The UK agreed to open its fishing waters for 12 more years to EU boats — a move that will be condemned by the opposition Conservatives — according to Brussels officials.
In return, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has secured a veterinary deal that will remove much red tape for British farming and fisheries exports to its biggest market, in a much-sought economic prize of the “reset” talks.
Reminder to everyone who has family members that will inevitably bring up this talking point to complain about this:
The entire UK fishing industry contributes 0.03% of the country's economic output. Plus, over half of our fishing quotas are already owned by the ultra wealthy and/or non-British fishing conglomerates. It's not possible to "rejuvenate" old fishing towns with the industry that the fishermen themselves sold off to people that ultimately won't care about their town.
There are much bigger fish to fry (hehe) in these negotiations and we spend a massively disproportionate amount of time focusing on this effectively negligible aspect of our economy in these trade discussions.
@mraniki "UK and EU agree post-Brexit reset after ‘breakthrough’ in talks" - FT report archived at https://archive.ph/GZId0 .
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