@Nigel_Farage Not true, 70% of our fish and shellfish is sold to EU markets. And, 60% of UK owned fish quotas were sold by their owners to foreign (mainly Dutch/French) buyers in the 1980s/90s. Why? - because they trousered £millions.
@johnredwood Yes, as part of a wider European recession, and so 9 years later we opted out of joining the Euro. It was all perfect before Brexit; inside the single market, customs union and outside the Schengen area. Immigration was in balance too.
@johnredwood Please get real, it’s never too late to change your views. Do your homework too…we sold 60% of our fish quotas to foreign buyers over 30 years ago
@johnredwood Unfortunately, extreme right wing politicians like Mr Redwood led us away from the wealthiest and largest single market in the world, citing loss of control (it was democracy). It cost the U.K. pocket money for membership, in return for ease of exports and growth.
@joni_askola Because Germany and Russia were as bad as each other (the Molotov Ribbentrop pact). Russia has since tried to deny that part of their history. As they did with the Katyn forest massacre - where Russia lied again
@johnredwood Isn’t the real issue, never mentioned, that around 60% of our fishermen decided to sell their Fish Quotas in the 1980s/‘90s to overseas buyers. Many millionaires resulted. We don’t own those quotas anymore?
@SuellaBraverman It’s surely about ideas and intellectualising those ideas so that people/voters believe you. What is so great about Brexit in your mind? You and your party seem to display a political vacuum in this area.
@JRWilson83@terrychristian I remember electing an MEP - it’s called democracy. So ‘wholly undemocratic’ are incorrect words aren’t they? This obsession with being over- governed has cost U.K. PLC 4% of GDP (£120bn, versus net EU membership costs of just £8bn pa). Blows my mind how people fell for it.
@Sargon_of_Akkad There is a word that was very common in those days: unemployment. It reached 13% at one stage and was over 10% for long periods. Compare that to today’s 4%. Without a job, buying a house was a pipe dream.
@CeeMacBee Interesting, thanks for the analysis on meat/dairy. About where they were seemingly. But our processed and fresh food markets - big markets for the U.K? Lost to form filling, such as M&S fresh food exports to France and Holland, previously £200m pa. Fish/Shellfish lost exports