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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I think you are still looking at this as if we were somehow obligated or bound to the EU. From January next year, we will be an independent nation and we don't have to let any foreign country fish within our territorial waters. This isn't up for negotiation. It's international law. If the EU don't like it, they can do one. Our trade will simply migrate towards the US if the EU don't get their acts together soon.
I don't think Barnier and his lot have actually smelt the coffee yet. They need to step away from their self righteous platform and start to get real about negotiating a trade deal. Yes, a trade deal, not BRINO, which still seems to be their approach to these discussions.
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You fail to have grasped that fish migrate across territorial waters, and unsustainable fishing by either side ends up with everyone losing.
Of course we aren't obliged to do anything for the EU, however we are under obligation to our fishing communities to ensure that fishing in the sea is done in a sustainable way.
Equally, we have businesses in supply chains that would like fresh fish found in EU waters more than ours - therefore it's in both our interests to get fresh fish to our shores as quickly as possible rather than import it from the EU. This makes the negotiation very important.
Someone hasn't woke up and smelt coffee but I doubt it is the EU, our Government are sleeping at the wheel here and an extension inevitable.