I mean, it's not an enormous part of most countries economy. Norway is the second biggest fish exporter in the world and only makes 0.7% of its money on fish. The point is that any kick Britain gives to the EU would likely be met with the exact same reprisal, making it worthless
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...are we still talking fisheries? Because I can't see any point in getting mad about Denmark fishing in British waters when 20% of the British catch comes from Norway
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Lol, Britain fishes ~20% from the EU as well, the only change will be that we have to negotiate an entirely new agreement which will almost certainly look virtually identical to the current one because we aren't in some massive position of power
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Right but the point is that the UK will almost certainly have to 'buy' just as much...
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So what you're saying is that a decade of negotiations and billions of pounds to achieve no practical difference is a good thing?
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I mean, 99% of it's going to be done by unelected public servants regardless. With Brexit, a British minister will just tick a few boxes rather than a consortium of British and EU ones
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