Fishing Bodies Slam Starmer’s 12-Year ‘Disaster’ EU Sellout – Guido Fawkes

Fishing Bodies Slam Starmer’s 12-Year ‘Disaster’ EU Sellout

mdi-fullscreen

Reaction to Starmer’s EU surrender have continued to pour in overnight and into the morning. Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast that “no reset is better than a bad reset”…

Disbelief at the 12-year fishing agreement has been particularly stinging. Wales’ Labour first minister Eluned Morgan said yesterday evening that she “would have liked more discussion…We’ve had an idea of what’s been going on the whole time but the detail wasn’t finalised until the past few days.” Hardly the boldest opposition to the PM there…

Fishermen’s and fisherwomen’s organisations are reeling at the sellout. Scottish Fishermen’s Federation CEO Elspeth Macdonald said this morning on 5 Live that the deal is a “really unfair and unbalanced arrangement… We believe there will be some advantages, but those advantages do not outweigh the cost of giving away free access to UK fishing waters for 12 years.” Mike Cohen, CEO of the National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations adds that annual fishing quota negotiations were the “the best card” Britain had in trying to get a “fairer division’ of rights“: “We had a card in those negotiations with the EU and we have given it to the other side.” Could another Battle of the Thames be on the cards…

Negotiators say four-year quotas had been agreed until Starmer gave an interview with The Sunday Times in which he expressed keenness to pursue a youth mobility deal, at which point it held the UK over a barrel on fishing until a final overnight capitulation. Cheers, Keir…