This Is The Sort Of People We Used To Be In Bed With.........

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/04/france-threatens-to-cut-off-power-to-jersey-in-post-brexit-fishing-row
they want to plunder our waters, presumably because they have hoovered up their own so they are holding the channel islands to ransom. Have they learned nothing from history? Why do France think they have any sort of right to our waters?

[Theland]

Historical, ''custom and practice.''

[Buenchico]

Why would the UK think that the waters around the Channel Islands should be under British control anyway? The Channel Islands are not part of the UK and they're a lot closer to France than they are to the UK.

[ToraToraTora]

this is not about the waters around the channel islands, it's about the main UK waters, they are using the power supply to Jersey as leverage on those. The way Spain and France go about fishing I doubt there's a sprat round the channel islands anyway.

[ToraToraTora]

typical underhand French tactic, the sort of thing you expect from a nation that once literally had the white flag as it's flag.

[Jackdaw33]

If they are so desperate to get their hands on our fish why have they banned imports of shellfish from the UK? Just wait till the Parisian restaurants open up again .

[THECORBYLOON]

It is about Jersey waters,

'It is claimed that the UK government is using red tape to limit the operations of French fishing vessels, in contravention of the trade and cooperation agreement struck with the EU on Christmas Eve. The UK government denies the claim, saying Jersey alone is responsible for the management of its waters.

On Friday, 41 ships equipped with Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) technology, which allows ships to be located, were authorised to fish in waters off Jersey, which is a self-governing dependency.

Girardin told the French parliament that the list of approved ships had come with new rules “which were not arranged or discussed [with France], and which we were not notified about”.'

[tomus42]

It's only to be expected. Conflict from the French at every opportunity, ie business as usual.

[fender62]

they are not fishermen but plunderers, they remind me of the chinese in some ways, the french will fish till there nothing left, and wont care either.. thye will look for new waters to kill off.

[Bazile]

I wonder if all this tit for tat will have an impact on my success in buying a chateau

[david small]

Individually the Frenchman is a good and true man. Collectively, haughty, easily offended, and belligerent.

[AZardoz]

@DS
// Individually the " fill in the blank " is a good and true man. //

True.
Collectively, usually an A-H.

[emmie]

i don't hate anyone, not the French - no one, life is too short to be like that.

[emmie]

maybe they have taken umbrage because we dared to leave the EU...

[Paigntonian]

Buen: Of course the Channel Islands are part of the UK, albeit in a rather convoluted way. They owe allegiance to the Queen. As for the point about proximity that's just plain daft. Should Belgium be part of France, or the USA part of Canada, because of 'proximity'?

[AuntPollyGrey]

No one on AB is Racist are they -its not allowed......

[THECORBYLOON]

"There are three island territories within the British Isles that are known as Crown Dependencies; these are the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey which make up Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The Crown Dependencies are not part of the United Kingdom, but are self-governing possessions of the British Crown."

[davebro]

I think we were in the room without ever actually getting into the bed!

[douglas9401]

Takes your mind off decorating for a while so job done.