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[two sheds]

Nah this one's serious, much easier to declare war on France

 

[spitfire]

Just heard from Mlle Fire's mother in law in Toulon (French Portsmouth)

All leave has been cancelled and the Charles De Gaulle is getting up steam as we speak.

 

[spitfire]

lol not really.

Quick scan of the French news media is quite an eye opener. Nothing. Nothing at all.

 

[Spymaster]

Just heard from Mlle Fire's mother in law in Toulon (French Portsmouth)

All leave has been cancelled and the Charles De Gaulle is getting up steam as we speak.

We send a couple of patrol boats, they send an aircraft carrier

 

[spitfire]

lol not really.

 

[two sheds]

lol not really.

Quick scan of the French news media is quite an eye opener. Nothing. Nothing at all.

but why are they keeping it secret?

 

[Pickman's model]

We send a couple of patrol boats, they send an aircraft carrier

We can send an aircraft carrier.

Just not the aircraft too.

 

[spitfire]

but why are they keeping it secret?

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And they don't really care.

 

[two sheds]

Or Smersh?

 

[spitfire]

Or Smersh?

For mersh merk smersh.

Zut alors.

 

[Yossarian]

We send a couple of patrol boats, they send an aircraft carrier

 

[T & P]

The Channel Islands’ residents would be far better off under French rule anyway. I for one would be welcoming my new Gallic overlords with open arms.

 

[two sheds]

cheese eating surrender monkey

 

[kebabking]

kebabking this sending of the gunboats is exactly parallel with the east asian gunboat thing we were talking about - all for show. Being sent "to observe". No chance of these boats seeing any actual action - its all for domestic consumption. Dont you reckon?

Nah, not just...

Fishing boats (of all nationalities) can get a bit arsey with each other - rammings, and dragging each others nets - but they tend to limit that stuff when an OPV/Fisheries vessel (anyone's) is keeping an eye on them. So having two ships there will keep a bit of a lid on the argy-bargy, everyone will play a bit more nicely, and so it will be more easily resolved.

Interesting titbit on the carrier group - New Zealand have decided that one of their ships will join it for exercises and Freedom of Navigation stuff, as will the French and Australians. Germany however has decided that their ship will reverse it's original patrol route so that it can't join the UK+ group, but also they have decided that it will do a port visit to Shanghai. Much eyebrow raising in the EU...

 

[kebabking]

From this morning...


25 French boats turned up off Jersey, HMS Tamar and Severn were there, two boats got into the harbour, but they have all fucked off for now.

They might be back (tide?), and they might not....

 

[cupid_stunt]

The island’s leading oyster and mussel fisherman, Chris Le Masurier, is scathing and says the problem is not Brexit but the local government’s “incompetent bunch of idiots”.

I can believe that.

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’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mr Moose]

Nah this one's serious, much easier to declare war on France

Well there is an election.

 

[BobDavis]

Red meat for my brexit voting neighbour who wants to kick out all foreign fishing boats out of UK waters even though he doesn’t eat fish.

 

[philosophical]

Just red meat!

 

[cupid_stunt]

Oh, France has sent two Navy ships now, and the Jersey government is pointing out that they haven't asked permission to enter Jersey's waters, I think they are enjoying the drama TBH.

 

[kabbes]

I bet the Bailiwick of Guernsey are behind all this

 

[Raheem]

Well there is an election.

Got to admit, the Tories know a good loophole when they see it. No canvassing today, but it doesn't say anything about a pretend war with France.

 

[philosophical]

I reckon it would be great if Greenpeace or whoever sent in a boat to stand up for the fish.
Will somebody think of the children?

 

[Mr Moose]

This looks big and clever.

 

[glitch hiker]

This looks big and clever.

Rambo: Fish Blood

 

[gosub]

I reckon it would be great if Greenpeace or whoever sent in a boat to stand up for the fish.
Will somebody think of the children?

You do remember what DGSE did to the Rainbow Warrior?

 

[ska invita]

I like the proxy war being fought between this thread and the EU thread on this subject. I have a feeling this thread is France in all this!

 

[philosophical]

You do remember what DGSE did to the Rainbow Warrior?

Yes. Bastards.
In New Zealand wasn’t it?

 

[TopCat]

Well Sainsbury’s are now selling frozen raw Scottish languestine. Big ones, 10 for approximately seven quid. Never seen them before uncooked in a supermarket. Result!

 

[BobDavis]

Well Sainsbury’s are now selling frozen raw Scottish languestine. Big ones, 10 for approximately seven quid. Never seen them before uncooked in a supermarket. Result!

That's loads cheaper than in Spain. Eat for Brexit.

In other news the Jersey fishermen now barred from selling their catches in France are not news anymore. Their purpose was served on Thursday getting enraged brexiteers out to vote Tory because the French were revolting.