Level playing field, we want to fish in your waters ....Are they nuts ?

[transam]

Troops on the streets and martial law will be the order of the day

Curfews

Internment camps

I warned about all this months ago

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Troops on the streets and martial law will be the order of the day

Curfews

Internment camps

I warned about all this months ago

What did you think "take back control" meant?

 

[transam]

Every one needs to get sheets of ply and board up their windows

Barbed wire would be a good idea as well

Mass starvation

Any one who has an allotment be care ful.

Cats and dogs will go missing

If u have a gold fish pond don't be surprised if the fish ho missing

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

..

Mass starvation

Any one who has an allotment be care ful.

Cats and dogs will go missing

If u have a gold fish pond don't be surprised if the fish ho missing

Are these the ingredients for that 'oven ready deal'?
Or are we about to be invaded by South Koreans?

 

[transam]

Hammagin thinks its funny

But get

Candles
Torch
Battery's
Radio
Matches
Canned food

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Hammagin thinks its funny

You mean you were serious?

 

[motorbiking]

One upside to Brexit is the re-introduction of duty-free.
Maybe the booze-cruise will be back in fashion.

Not likely under WTO

 

[EddieM]

The fishing issue is of course totemic in the brexit discussions, how is the UK going to enforce it? I guess transgressors could have their boats boarded, impounded and charged with theft?

 

[motorbiking]

On that basis how will the EU enforce UK imports, if the French can't be bothered because we turn a blind eye to their fishing? Or we end up with the Royal Navy attacking EU trawlers in a new "cod war".

 

[Tigercubrider]

If the uk government can't control a few desperate people in blow up dinghies, using spades as oars, French fishing boats don't need to worry

 

[motorbiking]

The difference is we have an ability to enforce rather than a duty to protect. The Fisheries protection Squadron are fairly active and regularly seize and fine vessels.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Not likely under WTO

How does that work then?
If I come from say Taiwan, I am allowed to take into UK a certain amount of alcohol, tobacco, and other items without paying duty.
In fact there are kiosks in French airports, and now Paris main rail stations allowing travellers to reclaim TVA/VAT, ready for Brexit.

Leisure travellers whose usual place of residence is in a country outside the European Union are entitled to have VAT deducted from the purchases that they have made in France. The visitor concerned must be aged 16 or more and be visiting France for a period of less than 6 months.
https://en.parisinfo.com/practical-paris/money/detaxe-tax-refund-and-duty-free

In France, the VAT Refund procedure has been made much easier with the PABLO barcode reader.
https://www.travelsignposts.com/Paris/shopping/vat-refund-claim-paris​

 

[Notch7]

The difference is we have an ability to enforce rather than a duty to protect. The Fisheries protection Squadron are fairly active and regularly seize and fine vessels.

it doesnt have enough ships

"Lord West of Spithead, Former First Sea Lord, has argued that the UK has “insufficient ships within the fishery protection squadron to carry out enforcement”, during a recent debate."

 

[Notch7]

On that basis how will the EU enforce UK imports, if the French can't be bothered because we turn a blind eye to their fishing? Or we end up with the Royal Navy attacking EU trawlers in a new "cod war".

Boris will give away fish in a trade deal.
there will be no trade deal without fish
and I cant see Boris wanting the visible chaos of a no deal, which will be politically damaging.



And UK govt have already said they wont be doing anything about the existing quotas that have all ready been flogged.

 

[EddieM]

it doesnt have enough ships

"Lord West of Spithead, Former First Sea Lord, has argued that the UK has “insufficient ships within the fishery protection squadron to carry out enforcement”, during a recent debate."

So, the EU would turn a blind eye to vessels fishing illegally?