How Brexit failed Britain's fishing industry | Times Reports

[@TheTimes]

Has Brexit failed the UK's fishing industry? Have your say in the comments 👇

[@Beansswtf]

Brexit didn't fail anything, Boris did.

[@davefave4351]

​​@@Beansswtf You remember 'project fear' where we warned you what would happen? It's happening, isn't it? EVERYTHING we warned you about is actually happening! You were mugged mate and are either too proud to admit or too stupid to realise. Which are you Beanie?

[@japaneseimmersion7263]

Brexit was the solution to get back control of the fishing waters, but the UK government was too incompetent to do anything despite regaining that control. UK needs new competent leadership.

[@wengelder9256]

The fishing industry killed itself by outsourcing quota to Spanish and Dutch companies , before and after brexit . Farage should know . He was in the eu fisheries committee … well at least one meeting

[@terrancedactielle5460]

Brexit is a failure, no government could make trade barriers and increased red tape with our biggest trading partners work. Farage promised the earth and delivered bugger all.

[@Pierrick2009]

Who’d have thought that an island nation imposing an economic blockade on itself would suffer negative consequences. If only some experts had warned them.

[@joecurran2811]

😂

[@AdrianSams]

If only that were true. The UK runs a trade deficit with the EU of around £100 billion a year. The UK economically is going ok, better than many in the EU. How's the German economy going? Franc'es debt to GDP at 112%.Greek debt to gdp 162%, Spain debt to GDP 110%,Italy debt to GDP at 138% of GDP............ Yeah it's awful over here in the UK under this blockade 🤣🤣🤣 . Not perfect by any means but you're in denial if you think the EU is in a good place.

[@joecurran2811]

@@AdrianSams Germany's debt to GDP 59.8%

[@AdrianSams]

@@joecurran2811 Yep and Germany is the biggest economy now go and check out France's debt to GDP, Spain debt to GDP ,Greek Debt to GDP, Italian debt to GDP. By some distance the German,French,Spanish and Italian economies are the biggest in the EU. 3 out of 4 of those economies are economic basket cases. The only ones who are net contributors (Germany aside) are either small economically or net recipient of EU (German,French,Dutch) money. Has the penny dropped yet?. Clue : If all but 1 of the EU economies that actually matter are in huge amounts of debt and barely growing economically then explain what is so great about the EU model and what the future is likely to be. These same economies have been members for decades. Then we can debate.

[@stephenconway2468]

@@AdrianSams The UK lost 13% of the value of it's currency. That was never made up for and won't be. So when you quote figures try and understand them. The UK's "growth" is achieved by excluding the cost of trade. It is achieved by such things a gold which grew solely because the price went up and we just trade it. The difference in price just leaves our shores.

[@michaelbraxner7781]

"British fish is the best ... Everyone wants British fish" ... yeah ... except that for the last 50 years that "British" fish was actually Norwegian fish, since no one in Britain wanted ACTUAL British fish, caught in British waters. Sorry, but that's still the same daft rhetoric as before the Brexit vote ... when WILL they finally learn?

[@richymoto]

"British fish is the best ..." i recently saw a interview with a British oyster farmer. He was talking about the effort he has to make, to get his oyster clear out all the human waste, that they have consumed in the "pristine" UK waters before. After that, my appetite for British fish got a little damper

[@87vortex87]

Exactly my thought. They're doing nothing special, they cast a net, well good for them.

[@vencik_krpo]

Brits didn't eat British fish much, that's true, but us Europeans did. I love mackerel. And while you were in the EU, it was easy to sell British fish to us. So that's how it worked---your catch was sold in the EU, Scandinavian fish in Britain. That broke since 1/ it now takes too much time to export fish caught in British waters and 2/ the water quality isn't adequate and purification used to be done in the EU. All that was known before Brexit; but people were convinced that there will be a great Brexit deal---the cake-ist utopia. Whomever pointed these problems out was labelled as unpatriotic, Project Fear proponent and eventually one who doesn't believe in Brexit enough---as the thing literally became a religion. And here in Europe, we stared open-mouthed at a nation, which we always considered rational and down-to-earth, turned into a bunch of crazy cultists.

[@richymoto]

@@vencik_krpo "crazy cultists" ... not all people inthe UK are like that ... but is a nice description for a lot of them

[@vencik_krpo]

@@richymoto Yes, I know... The trouble is that (as always) the most crazy and cultist are also the loudest. A vocal minority shadowing the normal (but silent) majority.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Wasn’t Farage on the EU fisheries committee when he was an MEP ? Did he , or did he not , attend the committee only once ? Did he claim that attending was a waste of time ? Was he paid to attend to represent U.K. fisherman’s interests ?

[@ragnor56]

Farage is the modern day "Lord Haw haw " except he's an Establishment mouthpiece stirring up social unrest !

