The Battle of the Thames

Anyone on the battlefield?

This pretty much sums it up;

https://twitter.com/kayaburgess/status/743014564996993024

Farcical. Just needs the Benny Hill music.

Bez ?@beztweets 30m30 minutes ago
Facts that have emerged so far today:
1. some **** have boats

This.

Now with added Benny Hill theme tune 🙂

https://twitter.com/kayaburgess/status/743022947355533312

Boris has arrived;

Marina Hyde’s twitter feed.

Situation as it was at 1pm:

This eyewitness account of the Brexit / Farage / Geldof Flotilla is an essential MUST READ

Who, exactly, is paying for this **** outing?

Most important decision of a generation, maybe in our lives and it’s reduced to people making w@nker signs at each other from a fleet of small dinghies.

Never mind the football hooligans, if Europe get wind of this they should bloody expel us full stop.

It’s absolutely pathetic. Anyway, some information:

http://theconversation.com/what-would-brexit-really-mean-for-the-uks-fishing-industry-56312

It’s absolutely pathetic.

and yet somehow very British 😉

Buzzfeed did it quite well;

https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/brexit-flotilla?utm_term=.lvwroVj2p#.yerdn2y8w

Can we have a Morris Dance off to see if we stay or go?

If you got that singing bloke from The Boomtown Rats playing politics you are doomed.

Makes me proud to be British, and also glad that we’re part of Europe.

There’s a scurvy ridden gang of fisherfolk boarding the Black Pearl. Police trying to intervene.

meanwhile Nigel’s been given a sign to carry.

I am afraid Nigel is right while that singing bloke is wrong …

Someone needs to change “Slippery” to “T**T” 🙂

So a group of Scottish fisherman on their way up the Thames in their working boats are surrounded by shouty types in leisure craft and a pop multi-millionaire blaring out loud music. Remain must be so proud.

Why do you need a hi viz on a boat? You’re ON the boat? If you fall in the hi viz will be under water and obscured by the life jacket? And if you’re farridge I’d just let you drown anyway.

Why do you need a hi viz on a boat?

Who ever gave it to him was hoping there would be a sniper on a bridge somewhere….

they’re not all penniless fishermen and women…

The flagship of a pro-Brexit flotilla currently sailing up the Thames was caught up in the UK’s largest ever fraud involving illegal catches of fish and is now partly owned by one of the richest fishing barons in the country, Greenpeace can reveal.

The Christina S, a 72-metre-long pelagic trawler, is one of two large vessels meant to be the showstoppers in a river protest organised by Scottish skippers heading towards Westminster this morning to call for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

The flotilla, which will be joined by Ukip leader Nigel Farage and pro-Brexit fishery minister George Eustice, is supposed to represent British fishers struggling under unfair EU rules depriving them of their fair share of fishing rights. Yet Greenpeace has discovered one of the UK’s largest holders of fish quota is behind the flotilla’s lead vessel and the same ship was previously involved in a major fishing scandal.

The Christina S was among a number of trawlers caught up in the so-called ‘black fish’ scam – a large-scale fishing fraud reportedly worth £63m. Over a dozen fishermen based in Scotland were found guilty of having devised an elaborate method for landing fish caught outside EU quotas. Judge Lord Turnbull, who presided over the case, branded it an ‘episode of shame’ for the industry.

The Christina S owner, Ernest Simpson, and his son Allan were given one the largest fines in 2012, £130,000 in total, after they were found to have landed undeclared fish at a processing plant in Peterhead, Scotland.

The Christina S is still partly owned by Ernest Simpson. Another company with a stake in the vessel is fishing giant Andrew Marr International, a firm that controls 12% of all the English fishing quota through a series of subsidiaries. According to 2016 Sunday Times Rich List, Andrew Marr and his family are worth £122m – making them the 825th richest family in the UK.

Andrew Marr International had a stake in the Christina S between 2005 – 2008 when the ‘black fish’ scam took place, but they were not among the firms prosecuted and there is no suggestion they played any role in it.

The beneficial owner of the other large trawler, the 40-metre-long Atlantic Challenge, is Caley Fisheries, which posted a healthy turnover of £18m in 2014, including over a half a million pound from renting out fishing quota.

Also…Over the three years that Nigel Farage was a member of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee, he attended one out of 42 meetings.

Also…Over the three years that Nigel Farage was a member of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee, he attended one out of 42 meetings.

He also claimed expenses for 6,328 meetings of the Fisheries Committee 😉

Got to say, Remain aren’t looking the best in this.

OTOH, it’s not the EU that screwed the scottish fisheries- Heath’s government knew the CFP deal they signed up to would destroy the scottish fleet but considered it a price worth paying to benefit english fisheries and to get a better deal in the CAP, and Cameron’s government worked against the 2013 reforms. And it’s the UK government that decided to allocate most of the EFF funding designed to compensate for this to fishermen outside of Scotland.

Heartening to see these Sunday Times Rich List fraudsters and quota exploiters standing up for the little guy against big bad Bwussels’ evil, scheming attempts to preserve fish stocks.

Have the fisherman not worked that without the EU they would have long ago run out of any fish to fish?

By the way how much is dear old Nige, the career politician who slags off career politicians worth? I know he was a rubbish trader but I’d guess he’s a multi millionaire too, slagging off another multi millionaire whilst stood next to his multi millionaire backer on the boat.

I did actually LOL at the “have you declared that to the electoral commission?” comment….

Have the fisherman not worked that without the EU they would have long ago run out of any fish to fish?

Came here to post this! If it weren’t for the quota system slowing down the drastic overfishing we’d be eating fish fingers made from neon tetras and whatever else you could find in the fish tank at the dentists…

Geldof is right about the meetings, though. You can’t really complain if you don’t bloody turn up.

So which one is the

celebritard culture in late stage capitalism.

this sort of crap is why China is winning.

A-Ha!

If you got that singing bloke from The Boomtown Rats playing politics you are doomed

At least it’s not a Monday.