule book.
No amount of wishing will get you a horse.
The world is run by the big economic blocs, USA, China and the EU.
If you want to play the game they choose the bat, the ball and the rule book.
No amount of wishing will get you a horse.
Sorry old chap you are wrong! Other countries have EU 'trade deals', & on those deals 'common rules' are agreed for the products/activities involved. This is no different, except that the UK is attempting to have virtually the same access as when a member, but without the same rules. The UK is trying to have its cake & eat it, plain & simple. PS. It's the poor that'll suffer with no deal, big time
That's paranoia for you. The UK is now just another country with no favours granted just because we once played for the team
No, you are not attacked. You are just asked to follow the same rules, procedures and benefits as anyone else. ALL countries have their EU issues, and (just like the UK has) have exceptions in place within the EU framework. Exceptions granted are decided by 27 membership countries. The UK decided to leave, why do you want to receive exactly the same EU benefits, but not the rules once you are out?
But it seems the 'Club' can pop over to your private lake and take all the fish ;-)
Every agreement and or contract has consequences for acts and or omissions that apply to everyone. The letter of the law always stands and it can be exercised / tested by anyone who feels that the other party has breached or not met the laws intentions... Sorry don't agree with you...
I think you'll find this is all self inflicted which makes it even more pointless.
Not every whim perhaps, but some of them and we’re refusing to do even that. Also, we are far more integrated than say Canada or Australia. We have huge exports into the EU and are geographically next door. Of course the EU isn’t going to be relaxed about our regulatory stances like they are about other associate members.
As a member we had an affective veto over EU laws etc. The fact that successive governments chose not to use it is not the fault of the EU set up.
No, we just want something for nothing and they wont give in to bullies. Bullies tend not to be very bright so it might take Johnson and co a while to catch on.
Rubbish
Brexit: UK-EU talks continue as Navy boats put on standby
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The EU is a force for good and prevented wars between member states for over 40 years.
The UK left the EU one year ago and now threatens a 'gun board diplomacy'.
Russia & China will profit from this fallout of NATO members.
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The EU is a force for good and prevented wars between member states for over 40 years.
The UK left the EU one year ago and now threatens a 'gun board diplomacy'.
Russia & China will profit from this fallout of NATO members.
Get your facts right. The EU has not prevented ANY wars at all between member states.
You'll have to wait for the EU Army to make such claims.
You'll have to wait for the EU Army to make such claims.
Largely due to NATO - the EU did such a sterling job in Ukraine eh?
In any event, and EU army is just around the corner -Biden will insist that Europe develops the capacity to defend itself without US help!
In any event, and EU army is just around the corner -Biden will insist that Europe develops the capacity to defend itself without US help!
Beautufully summed up.
He knows Brexits main supporters are English Nationalists with generally low levels of education.
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But that base is shrinking. Starmer does not have to make any effort Boris doing all the work for him
and his base like it, ;-)
And which base is he playing to with his (most un-trumplike) environmental initiatives? Or is that just playing the field?
What’s left of them. You’re common Trumper is catching Covid 19 at world record rates are the moment.
and the majority of the country
Britain used to rule the waves, now we're just waiving the rules.
Blimey, your comment made me laugh so much, it hurt! Brilliant!
A nice schoolboy pun, but what rules are you referring?
just like the French who have been breaking the law for years and years
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
So, our Royal Navy can spare 4 vessels to patrol our waters (well done past and present govt cuts). Those 4 boats will absolutely have no trouble patrolling and covering all of UK's territorial waters in the English Channel and North Sea will they? How many thousand square miles will these 4 boats have to cover? Utterly ludicrous posturing from Bojo. Tarzan's chest beating had more deterrent!
If only there was some kind of magical device that could track boats and tell them where they are or where they are heading.
Say what? The so desired fishing grounds extend throughout the UK's territorial waters?
Well, we’ve got submarines with nuclear missiles - could cure the problem with one shot! But, wait a minute . . .
Gunboats in the waters - transformation into a banana republic complete. Brexit has completely ruined this country. If I could I would leave the UK in a heartbeat
Can I pack your bag
no one is stopping you, if you think you'll have a better life elsewhere away you go.
I did ,live in Spain now could not be happier nice people and great lifestyle the uk has had it And most would I leave the banana it is becoming
In my line of work I see lots of people who voted for Brexit are leaving the country because the left and now BLM are destroying it and will continue to do so. Brexit unfortunately has come 20/30 years too late, the damage has been done and will continue. Some people have foresight and vision can see what’s going to happen in years to come and some have their heads in the clouds....
