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Name one good thing from Brexit then, eh?

Yes, yes, I know it will strike as trivial and all that. But it is at least possible now to have a rational fisheries policy:

The European Union has launched legal action against the UK over a ban on catching sand eels in British waters in a fresh post-Brexit fishing dispute.

In January, Britain announced a ban on catching sand eels on Dogger Bank in the North Sea to protect the area’s populations of puffins and kittiwakes, which eat the fish.

The reason, well, you’ve got to claim it’s for environmental reasons to be allowed to do it. But banning sand eel fishing is a good idea. Alloow them to flourish to as to provide the food chain for cod etc out there – rather than being ground up for pig feed in Denmark.

Or even, you don;t think it’s a good idea. OK. But it is, at least, a possible idea because Brexit. Staying within the Common Fisheries Policy would have meant the decision is impossible.

8 thoughts on “Name one good thing from Brexit then, eh?”

  1. The Meissen Bison

    Why bother bringing a case? It’s not as though the UK will assert its sovereignty over land or sea.

  2. Ah yes, sand eels robbed from British waters to go into pig feed for Danish factory-farmed pork. Which can of course undercut British farmers.

    Yet some people continue to argue that importing cheap food from people who don’t give a shit about the rules we force on our producers is a good thing.

  3. I still feel the best thing the UK got from Brexit was the ability to tell the foreigners to fuck off. This case being an obvious example.

    But of course I always feel that xenophobes are far, far, far too left wing.

  4. Bloke in North Dorset

    Boganboy,

    Indeed, but those with Brexit Derangement Syndrome think that not having to queue at an immigration desk for 15 minutes is far more valuable.

  5. @Boganboy – April 18, 2024 at 9:11 am

    I still feel the best thing the UK got from Brexit was the ability to tell the foreigners to fuck off.

    Unfortunately, it appears that our government and Civil Service are utterly incapable of so doing!

  6. But it is, at least, a possible idea because Brexit. Staying within the Common Fisheries Policy would have meant the decision is impossible.

    Apparently we have stayed within a legal construct whereby the EU can challenge our supposedly sovereign decisions, so the idea is only possible at the whim of some other foreign arena (or, probably worse, an unaccountable domestic one).

  7. Theophrastus (2066)

    The advantages of Brexit include:

    1. Being free from an obsessively centralizing, politically dangerous, economically protectionist, undemocratic, imperial project.

    2. Being able to remove/introduce taxes and regulations without reference to Brussels.

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