[@madelineantill1417]

Yes - all too true. He has no idea how to make things work - only how to break them. He took the pay but didn't do the job and now he is clinging on to his EU pension - whilst trying to become an MP - where he will no doubt stitch everyone up again.

[@iansmith2997]

Our industry was knackered before him.

[@Arltratlo]

no, he worked for Putin...!

[@rochester212]

Farage doesn't give an F about anyone but himself. He screwed his own country so hard, not that the local idiots realized it, they're still voting for him for some reason!

[@paulneedham3608]

Yes the Government as failed the fishing Industry. But the Fisher men were always moaning about the EU and we want our waters back. They voted for Bixit. So they only have themselves to blame.

[@AdrianSams]

The fishing industry were always moaning about the EU and rightly so. The CFP (Common fisheries Policy) gave the UK only 40% of teh fish quota in our own waters. Add to that the fact that when UK boats went over to French waters to fish for scallops the French attacked UK boats and yet the EU did nothing. The CFP which is there to manage stocks also failed to preserve fish stocks in the Med. In many areas of the Med there are no fish so when the EU did finally act and impose a ban to help fish stocks recover the French,Spanish etc had a paddy and the EU caved it. You really should educate yourself on teh subject before gobbing off............. Prat

[@guyspearing4608]

@@AdrianSams So how's the fishing industry going now, then? Have you been down to the Farage garage in Dover to see how those scallops wait for hours in bureaucratic controls? Problem is that now we can't sell the fish!

[@andrew30m]

@@AdrianSams Blaming the EU bureaucrats for the decisions made by sovereign governments shows you don’t understand what the EU is. Scientists have been warning about stocks for decades, the EU have been calling for cuts for decades, the national governments including the UK not once agreed to the levels required.

[@irwinsaltzman979]

Never understood the fishing business decision to leave the EU. The fish most caught off British waters are not consumed by UK and they lost fishing rights around Norway. The fish in the Norway waters are used for fish and chips .

[@AdrianSams]

@@guyspearing4608 I live in a fishing community on the South Coast. Our fleet are making a living but are very critical of the deal . The issues you raise are purely implemented as punishment by the EU and especially the French. Plenty of fish being bought around the South Coast. Where do you live Guy?.

[@chrismartin2034]

Who would have thought so? Boris Johnson seemed so trustworthy

[@Only-one-life-68]

I voted for him blonde that is. My gosh,I was so wrong.. Yet the 2 that followed were !! Well 💩 That’s the word..

[@noelfleming3567]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@molecatcher3383]

Betrayal, lies and cheating are part of his DNA.

[@pedrosabino6441]

Your comment is a joke, right? Because it was more than obvious! Everyone warned about this!!

[@jameshacker8808]

@@pedrosabino6441I think it is sarcasm

[@Arltratlo]

they got exactly what they voted for..... and the EU isnt responsible for their decision, the Brits alone are responsible..... and Fartage and his Russian backers!

[@Brynmawrhill]

To be fair, it was the ~1/3rd of British voters who voted for Brexit. Very nearly as many voted against.

[@spidos1000]

@@Brynmawrhill and less than 1/3 voted to remain. What's your point?

[@Brynmawrhill]

@@spidos1000 That "the Brits" is simply wrong. It implies that the Brits, as a whole, were in favour of and thus responsible for, Brexit. The campaign against Brexit, which brought some of the largest ever marches to the streets of British cities, showed just how committed to the EU very many Britons are - and very many more are today after the terrible experience of Brexit. So a fair statement would be: "the Brexit voters got exactly what they voted for..... and the EU isn't responsible for their decision, the Brexit-supporting Brits alone are responsible..... and Fartage and his Russian backers!"

[@levansaginashviliskidney8726]

​@@Brynmawrhill🤓🏳️‍🌈

[@leroysimon5692]

👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

[@kb4903]

Mugs who blamed EU for their problems and believed in the magic beans being sold.

[@Packyboy]

really not trying to be rude here but reality is that they were ignorant mugs!

[@leroysimon5692]

👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

[@Patmofar]

I have every sympathy for the unfortunate British people who got sucked into the Brexit fiasco. However the fishermen are one group that I have no sympathy for. Those fishermen had no problem with the decimation of the fishing industry, had no problem with fishermen being poorer and had no problem with the likelihood of jobs being lost in the industry. No problem at all just so long as it was EU fishermen who were suffering. I remember seeing Grimbsy fishermen on television with Pied Piper Farage and them laughing and gloating, yes gloating at how they were going to destroy the EU fishing industry post Brexit. Karma, wonderful karma!!!

[@BenHifni]

Fish around and find out.

[@louis-philippearnhem6959]

Indeed it was a selfish and jingoistic vote. Same for the farmers.

[@JohnnyinMN]

The Brits failed themselves with their religious levels of self-importance. Don’t blame others. Look in the mirror instead.

