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[Letters]

Rude

[Letters]

https://newsthump.com/2021/05/04/pun...r-todays-date/

[Mac76]

https://newsthump.com/2021/05/04/pun...r-todays-date/

totally

[Ollie the Optimist]

So its war with France i see

[Letters]

Brexit

[Ollie the Optimist]

Wasnt income tax originally brought in to fund wars with France.


We are still paying income tax so…..

[Letters]

It was, but I'd suggest that the costs of infrastructure are significantly higher than they were then, that money has to come from somewhere.

[Ollie the Optimist]

true

But on a serious note, I’m not sure the UK government is at fault here.

The french fishermen had to comply with certain regulations which included proving via gps/ais data that they fished in those waters before brexit. 50 or so of them are unable to and therefore are up in arms and protesting etc which has led France to threaten to cut off electricity supply to Jersey.

Ive seen people claim France are a sovereign nation so can do what they want with their electricity supply and yes that is true, but lets not forget France, Germany etc don’t like it when Russia threatens to shut off the gas supplies to Europe.

its another case of Macron trying to play the big man and failing

[Mac76]

true

But on a serious note, I’m not sure the UK government is at fault here.

The french fishermen had to comply with certain regulations which included proving via gps/ais data that they fished in those waters before brexit. 50 or so of them are unable to and therefore are up in arms and protesting etc which has led France to threaten to cut off electricity supply to Jersey.

Ive seen people claim France are a sovereign nation so can do what they want with their electricity supply and yes that is true, but lets not forget France, Germany etc don’t like it when Russia threatens to shut off the gas supplies to Europe.

its another case of Macron trying to play the big man and failing

the UK government is 100% at fault - they are responsible for lying to all those fisherman in the first place about what would happen when we left the EU - their plan was always to just let shit happen and then just blame the EU for it, backed by the right-wing press (which is most of it as we know)

they are also generally at fault for being a bunch of *****

[Ollie the Optimist]

the UK government is 100% at fault - they are responsible for lying to all those fisherman in the first place about what would happen when we left the EU - their plan was always to just let shit happen and then just blame the EU for it, backed by the right-wing press (which is most of it as we know)

they are also generally at fault for being a bunch of *****

But these are french fisherman protesting at lack of access to UK waters so how has the UK government lied to them?

The whole thing about fishing was we would control our waters.