Fish for Finance

[Old Greg]

“ Barrie Deas, the chief executive of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations (NFFO), said the deal had secured just “a fraction of what the UK has a right to under international law”, arguing that fishing had been “sacrificed for other national objectives”.

“Lacking legal, moral, or political negotiating leverage on fish, the EU made the whole trade deal contingent on a UK surrender on fisheries,” he said. “In the endgame, the prime minister made the call and caved in on fish, despite the rhetoric and assurances that he would not do what Ted Heath did in 1973.”

PM 'caved in' to EU on fish, says fishing industry chief | Fishing industry | The Guardian

Gotto to give it to Boris - masterfully used tiny leverage to get what he wanted, all it took is to lie a lot to people who were lied to in the previous decades.

Caving on fish? WGAS. What’s the picture with services in the Brexit deal?

[AtW]

What’s the picture with services in the Brexit deal?

It looks like one of Malevich’s works

[darmstadt]

There are 87 species of fish subject to shared EU/UK quotas


* In 2020, across them all, UK gets average 33.6% of quotas


* In 2026, it "rises" to 35.92%


>> So the UK gets just 2.32% more fish after Brexit <<


For the UK, post Brexit 7 species increase between 10-14%, 6 species increase between 5-10%. 42 species increase between 0-5%


But by far the most common (32/87) = stays same


Pages 893-896 of the agreement :

[darmstadt]

Pro-Brexit fisherman John Ashworth:

Brexit fisheries ‘deal’: It’s so bad we’d be better off staying in the EU | The Conservative Woman

[AtW]

Pro-Brexit fisherman John Ashworth:

Brexit fisheries ‘deal’: It’s so bad we’d be better off staying in the EU | The Conservative Woman

[Old Greg]

Pro-Brexit fisherman John Ashworth:

Brexit fisheries ‘deal’: It’s so bad we’d be better off staying in the EU | The Conservative Woman

Tough luck. It was never about fish anyway. The UK prioritised barrier free trade in financial services with the EU,

[GigiBronz]

Tough luck. It was never about fish anyway. The UK prioritised barrier free trade in financial services with the EU,

Treasure islands by nicholas shaxson.

It was never about fish that is just a diversion for the plebs.
The shadow financial system is the center of the attention and how power is kept over less developed countries.

It’s not any different than what some other EU countries are doing or the US.

The real question is what will it mean for us, the regular people trying to earn a living and still find some purpose in the birocratic, opressive corporate world.

Still suspect that a good part of this forum is bots taking to each other...

[minestrone]

See when you've worked in IBs with the French. Come back and we can have this chat.

[minestrone]

The French are just useless, they are in the Irish level of useless.

You can see the Germans giving it "please don't leave us with them" noises.

[minestrone]

We are always going to be more successful than the French because we are more intelligent.