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I quite agree Parmenion but Bojo and his cronies have done everything in their power to stop the lower orders from leaving and will tax us to high heaven and will alter the retirement age to 78 for the privilege. Still we'll have a blue passport made in the EU to wave in peoples faces.
Slight correction here. Surely you mean banana monarchy?
Its very easy to leave, so please do. Also tell the 1000's dieing to come here illegally its not worth it and take them back with you.
What is stopping you?
Or, if like me, you have a Scottish parent or grandparent, wait for Indyref2, and subsequently apply for a Scottish (and therefore EU) passport.
Go on then off you go....its obviously distressing you far too much staying here. If Europe fills your heart, go and live there.
Bye.
Daily sailings from Dover to the EU land of milk and honey. Other ports of exit are available.
Daily sailings from Dover to the EU land of milk and honey. Other ports of exit are available.
Dinghies are cheap and can be found strewn along the South Coast of England. Hop aboard and get paddling if it's that bad.
Also isnt the term Banana Republic defamatory and a little racist?
I'll get the popcorn. The comments will be entertaining to read.
The usual BBC anti-Brexit scaremongering!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
If you leave a club you can't expect to use its facilities. That's how it works for ordinary people. The trouble is it doesn't apply to people of Johnson's privileged background. Old Etonians have their old school tie network. The Bullingdon Club would welcome back an old member, especially if he paid for damages to the restaurants they trash. So he just doesn't get that actions have consequences.
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
I'm a nationalist. I voted Brexit and would like it done.
Or is that not allowed in your bigoted world?
Or is that not allowed in your bigoted world?
A majority of idiots. It’s still a stupid idea no matter how many people voted for it.
Is it? Then Ms Stalin and Mr Hitler are true democrats, they definitetly got the majority vote. Voting is one small part of democracy but to understand this trivia you and other Boris's friends have to go back to school. Boris and Co know that very well but they are fully certified and confirmed liars.
The majority of people were not for this. In fact even the Leave campaign insisted this wouldn't happen - because they knew people would be against it.
I voted remain but also know the EU doesn’t want a deal that’s 50:50, as far fairness goes.
They have to show why it’s worth staying in the EU. That’s just a fact.
Fisherman are just being used by the politicians of both sides. Quite insulting really.
They have to show why it’s worth staying in the EU. That’s just a fact.
Fisherman are just being used by the politicians of both sides. Quite insulting really.
No EU gun-ships in the Channel, are there?
Spot on. We must be seen as worse off out of the EU. Otherwise, the EU will implode.
No trade agreement in this world is 50:50. There's always a stronger partner dictating terms and a weaker partner accepting them. I shall leave it up to your opinion who is who, in this particular squabble.
I voted remain as all the last 4 years were very sadly predictable - now people are moaning.
When we Remainers predicted all this it was called Project Fear - what do the brexiteer numbskulls call it now?
I voted remain as it is far better to be in the tent especially with the rise of China and aggressive behaviour of Russia - but then common sense is a very rare attribute as my Mum would say
When we Remainers predicted all this it was called Project Fear - what do the brexiteer numbskulls call it now?
I voted remain as it is far better to be in the tent especially with the rise of China and aggressive behaviour of Russia - but then common sense is a very rare attribute as my Mum would say
President elect Biden has already said no trade deal if the Good Friday agreement is undermined . So how will he react to NATO navies involved in squabbling over fishing rights?
It's time for everyone to calm down and sort this out . The disastrous referendum has split politics apart and now we must all come together to sort this mess out.
It's time for everyone to calm down and sort this out . The disastrous referendum has split politics apart and now we must all come together to sort this mess out.
The usual BBC anti-Brexit scaremongering!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
We already have 3 patrol boats assigned to protect our fishing vessels - one more is not going to make a huge difference!
So the EU thinks so little of the UK that they insist on the French tea boy continuing the negotiations.
Not that they can really be called negotiations, he is just reading his script.
Not that they can really be called negotiations, he is just reading his script.
He receives his negotiating position from the 27 sovereign heads of state
Well...
The 'Tea Boy' seems to be doing a good job of running circles around all our negotiators so far.
Remind me - how many have, so far, represented us?
Even sending a 'Lord' was to no avail.
Incidentally - the 'Tea Boy's' script has not changed and is agreed by all 27 EU Sovereign nations
The 'Tea Boy' seems to be doing a good job of running circles around all our negotiators so far.
Remind me - how many have, so far, represented us?
Even sending a 'Lord' was to no avail.
