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Artaxerxes said:


I do admire this guys optimism that brexit at any point would have led to the world demanding vast swathes of British eels.
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Reason he could not export outside EU was that eels are endangered species protected by international convention:


Since the 1970s, the numbers of eels reaching Europe is thought to have declined by about 90%.
Today they are protected as an endangered species by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
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Illegal eel exporters exposed by Countryfile

So not the fault of being in the EU. Export ban since 2010

Funnily enough UKIP didnt mention that detail.
 
So I was wrong about the ERG hardliners, and the Tory civil war over Europe looks to be over. For now, st least: I suspect in the longer term the question of how far the UK can and should deviate from EU standards will start to open some of the faultlines up again in a slightly different form. In the meantime, Johnson is leading a party with an 80-seat majority that's more united than it's been for several years and Labour is in its weakest position for decades. Plus, Brexit is about to make a lot of people's lives that little bit shitter, with no apparent upsides to it either economically or politically. I can't see anything to celebrate here.
 
Artaxerxes said:
Don't be, he's a bigot who campaigned alongside UKIP
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In the video the UKIP MEP is complaining about scientists. I think the UKIP people and the businessman knew this was not fault of EU but trade outside EU was stopped by international convention to protect an endangered species.

They used this as stick to beat EU with knowing full well that was not the issue.

This kind of thing permeated whole debate about getting out of EU.
 
prunus said:
I know we’re not supposed to say this because ‘inclusivity’ and ‘sneering’ and so on but I don’t care: fuckwit gets what fuckwit deserves (obviously his staff etc might not deserve it, but he does).
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Well he seems to have learned his lesson, but I do get rather annoyed with people who vote first and think later. If him and his ilk come out on the streets to demand tory blood with the rest of us once this has all gone tits up then all will be forgiven.
 
I hope he can set those creatures free so they can enjoy their own sovereignty.

The word leavemoaner is too clunky, surely somebody can think up a better one.

Anyway, I agree with what has been written above, fuck him the brexit moron.

I hope he suffers after selling every bit of everything he owns and shares the proceeds with his workers.
 
After much reading around there is apparently a vast market for eels in Asia, which factors into why they are so expensive. They are also classed as endangered but apparently thriving in the Severn (so you can ask one of two things 1) how do we make this population collapse as well or 2) why do we want to fish them out as well?)

I'm not entirely sure how leaving the EU was meant to facilitate getting access to this market, and I also question the wisdom and logistics of transporting live eels 5000 miles away to Beijing or China in the age of environmentalism and sustainability.
 
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