Posted on 11/26/2018 3:31:15 AM PST by RoosterRedux
EU leaders have wasted little time in gloating over “the worst deal in history” negotiated by Theresa May, with French president Emmanuel Macron gloating he can blackmail Britain into surrendering its fishing waters or force it into the humiliating “backstop”.
The European Union controls its member-states territorial fishing waters centrally, sharing them out via a controversial quota system which grants British fishermen less than half the stocks in their own waters, destroying tens of thousands of jobs.
Brussels negotiators have been keen to maintain or duplicate this Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) beyond Brexit Day in March 2019, despite Theresa May’s repeated assurances that she will restore Britain’s status as an “independent coastal state” — and May’s withdrawal agreement could well allow the bloc to do so.
Firstly, it stipulates that the CFP will remain in force in Britain throughout the so-called “transition” period to the end of 2020, in which the country will effectively remain an EU member but without its current representation in the EU’s institutions.
Secondly, it provides for the transition to be extended for a further two years if a new relationship is not finalised during it, or for the United Kingdom to enter into so-called “backstop” arrangements with the EU — which it could not leave without the EU’s permission, and which would see it subject to vast swathes of EU rules and regulations and entered into a “single customs territory” in which the bloc would wield the whip hand.
Bombshell from Macron who suggests if EU doesn't get what it wants on fishing it'll force UK into backstop customs union. WA says fisheries deal should be done by July 2020 so coincides with decision on whether to trigger backstop...— Nick Gutteridge (@nick_gutteridge) November 25, 2018
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Her heart just isn't in it to be tough enough when she really has to be.
On top of that, if the EU likes the deal May has negotiated, doesn't that, on the face of it, tell us that it's a bad deal for the UK.
Eliminating Natural Resource workers means no one is close to the land or water so the elites can tell the public anything they wish about natural resources or the weather ... like global warming. How would anyone else know the difference? One can look at the facts and figures, but no one has actual real time experience. Fishing on the lake, pond or beach for one or two fish is nothing like open ocean fishing for catches by the tonne.
Theresa May is a Judas Goat betraying the Brits into perpetual servitude to the EU. She should be turfed, no matter the consequences and Britain should do a hard Brexit and figure out how to cause the EU maximum pain should it try to force more reprisals on the Brits.
May isn’t the quickest squirrel in the tree is she....
The British navy have all retired? Don’t bet on it.
Do American fishermen catch a lot of the types of fish that Britons eat and are we allowed to sell them there?
Rule Britannia.
Britannia rules the waves.
Not.
May is a turncoat traitor deliberately dragging her feet in implementing the willl of the average British subject. Oops, maybe that’s the point she’s trying to make. Pulle g out of the EU should be as simple as reverting back to the British stays quo that was pre-EU. Any other proposed amendment to BREXIT is simply a delaying tactic designed to wear down the will and morale of its opponents.
I recall reading way back when the negotiations started with May, that the EU leaders were openly laughing at her
It took centuries, but the French finally defeated the Anglais (English).
On the eve of Paris falling Churchill proposed that France and the UK unite as one nation (with Britain holding the reins it goes without saying). I doubt the French have forgotten that insult.
The Brits have become surrender monkeys.
>>Rule Britannia.
>>Britannia rules the waves.
>>Not.
That all relative.. Britain may no longer be top dog amongst all the navies of the world, but compared to the E.U. navy, they are a titan.
I saw Farage on FOX discussing the deal this morning. He claimed the deal is so one-sided that Britain doesn't even regain full control over immigration, and that "leaving" can't occur without EU approval. And, for the privilege of being abused by the EU, they have to pay a multi-billion dollar "exit fee!"
And de Gaulle had to die before the french would allow the UK to join the Common Market.
Wars have been fought over 'fishing rights',
since fish are the most natural, re-occuringsustainable protein source.
The French and the English have fought over fishing rights for hundreds of years, especially the Georges Bank to the Grand Banks of NewFoundland.
This Brexit agreement by May will erase hundreds of years of British seafaring history,
and will lead to increased food costs in England.
OTOH the Brits also get to fish in other countries’ waters. Wasn’t there a recent showdown over French scallop grounds?
Here's to new leaders in the UK, France, and Germany by New Years Day 2019.
There’s a lot of hypocrisy and ignorance in the British fishing/EU question. The UK government chooses to put up its EU fishing quotas for auction - it doesn’t have to - and sells them to the highest bidders, which are a small number of large operators, among whom Spanish and French companies are prominent. There’s never been anything to prevent the UK quotas being allocated solely to UK boats.
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