BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴
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February - better than January:
https://www.fdf.org.uk/globalassets/resources/publications/uk-eu-food-and-drink-trade-snapshot-feb-2021.pdf
This came out last week.0 -
For pressure equipment and the like? Not going to happen, it's pointless.TheBigBean said:
Higher standards?elbowloh said:I don't see what the government are trying to achieve with this, as someone who has worked for a certification body and knows about certifications and accreditations? It doesn't make sense.
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Sounds like the fish are winning the Brexit wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/france-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-jersey-in-post-brexit-fishing-row0 -
This isxthe opportunity BJ has been hoping for. Be as awkward as the French until they do something stupid, then scrap the NI - UK border controls in retaliation.TheBigBean said:Sounds like the fish are winning the Brexit wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/france-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-jersey-in-post-brexit-fishing-row0 -
Yep, the French are getting really riled by this. How petulant.TheBigBean said:Sounds like the fish are winning the Brexit wars.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/france-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-jersey-in-post-brexit-fishing-row"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
If the French shut of power then it will be open season on them and the majority of Brits will not give two hoots. Some stellar drum banging by Macron again. He is so not winning the next election it is funny. What next is he going to bomb them.0
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I think we are about to find out that English people don’t care about Jersey. If Macron makes us a decent offer we should let him have all of themddraver said:Maybe he doesnt give a censored about British people and is playing to his home audience? Wonder who might have given him that idea..?🤔
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Gibraltar
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It's a closing down sale“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Anyway, Barnier's book is out.
Cheeky bugger only published it in foreign.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Only one of those is in the UK.tailwindhome said:Ni
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We didn't beat the Argies with that attitudeTheBigBean said:
Only one of those is in the UK.tailwindhome said:Ni
Gibraltar
Jersey
It's a closing down sale“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
tailwindhome said:
We didn't beat the Argies with that attitudeTheBigBean said:
Only one of those is in the UK.tailwindhome said:Ni
Gibraltar
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It's a closing down sale
I was just thinking, re Jersey... have the French still got Exocet?
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I saw a tweet saying it was available in English as well.tailwindhome said:Anyway, Barnier's book is out.
Cheeky censored only published it in foreign.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
It's gunboat diplomacy now... it's all going so swimmingly well... what's the last time we had a war with the French?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/uk-hits-back-at-french-threat-to-cut-jerseys-electricity-supply0 -
It's like a stupidity competition.briantrumpet said:It's gunboat diplomacy now... it's all going so swimmingly well... what's the last time we had a war with the French?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/uk-hits-back-at-french-threat-to-cut-jerseys-electricity-supply1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
rjsterry said:
It's like a stupidity competition.briantrumpet said:It's gunboat diplomacy now... it's all going so swimmingly well... what's the last time we had a war with the French?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/uk-hits-back-at-french-threat-to-cut-jerseys-electricity-supply
Maybe Johnson getting to pretend to be a grown-up, playing with gunboats, will be seen as a plus of Brexit. And at least the boats haven't got as far to go as they did for the Falklands. What's not to like?0 -
That will play well with Brexit supporters and Daily Mail readers though. Nothing like showing your military might to Johnny Foreigner hey old chap.briantrumpet said:It's gunboat diplomacy now... it's all going so swimmingly well... what's the last time we had a war with the French?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/uk-hits-back-at-french-threat-to-cut-jerseys-electricity-supply0 -
Is there anything stopping the Channel Islands joining the EU as they're self-governing?0
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Sending the navy to oversee a plan to blockade a key port sounds fairly reasonable.
Jersey deciding to stop the overfishing that the EU has failed to do also sounds reasonable.0 -
In case it isn't obvious, various parts of the City are very reliant on the Channel Islands and the gov't will be very aware of that.0
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TheBigBean said:
Sending the navy to oversee a plan to blockade a key port sounds fairly reasonable.
Jersey deciding to stop the overfishing that the EU has failed to do also sounds reasonable.
If you read the original report, there might be two sides to the disagreement...But not everyone in the local fishing sector agrees. The island’s leading oyster and mussel fisherman, Chris Le Masurier, is scathing and says the problem is not Brexit but the local government’s “incompetent bunch of idiots”.
“I am so drained after this weekend because every French fisherman I know phoned me to complain,” he said. “I have been dealing with France for 30 years and I’ve learned there is a way to deal with our closest neighbour,” he told the local online news outlet Bailiwick Express. “It seems that the new licences were sent out Friday and then everyone ran out of the office. It was a complete insult to the French. It’s as if an apprentice who started on Friday has issued the licences. This has all been done in a pathetic way.”
At stake are just 70 French vessels fishing mainly shellfish including scallops, whelks and lobster. Jersey issued licences to the 41 French boats over 12 metres on Friday but French politicians claimed that without any notice they came with restrictions on the number of fishing days and the fishing equipment allowed.
One French national assembly member, Bertrand Sorre, said a fisher from Granville who fished for scallops and whelks “on average 40 days a year” in Jersey waters had been told he would have access for only 11 days. “The anger is roaring and the desire to do battle is palpable,” Sorre said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/jersey-fishing-row-french-threats-pretty-close-to-act-of-war0 -
It was reported on the 10 o'clock news that it's not about overfishing but everything to do with the last minute licenses being issued which the French fishers feel have been foisted on them with unreasonable small-print.TheBigBean said:Sending the navy to oversee a plan to blockade a key port sounds fairly reasonable.
Jersey deciding to stop the overfishing that the EU has failed to do also sounds reasonable.
It was reported that they were hoping for more of a conversation, and so because they're French they're protesting.0 -
rick_chasey said:
It was reported on the 10 o'clock news that it's not about overfishing but everything to do with the last minute licenses being issued which the French fishers feel have been foisted on them with unreasonable small-print.TheBigBean said:Sending the navy to oversee a plan to blockade a key port sounds fairly reasonable.
Jersey deciding to stop the overfishing that the EU has failed to do also sounds reasonable.
It was reported that they were hoping for more of a conversation, and so because they're French they're protesting.
It really is the Chris Morris The Day Today "It's War!" episode. That gunboats have been dispatched over a few whelks is utterly ludicrous. If only there were some supra-national body that could have managed such things...0