[@LordArthex]

i believe the main reason for Brexit was that they didn't want to exchange their money into Euro, because they value their sterling pound so much, with their blue blood pics, at least that's what i remember

[@WunnSEN]

@@LordArthex One of the main reasons for Brexit and why it was voted for was FULL control of our own borders... We're still in the ECHR. That says all you need to know on how the current government has FAILED to deliver Brexit and in fact did everything they could to prolong it. Brexit never failed, our government failed to deliver Brexit. That much is CRYSTAL CLEAR.

[@Aubrey2004-j4k]

@@WunnSENthe lot of you destroyed the country because of ridiculous nationalism. How’s that sovereignty going for you? You are still stuck in the glory empire days and you voted leave because you thought the British empire was still a thing. Newsflash you need other countries, you cut off Europe for what exactly?

[@Aubrey2004-j4k]

@@WunnSENwhy tf would you want to leave an organisation that stands for human rights?

[@WunnSEN]

@@Aubrey2004-j4k If you're that stupid to believe that, then nothing i say will convince you otherwise. ECHR have proven time and time again they're corrupt and one of THEE reasons the UK is in decline due to it's population explosion. That's fact.

[@rubberbuggybumper...821]

They were warned and still voted for brexit. Boris Johnson was a well know liar and they still voted for Brexit. Sorry but Stupidity doesn't deserve respect, so live with it...

[@Cardifftoyboy1]

You were warned by the Governor and board of the Bank of England. The Independent actuaries.. The heads of almost all the FTSE 100 companies. But you chose to listen to politicians.. A self serving reality TV star and the BREXIT party which was actually a private company. What could have possibly gone wrong?

[@MrWhitmen1981]

Terrorism is down.

[@MichaelClarke75]

We are fishing less so EU fisherman are doing better. The complete reverse of what Farage and Boris promised.....and people are going to vote REFORM. There is no helping this country.

[@Valecto]

At this point, it's just easier to accept that we can't fix stupid

[@Fastbikkel]

The first ever time i saw and heard Farage talk i already doubted him. He was just too outspoken and "convinced". I stick with the expression that the best politicians are usually the most boring ones with the unpopular stories.

[@domenicodevivo5318]

Can't they all retrain as fruit pickers?

[@drosophilamelanogaster3957]

Or truck drivers.

[@matthewcook9404]

Farage was elected by voters to represent them in the European Parliament - and he failed them spectacularly. Up to June 2016, UKIP leader Nigel Farage had the worst voting record of any active MEP in European Parliament. Analysis of the MEP voting records placed Farage 745th out of 746 MEPs on the register - with only Brian Crowley, a MEP in Ireland who has NEVER voted, below him. It’s almost as though he couldn’t care less about the will of the people who he represented, but used the mandate given to him to play petty politics.

[@markhodge3112]

I would point out that Brian Crowley was in a wheelchair since the age of 16 and was suffering from ill health in the latter years as MEP and unable to attend .

[@michaelbright9162]

I have never heard of Brian Crowley. Which party did he represent in the EU parliament?

[@michaelbright9162]

I understand he now wants to move the NHS to an insurance based model. Who will benefit from that. That will leave a significant portion of the population with no health cover.

[@matthewcook9404]

@@michaelbright9162 Fianna Fail.

[@Fastbikkel]

" and he failed them spectacularly." Yet too many still support him ;-)

[@trevaudio]

Who was the British mep on the eu fisheries commission for all those years ??? Attended just one meeting ?!?!

[@Valecto]

Surname starting with "Far" and ending with "age" ?

[@trevaudio]

@@Valecto Correct

[@AB-zl4nh]

UKIP MEP. I never voted for UKIP, I voted for Labour MEPs because I wanted a progressive EU that did things to help people.

[@patrickokeeffe539]

You left the EU, the EU looks after its members, why would they give the UK a higher quota,

[@marksavage1108]

Higher quota OF OUR OWN FISH.

[@gedreillyhomestead6926]

If the EU got the F out of British territorial waters, we wouldn't need your quotas.

[@ab-ym3bf]

​​@@gedreillyhomestead6926European states have been fishing each others waters for centuries, nothing to do with the EU. That is also the reason that brexit did not change as much in the fishing quota as brexit liars were saying. All based on treaties pré-dating the EU.

[@Valecto]

@@marksavage1108 Britons don't eat the type of fish available in UK waters... that's why "taking back control" of UK waters was never going to work.

[@marksavage1108]

@@Valecto LIAR LIAR LIAR,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, What is the best fish to eat in the North Sea? The focus of fishing is on mackerel, cod, haddock, saithe, herring, plaice and sole. Mussels, oysters and crabs complete the maritime offer. Among the most popular delicacies are plaice fresh from the cutter and crabs, which strictly speaking are shrimp......

