After Brexit - am I stupid or what?

Damning legacy of EU policy which BURNED British boats as foreign vessels emptied our seas

 

I wish it was a simple as that, noisette, even though I would like it to be. In the days when the EU was calling the shots the UK was subjected to having the responsibility of it's own fishing rights, quotas, and ability to decide who could, and couldn't, enter it's territorial waters taken away by an unelected foreign organisation. So, all decisions were then decided by 27 other foreign countries and Courts and that wasn't just fishing rights or quotas but lots of other sovereign and commercial areas. A lot of decisions over the 47 years were taken without being passed in agreement with the UK Parliament and gave more and more access to more and more countries as the UK was outvoted.
What we're now stuck with are one sided agreements regarding not only fishing but many other things in UK territorial waters where the EU countries believed they had more right to fish with bigger quotas and enter UK waters than the British did. The EU still wants that control, which they believe is their right, when the 31st December 2020 arrives and passes. It's true that the British Fishing Fleet has been much reduced and will take some years to return but it will grow naturally as demand for fish in other markets arise. The one thing that needs to change is that, at present, a lot of huge foreign companies own a lot of the UK Fishing fleets and that needs to change with more independent UK ownership.
The EU doesn't accept that it can no longer have the right to enter and fish as, and when, and as much as it's wants in another country's sovereign waters. The UK is willing, at the moment, to accept agreements to the EU having some of the one sided agreements to stand for a year or maybe two, but then wants to retain the right to decide, annually, on fishing quotas and areas within it's own territorial waters.
The French want to retain the old agreements where their Fishing Boats can come and go and, to be honest, their catch quotas are not that closely monitored yet there have been countless incidents where UK Fishing Boats wanting to fish in French waters for Mussels, Fish, Crabs etc have been challenged and stopped doing by French Authorities and French Fishermen.
The EU countries accuse the UK of being selfish and one sided but, for over 40 years, it was the other way around and, of course, are now they're unhappy that they can no longer dictate what happens

 

It's further complicated as when the UK was sulking about poor quotas and rights, they decided to sell a large amount of them off so the 'UK' quotas are actually foreign owned to some extent and BoJo has no intent to remedy that either.

 

According to the latest Parliamentary speech, this afternoon, the difference between the value of annual exports between the EU and the UK is £100 Billion more exported from the EU than exported from the UK. So, the EU stands to lose a lot more economically than the UK but, in the end, we both lose out if the EU doesn't change it's final demands.

 

Brexit: Conditions for trade deal still 'not there'

Conditions 'not there'..... well maybe, just maybe, if everyone had put their efforts into working on this the past four and a half years instead of trying to stop it from happening, those conditions might well have been there.

 

First few months of the year could be bumpy, but I don't reckon it will be too long before the likes of Renault, BMW and the French fishermen are knocking the door of that harridan Von Der Leyen and demanding something is done. You don't lose £100bn of sales and not feel the pinch.