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[magneze]

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[Raheem]

please to say how many fishermen from Bruges there are

They've got canals.

 

[Pickman's model]

They've got canals.

And they sail up and down them trawling nets

Doesn't really seem sporting

 

[andysays]

King Charles the Second granted Bruges fishermen up to 50 boats the right to fish in UK waters in perpetuity.
Will that be a charter broken in limited and specific ways?

You're not really suggesting that the 21st century UK should be bound by what some bloke with a crown and a funny wig said back in the the 17th century, are you?

 

[Pickman's model]

You're not really suggesting that the 21st century UK should be bound by what some bloke with a crown and a funny wig said back in the the 17th century, are you?

Wait wait wait

Bruges is no longer a port tho it has canals

I'd like philosophical to tell us how many Bruges fishermen there are these days. I would not be surprised if the number desirous of or able to fish British waters was rather below 50

 

[brogdale]

For those that know it, that's Detling.

Those 170 lorries must be fucking big ones.

 

[philosophical]

please to say how many fishermen from Bruges there are

Five hundred million.
I imagine.

 

[brogdale]

'kinnel...

 

[2hats]

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For those that know it, that's Detling.

Those 170 lorries must be fucking big ones.

One 'Standard Michael Green Lorry' = 10 actual lorries.

 

[Pickman's model]

Five hundred million.
I imagine.

499,999,950 will be pissed off then

 

[philosophical]

The Belgian 'hero' who invaded UK fishing waters

The story of Victor Depaepe, who tested fishing rights in UK waters granted by King Charles II.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[andysays]

The Belgian 'hero' who invaded UK fishing waters

The story of Victor Depaepe, who tested fishing rights in UK waters granted by King Charles II.

www.bbc.co.uk

"When a king [or queen] makes a law, only another king [or queen] can change it, and so up until now there's been nothing to say that this charter isn't valid any more."

A political principle we should certainly still be following today, wouldn't you agree, philosophical?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Thatcher would be incandescent with fury if she could see her bastard kids performance over the past few years

 

[not-bono-ever]

Lolz

 

[philosophical]

"When a king [or queen] makes a law, only another king [or queen] can change it, and so up until now there's been nothing to say that this charter isn't valid any more."

A political principle we should certainly still be following today, wouldn't you agree, philosophical?

Dunno about that.
Maybe the European Royals and the British Royals should have a tear up in the Eurotunnel car park to settle matters.
Jousting or something.
Televised.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Welcome to Gruinard should be the new sign for arrivals in Dover but I have no photoshop skillz

 

[brogdale]

Well, this is really helpful...

 

[kabbes]

Well, this is really helpful...

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It’s exactly that kind of thing that notes makes me glad we’re leaving even though I voted remain.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Thatcher would be incandescent with fury if she could see her bastard kids performance over the past few years

She should've thought of that before she crippled the political system to the point where a 200lb slab of plankton in Michael Fabricant's spare wig could become prime minister in the first place.

 

[brogdale]

Thatcher would be incandescent with fury if she could see her bastard kids performance over the past few years

some resemblance there, alright

 

[Raheem]

She's come dressed as a Magic Eye poster

 

[Puddy_Tat]

not quite for this thread, but couldn't think where else to put it.

apparently brexiter nigel lawson is having to sell his home in france and move back to the UK, as he can't get residency there unless he becomes a full tax resident in france.

more here

how sad...

 

[tommers]

Well, this is really helpful...

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Jesus. I can hear the ranting from here. Spectacularly stupid.

 

[brogdale]

not quite for this thread, but couldn't think where else to put it.

apparently brexiter nigel lawson is having to sell his home in france and move back to the UK, as he can't get residency there unless he becomes a full tax resident in france.

more here

how sad...

suggest that the cunt buys somewhere back here that lies below sea level.

 

[gentlegreen]

not quite for this thread, but couldn't think where else to put it.

apparently brexiter nigel lawson is having to sell his home in france and move back to the UK, as he can't get residency there unless he becomes a full tax resident in france.

more here

how sad...

Curiously in all my planning to live in France, "tax-residency" was never something I had to consider ... worrying about being taxed in both countries was something one had to avoid ...

Of course that sort of shit was why they were trying to destroy the EU ...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

suggest that the cunt buys somewhere back here that lies below sea level.

or somewhere overlooking a lorry park in kent?

 

[Pickman's model]

Curiously in all my planning to live in France, "tax-residency" was never something I had to consider ... worrying about being taxed in both countries was something one had to avoid ...

Of course that sort of shit was why they were trying to destroy the EU ...

Go for a halfway house and move to the channel Islands where the tax regime may be to your liking

 

[philosophical]

Verhofstadt has a point in my view.
If only telling brexit voters that the usual outcome of leaving somewhere means a border.
Including the conundrum of leaving somewhere you're joined to by land.
Brexit voters say they knew this anyway when saying they knew what they were voting for.
They are keeping their planned practical solutions a bit of a secret. Perhaps they can re visit what they 'knew' just before they voted.

 

[brogdale]

Verhofstadt has a point in my view.
If only telling brexit voters that the usual outcome of leaving somewhere means a border.
Including the conundrum of leaving somewhere you're joined to by land.
Brexit voters say they knew this anyway when saying they knew what they were voting for.
They are keeping their planned practical solutions a bit of a secret. Perhaps they can re visit what they 'knew' just before they voted.

Of course he has a point, but what a cuntish tweet to post now; fucking sociopath.

 

[not-bono-ever]

No one could have ever anticipated any kind of problem whatsoever at the dover bottleneck ever at all . Nope no chance there was ever going to be any kind of need for basic facilities like bogs and support fir trapped or delayed drivers. Nope, totally out of the blue. We could not have anticipated this in 2016