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So many good points.
1. We sold our fishing rights. Privatised them, then sold them to EU businesses
2. Many ships sail under "flags of convenience", so are technically UK though owned by EU businesses
3. If sailing from a UK port, they employ Brits and work from UK
... https://twitter.com/ThornfieldHall/status/1337713523196104704
1. We sold our fishing rights. Privatised them, then sold them to EU businesses
2. Many ships sail under "flags of convenience", so are technically UK though owned by EU businesses
3. If sailing from a UK port, they employ Brits and work from UK
... https://twitter.com/ThornfieldHall/status/1337713523196104704
We would need to break international property law (ie ignoring those legally owned fishing rights) in so many ways that we'd be pariahs.
International commerce laws make the global economy predictable: you know your investment won't be stolen.
If we break those laws ...
International commerce laws make the global economy predictable: you know your investment won't be stolen.
If we break those laws ...
...we would undermine the security of every globally operating business.
How can, for example, Dyson know its factory in Malaysia won't be seized by Malaysian govt if the UK shows its ok to simply steal the legally owned property of another country?
This is insane...
How can, for example, Dyson know its factory in Malaysia won't be seized by Malaysian govt if the UK shows its ok to simply steal the legally owned property of another country?
This is insane...
... and all for an industry which employs fewer people than Debenhams (which we noticeably didn't spend billions to save); and which cannot grow, because we've already overfished so much that North Sea Cod is classed as "economically extinct"...
In summary, if you're still falling for this, you're as thick as a whale sandwich. You've been had, you klutz. You've been sold a con, its unravelling before your very eyes, and that noise you hear is the conmen wheeling in more cons to keep you from noticing the first one.
