British town left frustrated by Brexit fishing failure | AFP
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- Once one of the world's leading fishing ports, the English town of Grimsby had hoped Brexit would turn the tide and halt its decline. Now, seven years on from the landmark referendum, in which 70% of the town voted to leave the EU, the mood among Grimsby's fishing industry is one of disappointment. "I wish Brexit never happened" says Nathan Goldley, a fishmonger.
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They got precisely what they voted for.
They wanted no rules, no quotas, freedom to overfish, destroy the seas.
That's why they voted for Brexit. Long may they enjoy the benefit of their own actions.
What they actually wanted was an end to Dutch super trawlers with electric shock nets hoovering everything up and ruining the sea bed.
Well said. They reap what they sow. Greedy bastards.
I love hearing the Brexit benefits 🤭
😂😂😂
You voted for it!
Still waiting for their unicorns.
Had the British fishermen not sold their quotas to the Europeans when quotas became a commodity
The greedy boat owners sold of their boats in the 60s and 70s. They made a short term win but it was a death bell for the town.
"No-one regrets it" Well no, because regretting would imply taking responsibility and admitting you were taken in.
What were they expecting to happen? The EU would just say "Of course you can carry on as before while closing UK waters to the people you sold your fishing rights to."?
They knew who their customers were. They knew trade barriers would decrease trade. There is no many explainations to such a blindness. There were motivated by a ideology so strong that I can't imagine nothing else than a mix of shelfishness and racism. And those need time to swallow.
They knew what they voted for too.
A fateful referendum like this should have a majority of 2/3 of YES votes, not just 51%. That wasn't wise.
@@Koeweit 2/3 is a must to be treated seriously by the EU. The last thing they need is the UK in and out every 4 years.
You did not EXPORT fish to France, you SENT fish to France, two words but a world of difference.
Now is too late😊
Schadenfreude for these people
I don’t think people regret it they're just disappointed in the results.. Statement of the century..
Even now he wont admit it.... no hope for these people.
He deserves everything that's ahead of him tbh
are you ok ? you dont regret something but you regret its consequences
BREXIT BABY !!
The reality is that UK fishing is mainly for the European market. That's 80% of the catch. The clients in France and Netherlands etc. can just decide to reduce their fish intake and eat home grown lamb or whatever. They can still eat some fish from the French waters if they want to.
So the UK has no bargaining power.
The history is that France, Denmark, Netherlands etc. always fished in these waters. We can complain about the Spanish doing the same now, but we fish just off Greenland and Canada.
What Grimsby did was understandable but they were not told the reality of the situation. It did not serve Farage to say that we will need to negotiate quotas and licences with the EU. It did not serve Farage to say that we'd increase the costs of exports and kill a lot of processing contracts based on imported fish.
Grimsby was desperate and that made them an easy target for those with some political axe to grind. If Farage did care he would have attended all those meetings in Brussels. He went to one of them.
Only shows how DEMOCRACY can be manipulated when voters are pure idiots
Not being told the reality of the situation doesn't really explain it. No serious business person would take their advice from a politician, even less from one on a political campaign.
To find out the implications of leaving the EU, they should have got information from the likes of the dept of agriculture, customs and excise, who would have told them the likely implications.
@@frankoneill5675 That information was there and available, but it was drowned out. Sadly, they did not act like serious businessmen but rather like desperate people looking for any answer...like a drowning man grabs at a floating straw.
@@stephenconway2468 I agree, but it was their choice to act like that. If you are in business you go to the proper authorities for information, not political campaigners. You want to know the real implications, the bad at least as much as the good.
Businesses generally hate uncertainty, and purely from a business point of view, given the multiple possible outcomes of Brexit, all of which would be detrimental to business to some extent, the only logical choice for any serious business was stay put, no matter what you thought of the EU personally.
It's no surprise that pretty much every business representative group in the UK, apart from fisheries, I think, thought that Brexit was mad.