[@marksimons8861]

If you fell for the Brexit con trick, don't fall for Reform. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[@robertcornelius8056]

The government negotiated BRINO . We are still in the EU but without member benefits . Please don’t say that what May and Johnson negotiated was anything other than a new straight jacket

[@olleani]

@@robertcornelius8056 So you think you can negotiate agreements with others without others having anything to say? So everyone has to comply what you want but you don't have to comply to others?

[@lone20wolf]

They will fall once again First Farage told EU is the problem. Britain shoud exit EU, Brexit will solve all problems. Now he switched it to Immigrants once you stop that also it will switch to the blacks muslims already in Britain. There is always something to hate on and people gullible enough to polarize.

[@jz9991z]

There was a massive increase in support for Reform so yeah people will fall for it again in the future.

[@Brynmawrhill]

@@robertcornelius8056 All trade agreements, indeed all international agreements except those imposed by colonial powers on their possessions, require a loss of sovereignty. Only now we have to negotiate such agreements from a position of much greater weakness than before Brexit. Ask our farmers.

[@MrTomtomtest]

Turn it into a "How Brexit failed Britain's XY industry" series and you've got 1000 episodes right there xD

[@kimwit1307]

Brexit was never going to help UK fishing.

[@i-Sandy]

Brexit was like shooting at own foot. Everything is costlier. Trust me fish is now out of reach for commons it's now a luxury.

[@pellicciapasquale4296]

how much cost one kg fish like tuna?

[@HusseinKarbasi]

You reap what you sow. #Brexit

[@runeeskesen5920]

British fish the best? Everybody wants British fish? This is the dillusional thinking bordering on madness. If people can get convinced by such rhetoric,they can be convinced by anything they want.

[@haraldschuster3067]

Especially British fish caught in Norwegian waters ... well ... I guess for some people the Empire still exists and a stiff upper lip with a pointed gun will get a plucky Englishman everything he desires. They still haven't come to terms that their "great empire" and "financial prowess" and "business acumen" did rely 100% on the exploitation of their colonies. And they still managed to squander most of the money they stole. Like the US they don't want to be part of something, they want to be the one in control. The EU is better off without them. Enjoy your Brexit, re-form the Commonwealth under strong British rule and rebuild your Empire. I'm sure your former colonies will flock back to you once they see reason, being ashamed that they mistakenly thought they might be better of being independent.

[@supreme_overlord]

Fishing industry voted for brexit and destroyed themselves. "Sunlit uplands". Welcome to the brexit!

[@NAGZE]

😮🙃

[@timtaylor2427]

I am not sorry for them....they all voted LEAVE without thinking what it really means....NOW they have to suffer that...... THINK before to believe someone => Thats´s it

[@Fastbikkel]

I just feel sorry for the people that voted against brexit. They are victimized here.

[@tonycook7679]

The market for the UK fish was the EU, what on earth did he think was going to happen? The EU sells the fish that the British like to eat and it has for a very long time. That fish has flown the coop, to mix a perfectly good metaphor.

[@raymondwebb4179]

I bet the fishermen vote reform, this time round,

[@dooley-ch]

Yep, that would be their second IQ test fail. Reform has nothing offer but, self interest, racism and gimmicks.

[@terrancedactielle5460]

I hope they're not stupid enough to fall for Farrages lies twice buy who knows.

[@raymondwebb4179]

@@terrancedactielle5460 they will same as the Clacton folks, more to the country’s ills than boat people , But we shall see,

[@trevaudio]

Why would they do a stupid thing like that ?

[@raymondwebb4179]

@@trevaudio why not ,they fell for it before. why not again, ,

[@pvught390]

Four years after Brexit, the British are still waiting for the benefits of Brexit.

[@atilla4352]

only the fishes got saved

[@B1gstar14]

The power of the Faridge rhetoric. So many were conned. And yet he keeps rolling on. It’s mystifying

[@ValerioQuatrano]

I love when people pay the consequences of their stupid choices

[@khalidjavid3271]

They Deserve Everything They Get for Their Stupid Actions

[@Elfdustify]

Unfortunately, we all have to pay.

[@mikew42906]

Yes the Germans have a word for it.

[@geemo4284]

What about when everyone else pays for the stupidity of other people’s choices? Does that make you happy too, or do you have room in your heart for a little compassion?

[@pellicciapasquale4296]

,ayb brexit will be the first cause of european union state

[@JohanNordin-bq4tz]

Theres no fish left, so we need a bigger quota????😂😂😂😂. And this guy is allowed to vote???

[@knightsnight5929]

He did vote, that is the whole problem.

[@theon9575]

LOL. Who was the wit who commented that Democracy always seems a good idea until you meet up with the average voter? It applies to the politicians they elect too. No idea! The blind electing the incompetent. The best/saddest example recently was the UK's Government's (mis)management of the recent Covid epidemic which was led by a man, B Johnson, with zero knowledge of virology and epidemiology and, worse still, would take no advice from public health experts. This led to unnecessary deaths of older residents in nursing homes, for example..