Incidentally - the 'Tea Boy's' script has not changed and is agreed by all 27 EU Sovereign nations
This has all the characteristics of a playground squabble.
Threat, counter-threat, I'll take my toys away, I want my ball back.
Politicians should learn how to behave like adults.
Threat, counter-threat, I'll take my toys away, I want my ball back.
Politicians should learn how to behave like adults.
Some do but sadly many others don't.
I think Macron & Merkle have the right idea. Having demolished the United Kingdom, Boris will have achieved the aims of Putin's Evil Empire and will last very little longer than the equally risible POTUS 45.
I think Macron & Merkle have the right idea. Having demolished the United Kingdom, Boris will have achieved the aims of Putin's Evil Empire and will last very little longer than the equally risible POTUS 45.
They can't do that until the electorate do
Well they'll be able to discourage migrant crossings while there at it !!!
Refugees.
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So to be clear, we are going to patrol the straits of Dover effectively (like we don't do now), and police our seas as far as sweet Rockall for the French, Dutch, Belgian, Irish and Danish fishing fleets, plus any other unlicensed visitors, with FOUR boats?
For 0.01% of GDP?
Gosh
For 0.01% of GDP?
Gosh
If you leave a club you can't expect to use its facilities. That's how it works for ordinary people. The trouble is it doesn't apply to people of Johnson's privileged background. Old Etonians have their old school tie network. The Bullingdon Club would welcome back an old member, especially if he paid for damages to the restaurants they trash. So he just doesn't get that actions have consequences.
Starmer hasn't said he will offer 'Rejoin' or undo everything Boris does,
if we didn't protect our fish stocks / waters, there would be nothing to negotiate anyway.
if we didn't protect our fish stocks / waters, there would be nothing to negotiate anyway.
I think it was “Resign” rather than “Rejoin”.
I suspect we will rejoin at some point, but only once you are out of the way. Have you spoken to your kids about their prospects recently?
If you leave a club you can't expect to use its facilities. That's how it works for ordinary people. The trouble is it doesn't apply to people of Johnson's privileged background. Old Etonians have their old school tie network. The Bullingdon Club would welcome back an old member, especially if he paid for damages to the restaurants they trash. So he just doesn't get that actions have consequences.
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
If they want to invade our waters, they should know there will be consequences. Its important we provide this clarity now, rather than once the milk has already been spilt. It is up to the french to decide what they wish to do and cannot complain our stance was ambiguous.
Still cutting off our nose to spite our face, I see.
Thanks for confirming what many of us know what Brexit is really about
French fishermen already fish in 'our' watersjust as we fish in 'theirs', so you are talking complete and utter cobblers.
So if EU fishermen call our bluff, what then? Do we damage, maybe sink their boats? Put lives at risk? How is another embarrassing climb down going to help?
We really are pushing the boat out to upset our neighbours.
We really are pushing the boat out to upset our neighbours.
What prattle. Too much right wing media not enough research of the actual facts.
Protect them from what ? We've sold most of our fish quotas to foreigners.
Good luck selling these fish then - and would you expect the French or Irish fleet to do the same?
Utter Nonsense
“Our territory”, “our homeland”. You should listen to yourself. This isn’t 1820 it’s 2020. “Invading our territory”; you sound like you’ve been playing in the woods as child and someone has trashed your den.
I would agree with you on this... However, what a way to go and it allows the larger states like Russia and China to be more aggressive because they see a divided Europe.... Not good...
Yes, Johnny Foreigner. Let's see him off, Captain Mainwaring. The jingoism makes me sick. The second world war ended in 1945.
Ah, but originally all countries only had a 3 mile coastal fishing limit. This is what the British wanted to allow them to roam the seas freely. This changed when Iceland went for 50 miles and we had the cod wars. See https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1964/jun/15/fishery-limits-bill . Agreement is better than protection.
Pub Landlords alive and kicking then...but he's just a parody!
Like your government you just don't understand international law - lock them up.
Madness
When we joined the EEC, our "Home Waters" were 3 miles from the coast, after that it was a "free for all". We are now claiming 200 miles which includes waters French boats have fished for centuries. It's Imperialism.
Would those be the foreign trawlers that hold UK fishing quotas?
No, in your dreams. Quotas were sold to businesses, some of which are foreign owned like other businesses. These are not national or political bodies but private companies. So how will your theory work?
So you have no problem with the EU defending their waters then.
And what we gonna do Give them Tax exempt status and let them fish any way? Write a nice letter over it? Go to war over fish?
