Harry Western: Why ‘No Deal’ Is a Good Deal for the UK Fishing Industry
"The UK fishing industry is hugely disadvantaged by the current allocation of catches in the UK’s territorial waters."
"The UK fishing industry is hugely disadvantaged by the current allocation of catches in the UK’s territorial waters."
"Remorseless media focus on Dominic Cummings has been given impetus by Tory MPs who have added their voices to the call for Cummings to be sacked, some of whom may owe their seats to his work."
"... it is not the business of civil servants ... to challenge settled decisions, most especially not a decision with such explicit Prime Ministerial imprimatur."
"Taking the “level playing field” agenda as a whole therefore, we can see how dangerously broad and elastic the concept can be."
"... everyone may ... get ... those funny ideas the Brits had in 2016."
"In the awful chronology of Theresa May’s humiliating negotiations, the EU’s Transition demands stand out as the point when it made clear its intention to dictate rather than negotiate."
"Paradoxically, we are governed by a political class that manages at once to be ideological yet uninterested in ideas."
"...this decision shows the unfortunate tendency of EU law to judicialise questions that should not be judicialised..."
"...he embarks in negotiations with a superstructure nearing dislocation."
"The difficulty in carrying on with face-to-face trade negotiations is not the main issue. ... Much more important is the possibility that the transition period may be extended beyond the end of this year."
"... following the transition period, tourists will be allowed to travel to the EU for 90 days out of 180 without a visa."
"Today, the ECB is powerless to stop this. They don’t have the tools nor the expertise. And they won’t even after they get the reforms they believe they need. It is bankrupt now and it will need external help to survive."
"Boris Johnson’s penchant for new infrastructure schemes is to say the least, fortuitous."
"It would be difficult to prevent both Paris and Berlin from using the E3 format as part of their own struggle for power against other EU member states."
"It is quite shocking that the new German president of the European Commission calls for zero dumping, when her own country is one of the world’s biggest dumpers of goods onto world markets."
"Rappelle son opposition de principe à toute perspective qui aboutirait à réserver un sort spécifique à la question de la pêche, sous la forme d’un « Brexit » sectoriel, dont les premières victimes ne manqueraient pas d’être les pêcheurs de l’Union..."
"We can now introduce our own welfare standards, to stop live animal exports, and revive local slaughterhouses, with strict inspection regimes."
"Not only does New Financial defend the dying attempt to keep the UK closely attached to the EU post-Brexit, it generates agenda-driven headlines with no real substance."
"There are still resistant elements in our midst, which foreign opposition could rely on to frustrate our exit from the European Union. It is clear that lessons have been learned; lines have been redrawn in preparation for an invisible warfare, an insidious confrontation with those opposed to Brexit both domestically and internationally."
"It really is time to walk away from this increasingly ludicrous institution."
"It’s ironic that while UK Remainers agonise endlessly over the supposed disastrous effects of the UK breaking away from the EU’s trade and regulatory system, the EU Commission appears to fear the precise opposite – that such a breakaway will allow a more nimble UK to thrive and leave the EU in its wake, and that such an outcome might encourage other member states to follow the UK out of the door."
"...during his short and successful tenure as Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson announced the sensible decision that three of the lower specification Batch 1 OPVs would be kept on in service in anticipation of our leaving the EU."
"The EU cult persists in the corridors of the academy, while the world has moved on. The smaller their number, the greater their fervour."
"The Court of Justice has repeatedly shown its contempt for democracy."