Wednesday 3 June 2020

Oh no -- they're going to irradiate our fish!

UK fisheries accuse EU of using 'nuclear option' in Brexit talks

At a press briefing, Deas [fishing folk spokesperson] said the industry did not support an extension to the transition period and that skirmishes between English and French fishing leaders would be almost inevitable. ..“France benefits more than anybody else from relative stability from the current quota shares. If there’s any change to that, those quota shares or any other aspect that affects French fishermen, as day follows night there will be blockades, they have done it for much less in the past,” said Deas.

Meanwhile,some Irish useful idiocy in the new Stormont:

Stormont backs calling for extension to Brexit transition period

nationalist, green and social democratic parties held sway in Stormont, saying business cannot prepare for a no-deal Brexit in the middle of a pandemic.

O’Toole, [SDLP Brexitspokesperson] a former Downing Street adviser, said London would have to take the vote seriously as the assembly was “uniquely recognised as a named party in the withdrawal agreement” and Stormont had a substantial role in the implementation of the Ireland and Northern Ireland protocol. ...He said: “This is not about rerunning the referendum,



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