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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Rumours the royal navy are referring to the French vessel as belgrano have been denied by downing street tonight
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’
Don Thompson says response from France is ‘like something you would see from Iran or Russia’
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Bit of a pissing contest going on hereJersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’
Don Thompson says response from France is ‘like something you would see from Iran or Russia’www.theguardian.com
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’
Don Thompson says response from France is ‘like something you would see from Iran or Russia’
It's interesting isn't it - and feeds into the leave/remain debate/culture war here:
If 25 British fishing boats physically blockaded a French port it would be loudly condemned by the FBPE crowd as outrageous xenophobia - but because it's the other way round they are cheering the French on.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
It’s stark that the French have not reached for the dispute mechanism but have made threats to the power and food supply in the first instance. Sort of sets the tone now.
As for remainers cheering on the French, well that will help.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Petulant. Derived from Latin, but no coincidence it came to English via French...
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
I am not supporting the French action but this kind of thing will become more common as a third country - our diplomatic power is much diminished, so countries like France will feel much freer to take the piss.
Would it though? 1) I’m not sure how blockading the port meets the definition of xenophobia. 2) if our fisherman were taking action to try to retain their livelihood, I can’t see why many would complain.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Nah.
During the Brexit negotiations there was some faff about whether the EU could export insulin to the UK if the UK wasn't part of the EMA - with the inevitable consequences for diabetics - the loons (not people who voted remain, but the loons) thought this was sad, but entirely reasonable and that any deaths were simply a legitimate side effect of the EU's rules. At exactly the same time there was another faff about intelligence sharing and whether the UK could share int on terrorism for example with EU states without signing up to EU data handling rules - and guess what? The loons went wild, about how outrageous it was that the UK would put rules in front of people's lives....
There is, sadly, a huge double standard being used by a certain section of the body politic - and to my eyes, that's the real sand in the oyster of this culture war, it's not leave/remain per se.
Yossarian
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bimble
floofy
This all seems quite mad, can't we just sent hundreds of plucky small vessels over to jersey with little generators and lots of batteries on? Channel Islands are a bit foreign though, not even properly British. Look at this traitor, i bet if he'd been allowed to vote in the referendum he'd have done it wrong.
jerseyeveningpost.com
Oyster farmer: ‘It has been an absolute disgrace by our government’
Chris Le Masurier, owner of the Jersey Oyster Company, described conditions placed upon the new post-Brexit fishing licences issued to Breton and Norman fishermen as ‘insulting […]
jerseyeveningpost.com
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Arent the States and China third countries as well?
ska invita
back on the other side
The fact this is being discussed in a thread called "The EU" upsets my sense of order
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Yes but they're superpowers we're not despite whatever delusions certain members of our body politic might otherwise have.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Pretty sure he's referring to the Jersey government, not the British. The Independent suggests it's the British but reading other sources it appears that the licences and their restrictions have been issued by Jersey and Mr Le Masurier does not consider this a fault of Brexit.This all seems quite mad, can't we just sent hundreds of plucky small vessels over to jersey with little generators and lots of batteries on? Channel Islands are a bit foreign though, not even properly British. Look at this traitor, i bet if he'd been allowed to vote in the referendum he'd have done it wrong.
Oyster farmer: ‘It has been an absolute disgrace by our government’
Chris Le Masurier, owner of the Jersey Oyster Company, described conditions placed upon the new post-Brexit fishing licences issued to Breton and Norman fishermen as ‘insulting […]
Either way, there are always two sides to a coin:
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
This all seems quite mad, can't we just sent hundreds of plucky small vessels over to jersey with little generators and lots of batteries on? Channel Islands are a bit foreign though, not even properly British. Look at this traitor, i bet if he'd been allowed to vote in the referendum he'd have done it wrong.
Oyster farmer: ‘It has been an absolute disgrace by our government’
Chris Le Masurier, owner of the Jersey Oyster Company, described conditions placed upon the new post-Brexit fishing licences issued to Breton and Norman fishermen as ‘insulting […]
Interesting that you've not thought to comment on the threat to blockade a states power supply, or the physical, actual blockade of its food supply...
not-bono-ever
meh
So we defending tax fraudsters and money launderers now. Fuck jersey.
not-bono-ever
meh
I have a lifetime beef with the Channel Islands so I may not be wholly unbiased in my postings. It is necessary to destroy jersey in order to save it
ska invita
back on the other side
The power thing sounds like loose lipped threats by one bureaucrat
This is so funny
This is so funny
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
the tv is very odd this morning watching the kyle show on C5
and the host with a straight face asked a caller living in jersey "is that not what they said in the 40's when they started rounding people up . its just a paperwork thing"
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
We're not going to fight a war over fucking scallops, there will be lots of angry shouting plus pushing and shoving maybe a few punches will get thrown on the docks. Most of the aggression will come from newspaper editorials seething about the Frogs and at some point someone will mention us saving them from the Nazis.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
they wouldn't need to if he hadn't dropped it in the water
