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Latest from Monsieur Barnier - the UK may own its sovereign waters but the EU owns the fish in them. Unfuckingbelievable

 

Depends where the bastards swim to!

 

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No, he's claiming ownership in UK waters. It's part of his argument why the UK must let EU factory ships in

 

Crazy hey

 

Very

 

Saying we’d be arguing about fish over four years later would have been a less successful bus slogan.

 

what passports do these fish have
do we need to send gunboats to protect the british ones

 

They’ll be the ones singing Land of Hake and Glory.

 

Corrected that for you.

 

Fishing represents 0.1% of the UK economy, with 10,000 people employed.

That's actually more than I had expected, but still tiny.

 

And some people on here don't accept that it's the intransigence from the EU that is leading to a no deal.

There are none so blind.....

 

They should really just kowtow to us as the weaker negotiating partner given we won the war.

 

It was always going to be a no deal Col. That's what the tories have always wanted

 

Would you sacrifice 0.1% of the economy (or part thereof) for the sake of securing a deal that benefits the other 99.9%?

 

We've offered them fishing renewable annually. They want it in perpetuity and to continue to rape our seas. Massive point of principal for an island nation.

 

Principle or intransigence?

Edit: Rape our seas?

 

It matters to a nation regaining its independence that it is not bludgeoned into giving up what it promised voters in the Brexit vote. Besides, this government should not bind subsequent governments in perpetuity

 

How many Leave voters were bothered about fishing? It's a tiny issue for ****'s sake.

Still, EU intransigence.