Brexit slowly becoming a Farce.

[Ira Gaines]

Okay HB

[Suspect Device]

7 hours ago, ancientnoise said:

A request for clarity isn't pedantry. No need to get uppity about it.

Fishing and fisheries figure prominently in both brexit and Indy equations. I was wondering whether the amount of attention given to it is was disproportionate. 

Take, for instance, the policy of the CFP (which we'll be leaving in a few years) to prevent over-fishing:

Overfishing

 

 

Which doesn't mean we'll have no rules. It's in no-ones interest to overfish and threaten the long term viability of your industry.

As for getting uppity, I just get the feeling on here that people don't ask questions looking for answers, just to continue an argument. I thought I'd answered your question but you picked up on a verb tense. 

I could possibly have put it in context that 169,000 work in the car industry which far outweighs the numbers involved in fishing.

You can't eat cars though. Maybe that's why it's more prominent. It's also a dangerous occupation which makes it more emotive.

 

I'll try to be clearer and less uppity in the future. 

[Scary Bear]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/the-van-driver-being-put-out-of-business-by-brexit/

Growth opportunities for car park operators in Dover. Possibly at Rosyth too if those SNP types could get their act together.

[Baxter Parp]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/966154/brexit-news-kasper-villiger-swiss-confederacy-president-switzerland-stupidity

Former Swiss president claims Brexit vote was 'stupidity, not democracy' in shock attack

Not sure what the shock is.

[Mark Connolly]

7 hours ago, Baxter Parp said:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/966154/brexit-news-kasper-villiger-swiss-confederacy-president-switzerland-stupidity

Former Swiss president claims Brexit vote was 'stupidity, not democracy' in shock attack

Not sure what the shock is.

The Swiss don't normally get involved?

[JamieThomas]

11 hours ago, Baxter Parp said:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/966154/brexit-news-kasper-villiger-swiss-confederacy-president-switzerland-stupidity

Former Swiss president claims Brexit vote was 'stupidity, not democracy' in shock attack

Not sure what the shock is.

Express readers are shocked by their own farts, tbf.

[Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo]

15 hours ago, Scary Bear said:

 

Growth opportunities for car park operators in Dover. Possibly at Rosyth too if those SNP types could get their act together.

 

[banana]

'Progressive' 'philanthropist' totalitarian Darth Soros at it again with his pesky meddling.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/29/george-soros-drastic-action-needed-for-eurozone-to-survive

Quote

A campaign to secure a second Brexit referendum within a year and save the UK from “immense damage” is to be launched in days, the philanthropist and financier George Soros has announced.

In a speech on Tuesday ahead of the launch of the Best for Britain campaign – said to have already attracted millions of pounds in donations – Soros suggested to an audience in Paris that changing the minds of Britons would be in keeping with “revolutionary times”.

 

[Baxter Parp]

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16256789.Farming__would_disappear_from_large_parts_of_Scotland__under_post-Brexit_plans/?ref=twtrec

Farming 'would disappear from large parts of Scotland' under post-Brexit plans

*rolleyes*

[Baxter Parp]

Looks like we're already like Italy.

[Cerberus]

The farmers across the UK who lose their jobs due to Brexit can fight it out to man the Dover car park for £8 an hour.

 

[strichener]

9 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

The farmers across the UK who lose their jobs due to Brexit can fight it out to man the Dover car park for £8 an hour.

 

Most farmers would probably claim that this would be a pay rise!  They only do it because their dad's dad's dad worked the land.

[Detournement]

1 hour ago, Cerberus said:

The farmers across the UK who lose their jobs due to Brexit can fight it out to man the Dover car park for £8 an hour.

 

There is zero chance of farmers losing their jobs. Gove has already confirmed that subsidies will continue until 2022 and the media focused on his announcements about wild flowers and hedges rather than the transfer of billiions of pounds to landowners. What is more likely to happen is that market forces are applied and the land owners (and fishing boat owners) are pushed out by multinational corporations.

As much as farmers are c***s no government should follow a policy which results in domestic food production being cut.

[welshbairn]

40 minutes ago, Detournement said:

There is zero chance of farmers losing their jobs. Gove has already confirmed that subsidies will continue until 2022 and the media focused on his announcements about wild flowers and hedges rather than the transfer of billiions of pounds to landowners. What is more likely to happen is that market forces are applied and the land owners (and fishing boat owners) are pushed out by multinational corporations.

As much as farmers are c***s no government should follow a policy which results in domestic food production being cut.

Tariffs on exports to Europe could sting a bit, as with fishing. Add dumping freedom of movement and the lines of new model Range Rovers outside country bistros might shrink a bit. 

[Baxter Parp]

1 hour ago, Detournement said:

There is zero chance of farmers losing their jobs. Gove has already confirmed that subsidies will continue until 2022 and the media focused on his announcements about wild flowers and hedges rather than the transfer of billiions of pounds to landowners. What is more likely to happen is that market forces are applied and the land owners (and fishing boat owners) are pushed out by multinational corporations.

As much as farmers are c***s no government should follow a policy which results in domestic food production being cut.

Did you read the thing?

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16256789.Farming__would_disappear_from_large_parts_of_Scotland__under_post-Brexit_plans/?ref=twtrec

[Detournement]

How much farming in Scotland is sticking some sheep on a hill and sucking up subsidy? That can go anytime.

Good farming ground that produces food won't be rezoned as anything else so there's not much option other than farm on it or sell to someone who will.

[Cerberus]

 

Chin up lads.
It could be worse., you could have the Bubonic plague.

 

[dee_62]

How many will have to die before we escape though?

[Baxter Parp]

11 hours ago, Detournement said:

How much farming in Scotland is sticking some sheep on a hill and sucking up subsidy? That can go anytime.

Good farming ground that produces food won't be rezoned as anything else so there's not much option other than farm on it or sell to someone who will.

https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/land-and-sea-management/managing-land/farming-and-crofting/types-farming/hill-farming

Fifty-five per cent of Scotland’s agricultural land is dedicated to upland sheep farming and mixed sheep and beef cattle farming.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

Tariffs on exports to Europe could sting a bit

By tonnage Lamb exported to the EU roughly balanced Lamb imported from NZ & Australia

So if Westminster is serious about seeking trade deals with the rest of the world there’s a strong risk that as well as finding it difficult to export UK Lamb producers would also have to contend with more competitive imports

But so I don’t gel labelled a “Remoaner” I should point out that it’s not all bad news

It’s good news for French and Kiwi sheep farmers and British people who like eating Lamb