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UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work
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- UK and Norway fail to reach fishing deal
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- Apr 29 2021
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- 38 words
I suppose it is, in theory, possible to imagine a situation in which an outstandingly capable government could negotiate, from a minority position (rather than as part of EU) a better deal for UK fishing rights than we already had within the EU. In theory. Although how anyone thought that the Conservatives could ever be capable of such a thing is beyond me. Boris's lot could barely negotiate me into pissing in their coffee and I already want to do that.
I'm not saying all of the fishing industry voted for this, but there was a lot of brexit support among fishermen, and while I feel bad for those who tried to stop it, I have very limited sympathy for the people who voted to take away their own jobs. They were warned and they chose to do it anyway. A friend of mine has a saying - "you won, get over it"
Yeah, it's just an all-around shitty situation, and it's sad that so many people are bound to suffer even though they didn't vote for BREXIT... but despite that, I still find myself feeling intense schadenfreude when reading stories about those who did actually vote to leave complaining about now having to suffer the negative consequences of it.
p.s. And in this case, University of Aberdeen polling of Fishermen’s Associations and Producer Organisations in the lead up to the referendum showed ~92% of fisherman in the UK intended to vote leave, and the vast majority thought leaving the EU would improve their fortunes.