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Teazel2 Mon 19-May-25 08:42:05

Please do not give away our fishing waters Starmer!

LizzieDrip Mon 19-May-25 15:06:23

SaxonGrace

Too late, that’s our fishermen/women, farmers, steel workers, pensioners, our young folk, pretty much all of us except the wealthy that he has Mullered one way or another, all for the sake of the mythical £22 billion hole that has already been proved not to have existed

What absolute BS!

Mollygo Mon 19-May-25 15:13:55

Wyllow3

😂 haddock not gap-dock....

And those are found in . . .
Come on, do share where people should get their information from.

fancythat Mon 19-May-25 15:27:03

fancythat

My word for him is traitor.

Havent read anything yet to make me change my mind.

Wyllow3 Mon 19-May-25 15:29:53

Mollygo

Wyllow3

😂 haddock not gap-dock....

And those are found in . . .
Come on, do share where people should get their information from.

Well here's one source on the next post: it's hard to find paywall free sources as I have tried: perhaps those will access to paywall sources which address the full points? All we have had are the negative headlines

Wyllow3 Mon 19-May-25 15:32:16

*A look at the over all deals by subject

Fishing

Farming exports

Defence and Security

Youth Experience Scheme

Passport E gates

Carbon tax

see by reading
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdy3r6q9mgo

And a summary:

“This deal should solve some of the bureaucracy and red tape that Brexit brought on, in particular for food, farm and fish exports, and was one of the concrete promises of Labour’s general election manifesto.”

However, the UK’s trade with the EU is so colossal that it should be worth more than, for example, the India deal: £9bn a year by 2040, versus £5bn a year for India

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2jkz3d0drt for timeline reporting.

LizzieDrip Mon 19-May-25 15:36:30

”Come on, do share where people should get their information from”

Therein lies a massive problem in this country Mollygo. Our media, across all sectors, is predominantly right-leaning and anti-EU. The Murdoch owned media (which is most of it) is a case in point.

We also have a right wing propaganda TV outlet calling itself ‘News’.

UK media is largely funded by billionaire oligarchs pushing their own agenda. It no longer provides ‘information’; it promotes the views of the owners.

The media that ‘shouts the loudest’ and is in people’s faces is all biased. Facts don’t appear to matter; headlines and articles are based on emotion and hyperbole, not evidence and truth.

In order to get factual, genuine information today one has to trawl through research online, sifting out the cr**. Very few people will bother to do that, so they get their ‘information’ from biased sources … and believe it to be ‘true’.

Marmin Mon 19-May-25 15:42:44

Indeed, I look forward to tomorrow's Daily Mail and Express front pages. Complete hysteria.

win Mon 19-May-25 15:44:28

Mollygo

^So how is it ‘giving away our waters’ … any more than Brexit did?^

Wow! *He did it first so why shouldn’t I?*

Such silly quote
The statement was he can't give anything away which is not already his. Which is a fact, He negotiated to make it better, which he achieved.

Wyllow3 Mon 19-May-25 15:48:44

Marmin

Indeed, I look forward to tomorrow's Daily Mail and Express front pages. Complete hysteria.

Shall we see if they include the pluses, hey? and the real story of who actually owns a huge % of our fishing quotas? And the large grants? And the benefits to agriculture and defence?

Mollygo Mon 19-May-25 15:52:46

Very few people will bother to do that, so they get their ‘information’ from biased sources … and believe it to be ‘true’

So if you are working full time, or even part time, running a family with all that entails and find it hard to sit down and have 5 minutes to yourself, instead of sitting at home glued to a device with time to hunt down whatever will contradict the news in the media then according to LizzieDrip,
then you’re , “doomed, doomed” to always be in the wrong.

Wyllow3 Mon 19-May-25 16:03:47

It's a quick read on the BBC and it would help if other news sources were not behind a paywall.

What takes the time is not actually reading it but summarising it on threads to engage with others and discussing it.

I think the key points that some of us are simply more interested in politics than others, is all.

My DS follows the main stuff and he and DiL are in full time jobs with 4 children

Oldbat1 Mon 19-May-25 16:28:56

fancythat

My word for him is traitor.

The traitor was Johnson and his so called oven ready deal.

Freya5 Mon 19-May-25 16:30:01

Wyllow3

WWM says

"The red tape that the fishing industry has been facing since Brexit has been hugely damaging. Not only does it involve a lot of paperwork but also a vet to approve the catch. What took at the most 16 hours pre-Brexit now takes anything up to 28 hours to reach its European destination. This cannot be so attractive to the buyers"

This means that Britain can now process fish and export it in the UK which is previously was not able to do, because under terms negotiated by BJ, communities ended up setting up complex and costly veterinary certification to comply with Brexit export health and safety rules. These will go.

Your last paragraph,please do tell this to our huge fish processing market. We have the leading UK ports for fish imports and a vital link in the food chain. About 75% of the UKs seafood processing is done here, including every other fish fish finger eaten in the UK, this has been going on for many years, pre and post Brexit. The ports handle the largest imports of fish into the country., situated as it is and in much demand from Europe. They handle high quality seafood, from around the world, and are a global leader in the seafood trade.
We have a thriving sell straight to customer shops on the docks, where you can pick up a lovely piece of North Atlantic haddock for a bargain. We've always had fish from there, wether by us or Norway.
So I'm not really sure where your last paragraph is coming from. As its always been the case that we can and do sell and process seafood .

MaizieD Mon 19-May-25 16:48:39

Freya, I think Wwmk2 meant 'export it to the EU', not 'in the UK'.

Freya5 Mon 19-May-25 17:01:00

winterwhite

What’s proposed sounds a decent two-way deal to me. I think Starmer is doing well here.