[@theon9575]

@@knightsnight5929 Well, maybe just a large part of the problem. Another significant part of the problem is rarely mentioned: that is the large number eligible to vote but who did not vote because decided that the Brexit referendum wasn't important enough to be bothered getting off their lazy butts and going to vote. Including many younger people who are now complaining about their reduced opportunities, but whose vote could have outweighed the older Brexit voters had they bothered to show up.

[@ECECECECEC]

But didn’t the traitors do well.

[@FRANKIECULLEN-r3g]

yip farage and the gammon did well.

[@wallace-bv4rl]

British fish caught in the Arctic…

[@pedroleitao5102]

People always vote out of ignorance because most people have no political awareness and cannot measure, even when obvious, the extent of the consequences of their own choices. Polititians didn't fail, people did!

[@WunnSEN]

With a name like "Pedro Leitão" You're most definitely not British nor English... As for "Polititians didn't fail, people did!" That tells me all i need to know about yourself.🤦‍♂

[@Elcore]

It's sort of a chicken and the egg situation. Bad politicians dismantle education and industry to keep people dumb and poor, dumb and poor people vote for bad politicians.

[@wallace-bv4rl]

Well it’s a tough view to sell as you see already but I’d agree in as far as all the politicians I hear these days are pretty populist and certainly don’t “lead” in any particular direction

[@geemo4284]

I would say the education system failed - it is designed to produce people who don’t ask questions, but believe everything they’re told and it does a very good job of it.

[@geemo4284]

@@WunnSEN, why is it relevant if the poster is English, or not? They may know lots about the economy in the UK? They may have lived in the UK. What has that to do with anything at all?

[@ScottKraenzlein]

"...Official statistics on the economic output of the fishing industry are volatile and can be significantly revised from year to year. According to the ONS, in 2021, the sector contributed around 0.03% of total UK economic output and around 5% of the broader agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors...".

[@jerryorange6983]

Tough one. People don't want to go back and the EU has no interest to give any fishing jobs to 3rd parties. Why would Norway give away their fish when they can ban the UK fishermen and sell fish to the UK directly? We cannot expect miracles from the politicians. We live in a new reality and there are winners and losers.

[@MrMessiah44]

Small handful of winners, predominantly tories and Co.

[@jerryorange6983]

@@MrMessiah44 some. The worst is that those who can't see the future just live like Dyson or Mogg with his funds so they are not going to be affected at all.

[@stoney202]

Actually most polls predict quite a large vote in favour of re-joining if another referendum was called.

[@jerryorange6983]

@@stoney202 people might want but the politicians know that this ship has gone and will never return so the only thing they can do is to start reversing what they can to minimise the cost of Brexit. Believe me the UK is not seen as an attractive party for the EU anymore. Now it's the EU of Germany and France. The Eastern Europe is a market for Germany and South for France. They don't need the competitor who brings nothing to the table. Nothing the Brexiters proved that. Britain doesn't have the power anymore to get new markets. The EU has negotiated better deals than the UK in many cases. The current deal with the UK is too good for the EU to change it. So people might want what they want but it's irrelevant.

[@kodalastarine3138]

​@@stoney202 Oh well, your polls can say what they like, can't they? Your people, even. Your real concern isn't convincing yourselves to ask to come back. It's convincing the Europeans to take you back. And when I see the number of comments here describing the EU as an "unlected" government, your people are so far removed from understanding how it works... You still have 20 years to get rid of these idiots and re-educate your population.

[@peteredwards338]

How treacherous politicians and civil servants betrayed the British fishing industry perhaps ?

[@thunderflower7998]

Same game all over the native European countries....all sucked in....all betrayed...all standing there and swallowing the so called , falsely,European democracy....hahaha.. Since when one calls representative parliamentary systems of governing DEMOCRATIC....IF THE NATIVES ARE NOT ASKED AFTER THE ELECTION OF SERVANTS TO SERVE THEM..NOT ASKED WHETHER THEY WANT THIS...OR THAT? IT HAS TO DO WITH THEIR COUNTRY..THIER CUKTURE..THEIR FUTURE..THEIR LAND!!!MOTHER AND FAYHER LAND!!! WAKE UP NATIVE EUROPEANS..WAKE UP ..WAKE UP

[@PankajDoharey]

People voted for Brexit. now they blaming politicians ?

[@MR-th1nf]

@@PankajDoharey The politicians have not explained brexit

[@tendaic2425]

Civil servants???

[@Only-one-life-68]

@@tendaic2425 The civil servants unfortunately run the country,kier will find this out.. It’s the civil servants we need to clear out..

[@eaubert1]

No offense, but the fishing industries are facing an existential crisis on a global scale. The fact that this British trawler has to travel to Svalbard, instead of the Norwegian coast also has to do with the fact that there are no more fish off the coast of populated areas.