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Quite correct, so it is a 12 mile limit then( I think that's the internationally agreed distance- maybe even less).
Have you considered air space since you are so concerned about 'territories'? So its no flying over Ireland, Belgium, France.
Have you considered air space since you are so concerned about 'territories'? So its no flying over Ireland, Belgium, France.
And they have the right to stop Euro denominated trading in London too which is worth a billion times more to the economy. I'd only Brexiteers could do basic math
Foreign invaders stealing our Welks and Seasnails. So vital to our way of life. Send in the S.A.S. and cut off their tackle !
You are now being silly, really. Our waters are up to 7 miles from shore. You sure want to say our fishing grounds.
And did you ever see fishing boat shooting rockets on our homeland.
BTW what our military is doing abroad then? Protecting Homeland?
And did you ever see fishing boat shooting rockets on our homeland.
BTW what our military is doing abroad then? Protecting Homeland?
Having a right to do something doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea to do it!
I have the right to take my shoe off and kick the wall as hard as I can. Not sure it's a good idea though.....
I have the right to take my shoe off and kick the wall as hard as I can. Not sure it's a good idea though.....
Stop all the illegals and impound any belligerent French criminal fishermen who break UK law.
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These ships would be better patrolling the Channel for illegal crossings.
If by "club" you mean the single market - lots of countries use it - but are not expected to obey every whim invented by the EU for evermore.We are being attacked for having the nerve to leave the EU cartel...
Gold.... eh? So you think black lives don't matter? Just think about what you're saying.
Johnson is a great guy, trying to do his best. I admire him. You may moan now but next election, you WILL ALL vote for him.
Tobias Ellwood, Conservative chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, called the threat of using Royal Navy gun boats to patrol UK waters in a no-deal outcome "irresponsible".
"This isn't Elizabethan times anymore, this is global Britain - we need to be raising the bar much higher than this,"
"This isn't Elizabethan times anymore, this is global Britain - we need to be raising the bar much higher than this,"
I wish Ellwood would let his conscious out more often. Served his country in the army as opposed to the failed bankers, journalists and career politicians the cabinet is made up of.
Wish he was in power now and not the Rottweiler right
Pathetic politicians on both sides. Why not declare war ? Then the stupid people can go and fight while the politicians run no risk at all. Don't forget, that if a politician dies there could be a state funeral, bit if Mr or Mrs Nobody dies, very few will give a dam.
The "stupid people" are the old and gullible that voted leave, so being old they wouldn't be required to fight.
It would be their smart, Remain-voting, kids that would be sent. And I'm not even sure they would go
It would be their smart, Remain-voting, kids that would be sent. And I'm not even sure they would go
Brexit: UK-EU talks continue as Navy boats put on standby
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The EU is a force for good and prevented wars between member states for over 40 years.
The UK left the EU one year ago and now threatens a 'gun board diplomacy'.
Russia & China will profit from this fallout of NATO members.
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The EU is a force for good and prevented wars between member states for over 40 years.
The UK left the EU one year ago and now threatens a 'gun board diplomacy'.
Russia & China will profit from this fallout of NATO members.
Didn’t do a great job in Yugoslavia. NATO and the US had to intervene.
Also I think you will find our navy already patrol using gunboats to prevent countries without access to our waters from using them illegally. This is just adding EU members boats to that list as per standard practice.
smoker’s logic
The only way to deal with the risks /facts is stay in denial and cite the odd 90-year old who manages to make it through life, conveniently ignoring the thousands of others who have fallen chronically ill and died as a result along the way
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The only way to deal with the risks /facts is stay in denial and cite the odd 90-year old who manages to make it through life, conveniently ignoring the thousands of others who have fallen chronically ill and died as a result along the way
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So, our Royal Navy can spare 4 vessels to patrol our waters (well done past and present govt cuts). Those 4 boats will absolutely have no trouble patrolling and covering all of UK's territorial waters in the English Channel and North Sea will they? How many thousand square miles will these 4 boats have to cover? Utterly ludicrous posturing from Bojo. Tarzan's chest beating had more deterrent!
Ok, so you send your 4 boats to intercept 4 different Foreign fishing boats in UK territorial waters that you've spotted via Satellite: What are you going to do about the other couple hundred scattered all over the North Sea/English Channel in our waters at the same time? Satellites/Radar etc. are great for SEEING them, intercepting boats hundreds of miles apart...not so much!
If they want to invade our waters, they should know there will be consequences. Its important we provide this clarity now, rather than once the milk has already been spilt. It is up to the french to decide what they wish to do and cannot complain our stance was ambiguous.