Brexit.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Question - Existential Comics

 

[Chin Rey]

Johnson and his government are responsible for hundreds and thousands of unnecessary deaths, too, because of their repeated incompetence and responsibility last year.

Endangering the Peace Process is far, far worse. I'm almost weeping with both rage and sorrow even thinking about it.

I understand your frustration but there's no need to worry. The Northern Ireland protocol is out of Johnson's hand and there's nothing he or the British government can do about it. They know it too for a change. For all their bold talks, what the government actually does, is work flat out to implement the protocol.

 

[Arkady Arkright]

But it's all going so well ! /s
Brexit: Sales of milk and cream to EU down 96% and chicken and beef by almost 80%
Von der Leyen warns UK that EU will not hesitate to act if Brexit deal breached

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

France threatens to cut off power to Jersey in post-Brexit fishing row

French minister raises electricity supply as point of leverage in dispute over access to UK waters

www.theguardian.com

 

[Stora]

Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks

EU member states have used illegal operations to push back at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe’s borders during the pandemic, methods being linked to the death of more than 2,000 people, the Guardian can reveal.

Revealed: 2,000 refugee deaths linked to illegal EU pushbacks

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Tory quarrels determined UK’s post-Brexit future, says Barnier

Revealed: EU chief negotiator’s diaries, The Great Illusion, give blow-by-blow account of moves behind UK’s departure

www.theguardian.com

The UK’s early problem, writes Michel Barnier in The Great Illusion, his 500-page account, was that they began by “talking to themselves. And they underestimate the legal complexity of this divorce, and many of its consequences.”

Soon, however, the talking turned to Conservative party infighting, and by the end it had become “political piracy … They will go to any length. The current team in Downing St is not up to the challenges of Brexit nor to the responsibility that is theirs for having wanted Brexit. Simply, I no longer trust them.”

(I never have, since I recognise the kind of people Johnson and his team are, and have long despised them).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France

Boris Johnson dispatches two patrol vessels to protect island from feared blockade

www.theguardian.com

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

This is like the "Cod Wars" with Iceland we used to have.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

So if cutting off electricity was disproportionate, is it now proportionate after the UK sent warships? Asking for a France friend.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So if cutting off electricity was disproportionate, is it no proportionate after the UK sent warships? Asking for a France friend.

I think the idea is to head off French trawlermen, who are said to be planning to blockade Jersey harbour (it's a thing French trawlermen do, like blocking roads with your tractor or your truck, and in this case the RN are standing in for the Gendarmerie or CRS).

I hope we're not planning to re-enact Trafalgar, but with Johnson at the helm, as it were, who knows?

 

[Arkady Arkright]

UK sends navy vessels to Jersey amid post-Brexit fishing row with France

Boris Johnson dispatches two patrol vessels to protect island from feared blockade

www.theguardian.com

Before we let some our (very few) warships go anywhere near the French coast, perhaps we should bear in mind which country made the aeroplane and missile that sunk HMS Sheffield in 1982...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Before we let some our (very few) warships go anywhere near the French coast, perhaps we should bear in mind which country made the aeroplane and missile that sunk HMS Sheffield in 1982...

I don't think they're going anywhere near the French coast, though -- the problem is at St Helier:

UK sends gunboats to Jersey as 80 French vessels protest in St Helier

Downing Street dispatches naval vessels to ‘monitor situation’ amid row over post-Brexit rules on fishing rights

www.theguardian.com

 

[Arkady Arkright]

I don't think they're going anywhere near the French coast, though -- the problem is at St Helier:

Which is just 20 miles from the French coast, and 150 miles from the nearest French air-force base - well within the range of whatever has replaced the Super Étendard as their prime anti-shipping weapon.

(I'm not seriously suggesting it would happen, by the way, just discussing theoretical possibilities. Personally I think it was all engineered by Boris so he could say he'd 'sent the gunboats in' on election day...)

 

[Arkady Arkright]

The plot thickens... Emmanuel Macron sends French gunboat to Jersey as tensions rise in fishing protest

 

[Free]

The plot thickens... Emmanuel Macron sends French gunboat to Jersey as tensions rise in fishing protest

Americans: Why are the French attacking New Jersey?!

 

[Stora]

French fishermen leave Jersey after post-Brexit rights protest

A protest over post-Brexit rights by French fishermen at Jersey's main port has ended, following talks that aimed to resolve the row.
About 60 boats protested at St Helier port and two Royal Navy ships and two French vessels were sent to the area.
French fishermen say their rights are unfairly restricted by licences issued under the Channel Island's new system.

French fishermen leave Jersey after post-Brexit rights protest

 

[Innula Zenovka]

French fishermen leave Jersey after post-Brexit rights protest



French fishermen leave Jersey after post-Brexit rights protest

 

[Beebo Brink]

I'm having flashbacks, don't know why....

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The fun thing is that France has a military joint force with the UK in place in order to save money.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Americans: Why are the French attacking New Jersey?!

The probably want the statue of liberty back.