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SmallTown said:
Neither is sending in the navy
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Well obviously, but she provided the pretext.

EDIT I wanted to add this quote from Barnier's diaries on the Brexit negotiations

'British "provocations" over the Irish protocol will continue, he warns, while the UK government, “in an attempt to erase the consequences of the Brexit it provoked, will try to re-enter through the windows [of] the single market whose door it slammed shut. We must be alert to new forms of cherrypicking.” '
 
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pierrequiroule said:
Well obviously, but she provided the pretext.
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The pretext was the Jersey government dancing to the UK tune, even after they objected to Jersey fishing rights to be pawns in the Brexit game. Even Jersey fishermen were shocked by this and there are Jersey boats in the blockade as well.
 
bear66 said:
The pretext was the Jersey government dancing to the UK tune, even after they objected to Jersey fishing rights to be pawns in the Brexit game. Even Jersey fishermen were shocked by this and there are Jersey boats in the blockade as well.
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That's right although I was referring specifically to the decision to employ the gunboats.
 
And if we have to watch that soft get of a BBC reporter bobbing about on the water trying to make the situation sound like something it isn’t we’ll all be hoying over the side of the sofa!
 
Youngie said:
The BBC write up on the ships is embarrassing.

‘2 large guns and short range anti aircraft”

reality is the batch one has 1 oerlikron 20mm and the batch 2 has 1 30mm bushmaster.

Other than that it’s a couple of GPMG’s strapped to the rails.

they have no air aircraft installed beyond pointing the gun into the sky
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BBC in simplistic garbage news shocker. Glad I binned their licence fee tax.

You could even call a revolver a ”short range anti aircraft” :D
 
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The French vessel licenses already granted provide 5 times the capacity of the entire Jersey fleet.
Jersey fleet want the conditions of licenses honoured to protect the fishing grounds around their island and are not opposed to more licenses being granted to more French vessels, just on the same conditions.
As always the position is far more complex than headlines report.
 
France are 100% in the wrong over this... time for NATO to act - it's a provocation against a sovereign state and its crown dependencies
 
NoMushroom said:
France are 100% in the wrong over this... time for NATO to act - it's a provocation against a sovereign state and its crown dependencies
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Yes. The UK has every right to break International treaties, or, in this case, get a third party to break it on their behalf. How dare the French believe an international treaty means anything. NATO ought to attack NATO at once.
 
bear66 said:
Yes. The UK has every right to break International treaties, or, in this case, get a third party to break it on their behalf. How dare the French believe an international treaty means anything. NATO ought to attack NATO at once.
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Who invoked Article 16 again? - Don't remember the UK doing it - I do remember the EU doing it though
 
NoMushroom said:
Who invoked Article 16 again? - Don't remember the UK doing it - I do remember the EU doing it though
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Invoking a part of a treaty isn't breaking it, as the UK has done and legal proceedings are continuing.

Will we get the French to attack the French as our armed forces have been decimated over the last 10 years?
 
bear66 said:
Invoking a part of a treaty isn't breaking it, as the UK has done and legal proceedings are continuing.

Will we get the French to attack the French as our armed forces have been decimated over the last 10 years?
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Remainer tears.... #AlwaysLosing
 
bear66 said:
Will we get the French to attack the French as our armed forces have been decimated over the last 10 years?
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Gets some of them to wear yellow vests. Should have no problems getting them to attack themselves.
 
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