Samanfur wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 1:49 pm
My husband (software tester) works for a branch of his current employer that's based primarily in Guernsey (you can draw your own conclusions about their tax affairs).
He's watching things carefully at the moment, since the threats to the electricity supply could definitely make things complicated.
That's why God invented the UPS and the Honda generator.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 3:07 pm
by Crabcakes
Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 12:44 pm
I'm confident that someone on here (Arrer, I'm looking at you) will be able to furnish us with details of the relative strengths of the French and British armed forces. My money's on the cheese eating surrender monkeys being stronger.
We have us. France has their forces, and all their EU colleagues who would doubtless help.
Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 12:44 pm
I'm confident that someone on here (Arrer, I'm looking at you) will be able to furnish us with details of the relative strengths of the French and British armed forces. My money's on the cheese eating surrender monkeys being stronger.
We have us. France has their forces, and all their EU colleagues who would doubtless help.
Whoops.
Plus NATO members are bound by treaty not to attack other members. Any action against France would be suicidal for the UK.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 4:47 pm
by Oboogie
Killer Whale wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 1:56 pm
The Channel Islands have never been in the EU, so didn't leave. How is this even happening? Anyone got a précis for those of us preoccupied by our national elections?
This might help.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 5:54 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Killer Whale wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 1:56 pm
The Channel Islands have never been in the EU, so didn't leave. How is this even happening? Anyone got a précis for those of us preoccupied by our national elections?
In essence, the dispute has nothing to do with Brexit and is everything to do with Brexit.
The complex pattern of fishing rights around and in between the Channel Islands has been a vexed question for centuries. Such rights were outside the EU Common Fisheries Policy.
In 2000, Britain and the Channel Islands government signed an agreement with France (The Treaty of the Bay of Granville) which established a pattern of rights for French boats up to 3 miles from the islands’ coasts. Last year, Britain and the islands said they were terminating the treaty as part of the “it’s all our fish now” policy as the end of Brexit transition approached. An interim deal was reached.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 6:31 pm
by Youngian
The French fishermen didn’t really say that, did they?
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 6:36 pm
by Spoonman
Youngian wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 6:31 pm
The French fishermen didn’t really say that, did he?
Of course not. That headline was likely banged out by a DM reporter believing they're in a sailor outfit, gagging for the opportunity to send pleb bodies in for war games.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 6:47 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Youngian wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 6:31 pm
The French fishermen didn’t really say that, did he?
QTWTAIN
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 7:36 pm
by Youngian
These French men of the sea might well be familiar with the Battle of Trafalgar but they’d know the outcome as well.
Re: It's WAR!!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 8:52 pm
by Bones McCoy
Youngian wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 7:36 pm
These French men of the sea might well be familiar with the Battle of Trafalgar but they’d know the outcome as well.