[@californiadreamin8423]

While you make a plausible suggestion, please back it up with solid research data.

[@eaubert1]

@@californiadreamin8423 .... oh right! Overfishing is just a conspiracy and everything currently going wrong in Britain is the result of Brexit!

[@timoakley277]

Blunt reality is that the British government hasn't valued fising for decades, 5 decades. We British people dont vale fish. We dont eat it much. The end.

[@quacker998]

It’s not ‘British fish’ if it’s Norwegian is it?

[@colbr6733]

I was at the supermarket here in the Netherlands yesterday wondering how Australian and Canadian products including fish are on the shelves here but the British products aren't?

[@jamespark3510]

No sympathy for fishermen that voted for brexit, they make it sound they are a honest bunch but 'IF' it went according what was promied, UK would have ruined EU fishermens lives without a second thought................they got screwed over for trying to try take more then they were willing to share, simple really, Uk tried to draw the first blood and EU responded

[@BelfastBiker]

"They're taking our market". No, the Tories gave it to them. You'll never learn.

[@blossomyoung9615]

Didn't the Times tell those same people how great Brexit, and Johnson would be? And call any dissenting 'expert' on these things doomsayers and traitors? Maybe we need press reform so lies aren't sold to the public as undisputed fact, and the electorate can't be conned into voting against their interests again.

[@frankcarty]

British fish..... Caught off the coast of Norway?

[@lobonskerva5441]

I was and am a uk citizen who chose and chooses to live abroad ..I find it hard to feel any sympathy for fisherman and farmers who voted for brexit …against my interest…for their greed ..oh we will be alright.. enjoy yer brexit all the best from Spain

[@John-e5g4d]

Why were they so gullible?

[@davidtornabene516]

Because they are morons.

[@adamhall5298]

must be the gulls they grew on board

[@DaveMeuleman]

​@@adamhall5298"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea..."

[@jameslenney]

Super interesting that he says ‘the government’ conned the fishermen. Everyone’s forgotten the detail of the campaign and it makes you wonder who knew anything in the first place.

[@californiadreamin8423]

The Tories and their National Front N igel F arage clone , and their media backers, conned the Fisherman, and a lot more people too.

[@indibhart5731]

Brexit is a slow puncture! Worst mistake ever!

[@geemo4284]

I don’t know - it felt pretty much like an engine exploding to me.

[@specialized500]

British fish from Norway ? Norway is not in the EU . I feel sorry for the fishermen but they got what they voted for

[@JohnSmith-tz8jj]

UK Fishermen: " We jumped off this cliff but it didn't cross our minds that we would get hurt, because we are British!"

[@Mr1962fulgeorge]

The fishing industry is worth less than Games Workshop....where are the rallies to protect them?

[@Roque-Cachamuiña-gs1wd]

From Spain, I work in the fish marketing sector. Spain is one of the largest consumers of fish in the world. There are many species of fish that are not appreciated in the rest of Europe and that are highly priced here. I can never understand why English fishermen voted in favour of Brexit, when Europe and Spain in particular were the destination of most of their catches and at prices they had never dreamed of. I remember that when Spain joined the EU our fishermen complained about the competition from fresh fish brought in from Great Britain. Today, our largest supplier of fresh fish outside the EU is Morocco, which has replaced Great Britain, with fish of equal quality and better price. Other great beneficiaries have been French fishermen. My company still imports fish caught by British fishermen, but in much smaller quantities and paying lower prices at source than those paid before Brexit. The biggest problem with bringing fish from Great Britain is not the customs bureaucracy, it is that the comercial chain has been broken. Before Brexit, there were Spanish buyers based in Great Britain, joint ventures, regular fish transport... now everything is less normalized. British fishermen, as we say in Spain, have thrown stones on their own roof

[@devanman7920]

This is why I can't back Farage in the slightest and get worried when I see his popularity coming back. He did all this, got Brexit and then just left when the difficult part was actually was coming up. Theres no substance to the man.

[@josevicentemartins9085]

Not only fishing industry has failed. More bad news will come. BEGRET

[@raymondwebb4179]

They enjoyed being lied to, in there hearts they new something was wrong, they listened to farage, as the people of Clacton are doing now,

[@frobo223]

Did any brexiteer watch this video? The comments are an absolute joke, the fishermen are literally saying they were better off in EU.......

[@robertbslee4209]

Clarification What this fisherman is saying is, British fishman want EU and Norwegian Quota not the worthless British fish in British waters! What the Brexit fisherman really wanted was more EU and Norwegian quota after Brexit lol!

[@bycromsbeard]

3:30: "A lot of the fisherman was conned" a very good summary of Brexit, the greatest con ever pulled.

[@henrydwaldingjr3103]

The chickens are coming home to roost .