@@frankoneill5675 I totally agree. Changing 40+ years of decisions and relationships and having no idea what is going to be affected... that is crazy. Volatility is the hardest thing to manage.
They were conned by Johnson and Farage.
They won. They should be happy.
They got what they wanted.
Deal with it.
They must be pretty thick in Grimsby t have voted 70% for Brexit, Enjoy your retirement folks.
I still find it hilarious the fishing industry thought brexit will allow them to 'fix more often, sell it for higher price and limit other nations from interfering with their process' LOL wouldn't other nations try to protect their own industry as well??? mind boggling really
Compassion for the conned, contempt for the con artists
why though .. should a voter not take responsibility for their vote? I also fully make Germans responsible who voted for the Nazi party in 1936 .. is it compassion for the conned there, too?
Everyone was lied to, everyone was told the truth. They made a choice, to believe the lies.
Turkeys voted for Christmas. ‘We don’t regret it’. Good job.
These people would still vote for farage and Borris all over again😅
We have to remember that far from being the most important fishing town in the UK which it is often touted as Grimsby is not the port with the largest landings in the UK; that distinction belongs to Peterhead which has combined fish landings greater than all the ports in England put together. Peterhead is also in a council area that like every other council area in Scotland voted remain in 2016. It is also a fact that English fishermen with the blessing of the UK government sold their quotas to"foreign"(including Scots as the EU had separate quotas for the nations of the UK due to factors such as fish stocks and species found)fishing companies leading to more than 60% of"English"quotas being held by non English fishermen. In Scotland by contrast the Scottish government whether Labour or SNP led vehemently discouraged the selling of quotas to fishing companies outside Scotland meaning that 94% of Scots quotas remained in the hands of Scottish fishermen
At least the Fish monger understood the consequences.
I made a sarcastic comment on this video and deleted it, because I think there is no reason for an easy attack on anyone, even if they deserve it. The only thing I will say is what my dad, now departed from this world, told me, "when you decide something, you need to assume your responsabilities for it, good, or bad", and what Marcus Aurelius wrote in his "Thoughts for myself" (sorry I read it in Latin and Portuguese and do not *know the title in English), where he said "A mistake is only a mistake if you fail ro recognize it, even to yourself, and correct it".
There is no easy route back, but there is a way, it begins with denying the people that cause this ab initio, to ever do it again, to have a true democracy with PR, to understand the current place of the UK in Europe in the world without influence, arrogance and an Empire that as not existed in almost 100 years now, and to be a partner of the rest of Europe. The UK is located in an island in Europe, it is, again, in an island, or in more than one if you want to be purist about it.
Learn, correct, move on, wont be easy, but just go on.
*edited know
“I don’t think people regret it, I think people are disappointed in the system the process the results.” Indeed, everything except the system the process and the result is doing great!
Who could imagine that with the European Union being the best market for English fishermen, it would be a good idea to leave? Now British fishermen will be able to fish all they want but they will have to convince their people to eat a lot of fish and chips and they will also have to convince his people to pay for hake, turbot, toadfish, bream, sole, crayfish... the price that the French and Spanish paid, by the way someone should have also told the English fishermen that Spain is the second largest consumer per capita in the world and now our largest supplier is Morocco....
They had it coming.
greedy little breed were fooled by boris and June mummery, hell mend them.
UK got what they voted for. Project fear became project reality.
Learning by pain is best learning method of reality.
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The word fish or fishing dosent leave farrage mouth anymore, he dosent care he’s more worried about losing his millionaire banking status..
No sympathy. Take it up with Farage.
It's almost as if, almost as if this outcome wasn't already predicted, but what can ya do....project fear and all that, am I right?
You get what you vote for.
Hahahahaha people of Grimsby, fishermen, all brexit voters hahahaha. Who lied to you. Take action to kick them out. Become active
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The government has let the fishermen down. It is not the fault of Brexit.
The government implemented the brexit that people voted for, so it is the fault of brexit!