He sold us out to get his "quick deal". This was a last minute cave in, otherwise he would have had no deal. Macron and van der what's her name must be laughing fit to bust.

LizzieDrip Mon 19-May-25 17:05:22

So, Mollygo I take it that your option is UK media is largely unbiased, presenting truthful, reliable, factual information that can be taken on face value?

Fair enough, if that’s what you think.

I happen to believe that all the citizens of this country deserve better than the media we’ve got … even the busiest folk with hardly 5 minutes to spare. Indeed, perhaps they deserve an unbiased media most of all simply because they don’t have time to question.

I’m not laying the blame on the recipients of the media rubbish and propaganda. I’m laying the blame firmly where it belongs … with the media owners and their client journalists who, knowingly, spew out misinformation on a daily / hourly basis.

Freya5 Mon 19-May-25 17:09:18

Wyllow3

fancythat

My word for him is traitor.

Why?

Surely we need to look at the new EU/UK trade and security agreements as whole as to how they will grow our trade with the EU benefitting us all?

We aren't even waiting for the full results!

For example, this has just come up as news benefitting our fish industries

Scotland's salmon exporters hail 'breakthrough' deal with EU

""We congratulate the UK government on securing this deal with the EU which will slash red tape and the time taken to get premium salmon to market," says Tavish Scott, chief executive of Salmon Scotland.
"This breakthrough will ease the burden on our farmers, processors and the communities they support," he adds.

*Scottish salmon is the UK’s largest food export*

If you read the Scottish papers, it doesn't show much love for this traitorous deal.
Labour's Brexit reset is 'horror show for Scottish fishermen'
5 hrs ago
Brexit
European Union
Labour Party
UK Government
National government
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Cossy Mon 19-May-25 17:28:33

LizzieDrip

^”Come on, do share where people should get their information from”^

Therein lies a massive problem in this country Mollygo. Our media, across all sectors, is predominantly right-leaning and anti-EU. The Murdoch owned media (which is most of it) is a case in point.

We also have a right wing propaganda TV outlet calling itself ‘News’.

UK media is largely funded by billionaire oligarchs pushing their own agenda. It no longer provides ‘information’; it promotes the views of the owners.

The media that ‘shouts the loudest’ and is in people’s faces is all biased. Facts don’t appear to matter; headlines and articles are based on emotion and hyperbole, not evidence and truth.

In order to get factual, genuine information today one has to trawl through research online, sifting out the cr**. Very few people will bother to do that, so they get their ‘information’ from biased sources … and believe it to be ‘true’.

Absolutely spot on.

I get that KS is unpopular, especially here, but goodness me, in the few days he’s been so ridiculously insulted on here.

The bottom line is BJ left us in a complete mess re Brexit, and KS has done some great negotiating holding very few cards.

LizzieDrip Mon 19-May-25 17:45:23

Thanks Cossy.

As you posted earlier, it appears that KS can do nothing right. I’ve never known such a deliberate smear campaign, led by the media, against a British PM.

As someone on a radio phone-in said recently, “if Keir Starmer personally delivered a bag of chips to every household, folk would say there’s not enough salt on them”!

I’ve come to expect the Starmer bashing from all quarters now. It’s boring; it’s ridiculous; it’s malicious … but sadly it’s become a national sport🤷‍♀️

Cossy Mon 19-May-25 18:08:01

LizzieDrip

Thanks Cossy.

As you posted earlier, it appears that KS can do nothing right. I’ve never known such a deliberate smear campaign, led by the media, against a British PM.

As someone on a radio phone-in said recently, “if Keir Starmer personally delivered a bag of chips to every household, folk would say there’s not enough salt on them”!

I’ve come to expect the Starmer bashing from all quarters now. It’s boring; it’s ridiculous; it’s malicious … but sadly it’s become a national sport🤷‍♀️

All I can say again and again is we need to be more patient, KS “enemy of the people” needs to just carry on as he is doing, calmly and quietly, and just wait for the results.

We have all seen and suffered the results of 14 years of Tories, and some appear to have had a memory bypass!

Give me KS any day over any of those we had prior to this govt.

That KS is bashed and “hated” more than Farage and Trump astounds me!

I voted Labour and I would vote Labour again. No, I’m neither rich nor deluded!

Mollygo Mon 19-May-25 18:16:52

LizzieDrip

So, Mollygo I take it that your option is UK media is largely unbiased, presenting truthful, reliable, factual information that can be taken on face value?

Where did I say that?

We both know I didn’t say that,

but, if you prefer to believe your spin, that’s up to you.

LizzieDrip Mon 19-May-25 18:28:04

”We have all seen and suffered the results of 14 years of Tories, and some appear to have had a memory bypass! Give me KS any day over any of those we had prior to this govt. That KS is bashed and “hated” more than Farage and Trump astounds me! I voted Labour and I would vote Labour again. No, I’m neither rich nor deluded!”

Hear, hear Cossy.

For Keir Starmer to be called a ‘traitor’ on GN is disgusting (and baffling) IMO.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 19-May-25 18:41:43

25Avalon

If the Eu can fish in our waters themselves why would they buy from our fishermen?

Because they are massive fish consumers and our small fishermen have always exported most of their catch to Europe and will continue to do so.

They did so before Brexit snd have done with more difficulty since Brexit, but this will make frictionless trade again. More profit for our fishermen.

Concentrating on the fishermen is also missing so much more though.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 19-May-25 18:51:02

So what this deal has done is as I said so much more than fishing.

It covers food, farming and agriculture.

So fishing is worth about £1bn

Food,farming and agriculture is worth £10billion.

Whitewavemark2 Mon 19-May-25 18:53:22

Don’t forget that the biggest betrayal to fishermen came from Brexit itself.