[@hshdudhshduduxubes1162]

Chickens voted for christmas and now complaining that christmas has come...

[@dongore2739]

It‘s sad to see what „Taking back control“ really means…

[@GerryPowell-r6s]

Yet Farage is such an honest and good man after all Clacton voted for him.

[@taranvainas]

It is their Achilles heel: their supposed British exceptionalism.

[@commonsense31]

It used to be 250 ships and now they only need 1 to catch, process and freeze more fish than those 250 boats combined!

[@bigd4561]

Promises, promises, promises... and who is responsible? Nobody. In the end, it's the little people who were taken for a ride. Suckers we are. 😮

[@bobbymozza]

Was the fishing industry doing well before Brexit? Had it been in decline for years?

[@samueldocski4426]

It has. They are just quick to take Brexit and use it as a scapegoat. The corrupt politicians are to blame for decades of decline in all industries. They use scapegoating as their tactic to push blame on anything but their corruption.

[@tendaic2425]

They were told leaving would INCREASE their fishing by liars as posh conmen. And one of those liars is back lying again and conning people all over again.

[@seankelly3774]

Johnson and Farage just turbo charged the decline with their brexit lies.

[@GeliCarlosJ]

The consequences of your actions 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Dmanz67]

They were told.

[@manwingchi9156]

Still think British is British Empire, No more, British has to work with others countries to survive. Can't work alone nowaday. 😮😮😮

[@MrShikaga]

Can you please add proper subtitles to your videos. It’s not expensive, and it’s a lot more inclusive.

[@ThorstenKreutzenberger]

Leave the fish alone. Fiexit must come after Brexit. Save the fish.

[@majuli8420]

So you're an island that is depending on trade. And you chose to cut yourself off from the most beneficial trade regime in the world. Hm, what could possibly go wrong?

[@DarthQueefious]

Correction: How the Traitorous Tories failed Britain's fishing industry

[@mwd331]

... by leaving the EU.

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@mwd331 NO by not completing brexit!!!! and it was the Tory government who sent millions to Holyrood to help the fishermen and they never got tha money as the SNP spirited it away!!!

[@MrShikaga]

@@tonyfraser1749 what are you talking about? Say what you will about Boris, he got Brexit done. We left the EU completely. What more did you want him to do?

[@tonyfraser1749]

@@MrShikaga What are you waffling about chum Boris indeed pushed brexit over the line, but that was against what around 75% of our so called MP's wanted including Tory's and that is why they got him out. But Brexit is not finished yet there has been no political will to take it further, and NO WE HAVE NOT LEFT COMPLETELY---ECHR RING A BELL??

[@MrShikaga]

@@tonyfraser1749Dude, the ECHR has nothing to do with the EU. The ECHR was setup in the 50s, 40 years prior to the formation of the EU. Do you think that just anything with the word “Europe” in it is part of the EU? And as far as I am aware, we never had any referendum on leaving the ECHR, so the government has no national mandate to do so. I am not saying they can’t, but I am saying that the ECHR has nothing to do with Brexit. Mate, Brexit is done. This is it. As you said, Boris pushed it over the line. The only people who have any right to complain now are those in NI, who are still in a customs union, but interestingly I hear very little complaint from them. Finally, Boris was not kicked out for Brexit. Brexit was long over by the time he resigned.

[@happychappy7115]

Fishing industry like farming voted LEAVE. Literally voted against their own businesses and interests. Was it stupidity or just believing the Cons lies - or both?😮Like Brexit, they got well and truly DONE!

[@ceemch]

This one fisherman with a very specialized type of boat! It not a broad picture of what going on in the British waters. I'm a farmer and sheep and beef prices have never been so good! France is buying more lamb than ever before and at great prices. This totally unexpected as sheep farmers should have been the worst effected!

[@oneoflokis]

​@@ceemchReally? What about all the red tape?

[@ceemch]

@@oneoflokis I can only speak specifically about my end, but I take my livestock to the auction ring same as I ever did and they send me the money in a few days! but the prices are really good!

[@ceemch]

@@oneoflokis in fairness we already have a very vigorous system in place with passports for each animal that can be tracked form birth to death in place. And being an island we are free from many diseases that are endemic on the continent

[@oneoflokis]

@@ceemch Well: good for you!

[@telanos2492]

I've seen many post Brexit impact videos now, and they all follow the same basic script: Brexit supporters in [Insert industry] thought Brexit would be good for them, and to their dismay, find out that its actually terrible. There is plenty of sad music to accompany the human interest focus on how hard-done by these same people are, and it would garner sympathy if it weren't for the fact that the actual audience for these videos, I suspect, are largely Remainers who come for a dose of schadenfreude. What none of the videos seems to talk about is what led up to people voting for something that seems so obviously self-destructive - and not just in retrospect. Basically everybody who could reasonably be labelled an expert was screaming warnings about Brexit, to little avail. The real story here, and the real continuing danger, is the persistent devaluing of expert opinion in favour of populist opinion. Who wants to hear that good governance means making tough choices that don't always sound great, when there are plenty of people selling the lie that you can indeed have your cake and eat it! As long as we continue to ignore expert opinion in favour of whatever happens to make us feel good, we can expect more Brexit-like decisions to come.

