del trotter:
Grandpa:
del trotter:
Grandpa:
Fishing was one example where Britain’s fishing industry was farmed out for the exclusive use of others.
I assume you mean the fishing quotas that were given to British fishermen who promptly sold them on so they could sit all day in the pub instead?
The fishing quotas were given to other European countries because being in the EU meant we gave away the rights to the 12 mile fishing rights around the coast. Yep, the few fishermen left are loving it, sitting in the pub on the dole. 
Sure, that is exactly what happened, try doing some research or do facts not fit your agenda?
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/0 … fleetwood/
theguardian.com/commentisfr … government
express.co.uk/comment/colum … rts-brexit
independent.co.uk/news/uk/b … 15516.html
If you try to remove national boundaries and introduce the free movement of people and goods by becoming a federation, you also remove the previous protectionism that the nation states held. It’s why Britain has no say in East European economic migrants, of foreign hauliers coming in, or in the case of fishing, the quotas the EU introduces to fish British waters (Common Fisheries Policy). It’s EU law and supersedes British law. Ask the fishermen themselves.
You can’t look at what’s going on today and say it happened by magic. Yet together with the EU, the political leaders from Blair onwards have reduced this country to a shadow of its former self and there are people cheering that on. Amazing!
To be competitive in a country that allows the free movement of goods and people means competition from those countries that are economically much worse than we are. We simply can’t compete against them and our haulage companies are going bankrupt trying, in addition to fighting amongst themselves.
This is an EU phenomenon, it rarely happens outside the EU in the majority of countries that have very tight restrictions on imported foreign labour and flooding itself with unfair competition. That we’re now stressed, overworked and underpaid shouldn’t come as a surprise. When you get the chance, talk to the Poles, Latvians or Romanians because what we’ve got now is normal to them. They came to escape what is happening in their own countries and now that the ‘gig’ is over and the British transport industry is beginning to resemble their own, many are returning home.
Of course, it’s not just about foreign competition; the heavy industries having gone, coupled with the former illusion of borrowing money to make an economy appear to be doing well; leading to the huge rise of agencies to fuel a gig economy and the umbrella companies feeding off wages … It’s a dog eat dog economy with everyone trying to make a quick profit and it isn’t us at the bottom that’s benefitting.
Why would I have a chip on my shoulder? If you align yourself with some of the worse performing economies in Europe on an equality basis, what else would you expect to happen that isn’t happening now in a race to the bottom? I’m not surprised at what’s going on, I just happen to mention it. Another ten years of this and we’ll look like all the other collapsed economies propped up by the IMF and ECB.