[@shinlanten]

*_"No body knew Brexit could be so complicated"_*

[@charlescrooke13]

‘The British government told us they’d take back fishing’ no they didn’t and it’s disturbing to see these people take no ownership of the problem they created. No lessons learnt from destroying the country.

[@bonkousmcnaughty4604]

Fishing quotas in the UK have risen to the tune of £101m per year

[@75Tades]

From Germany: i love the UK but i have no pity with these guys. Your fault that you believed liars as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage

[@kcobley]

Cod fishing isn't fishing it's mining seaweed forests, should be banned the trawlers sunk.

[@mrw2941]

How the politicians and the establishment conspired

[@robinl4975]

I mean, you get what you vote for..... The UK did nothing but whine and moan about the EU. The UK left, and the EU is stronger than never! I truly hope we never allow them to return!

[@pedropereira5512]

Even Napoleon failed to impose a continental blockade on Britain

[@edmaximum]

Brexit has negatively impacted the UK in many ways, not just the fishing industry. Perhaps it is time to rethink it?

[@iansmith2997]

The common fisheries policy killed it off. It favoured the continent more than us. That is what the EU did for us.

[@oneoflokis]

Hmm. Norway isn't in the EU..

[@bidentity69]

Indeed , but the real that allows EU fishing in Norwegian waters was negotiated by the EU . When we left we were no longer part of that deal. The video is really very poor . It doesn't explore the issues at all.

[@indibhart5731]

We aren’t Norway

[@oneoflokis]

@@bidentity69 I didn't think it did...

[@seankelly3774]

@@indibhart5731no but Farage said many times we could be like Norway if we leave the EU and then the vote came in and all of a sudden he wants a hard brexit. What a muppet he is but a great liar.

[@Jonpoo1]

Give us the same deal Norway has! They do have freedom of movement though…

[@Trevordg]

I prefer Mediterranean fish to "British" cod fished in Norwegian waters...honestly you shot yourself in the feet by believing the lies that were spewed on the EU. And oh the Irony, eating last night dinner in Malta (EU) and listening to 4 pensioners who voted Brexit but live in Malta - hence in the EU. These are the people who decided to ruin your fishing industry.

[@Kaltai77]

I would also work as a bricklayer in England or Great Britain, you have such good salaries, I am ready to spend half of the salary.

[@Peter-d9p]

So...on the right-hand photo....which one is Farage?😂

[@Wayne-x1w]

Let's get back in the EU ffs 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@matthewstokes1608]

No - let’s not do that. Let’s get our fishing industry back. VOTE REFORM

[@dunnomate3587]

@@matthewstokes1608don’t you see the folly? They claimed Brexit would fix fishing it didn’t. Now Farage is claiming the same thing and he too will fail

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@dunnomate3587 the folly is all in the hands of those voted into power to execute the blessings of the marvelous hard-won gift of Brexit. Farage would have given us a massively enthusiastic country - with FULL fishing waters (something close to his heart) - and with total control of our borders - using Sovereign force if necessary. You seem to be totally brainwashed by the thieves inside our ‘temple’ and wholely unaware of the totalitarian brainwashing you have received by the monsters in power. Good Day!

[@Galathorn]

@@matthewstokes1608Years later, this country has nothing. No superb trade deals Still uncontrolled immigration Toxic politics I am an EU citizen and I cannot fathom that people still support NF’s vanity project.

[@matthewstokes1608]

@@dunnomate3587 my perfectly good reply was blocked by the uniparty

[@philjameson292]

Looks like British fishing got "its waters back" but it doesn't actually fish British waters. It actually fishes Norwegian waters If no British fishermen are fishing British waters then its going to give a great boost to the marine ecosystem

[@DrawnInk1]

As I understand it since leaving fishing stocks have risen 5%.

[@brunol.2002]

Boris likes fishes indeed 😂

[@roelkomduur8073]

UK fisheries LTD. is fully owned by Dutch Parlevliet & van der Plas....

[@sciencetruth7756]

And yet fools just gave Farage a seat at the table??!!

[@Ahgsb456]

Sometime the best way to learn is by the hard way of experiencing their own idiocy

[@mimitek6140]

So many lies told by Boris and Farage, fish industry let down badly

[@tonyt7372]

Wait a minute. This fishermen wants the government to fight for them? He voted with the government (tories) to leave the EU! I've always said " Be careful what you wish for. You might get it."

[@freshwaterspaceman7194]

Sunlit uplands? Nay! The seas around Svalbard in February, instead.