Let's just fucking rejoin already. And give us full freedom of movement while you're at it, which will have the added benefit of dealing with the small boats "crisis"!
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It also reignites the row over the UK’s ban on the fishing of sand eels – designed to protect Britain’s population of puffins which eat the small fish, but hated by some EU countries that catch them in huge quantities – by insisting that Britain takes into account the “socio-economic consequences” on European fishing communities of its policies on managing stocks.
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Apparently it's Denmark.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/eel-or-no-eel-an-early-test-for-the-uk-eu-reset/
The fishing of sand eels in English North Sea and Scottish waters was recently banned in order to protect depleted stocks, which are a vital food source for local marine wildlife including puffins and porpoises. The ban has wide support from normally pro-EU environmental groups in the UK, even though the EU questions whether a blanket ban is ‘evidence-based, proportionate and non-discriminatory’. The Danish government argues that it amounts to de facto discrimination against Danish vessels, who take 99% of the sand eel catch in that area.
Hmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_eel
Traditionally, they have been little exploited for human food, but are a major target of industrial fishing for animal feed and fertilizer.[4] Increasing fishing for them is thought to be causing problems for some of their natural predators, especially the auks, which take them in deeper water.
An instance of this was the RSPB report linking a population crash of seabirds in the North Sea to fishing for sand eels.[5][6] This led to political pressure for the closure of this fishery; the seabird populations subsequently improved.[7]
I'm not sure that there's a viable way to protect puffin food in a particular location in a way that's going to affect countries by different proportions, unless one is going to just ship in food for the puffins from elsewhere.
I'm not against fishing, but there's something wrong if you take fish and then just turn it into fertilizer or chicken feed. Good on the UK for banning this.
Various names are thought to be in the frame, including Theresa May’s former Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins, who was hated by Brexiteers, the highly-regarded US ambassador Karen Pierce, German ambassador Jill Gallard and Ministry of Justice permanent secretary Antonia Romeo.
"US ambassador"? What?
kagis
Oh, she's the British ambassador to the US. Weird. Normally I'd expect that phrase to be referring to a US diplomat. I wonder if this is a British English thing.
kagis
Wikipedia doesn't use that phrasing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Pierce
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce, Lady Roxburgh, DCMG (born 23 September 1959), is a British diplomat who has served as the British Ambassador to the United States since 2020.[1]
I do see it in a BBC article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51413307
UK names first woman US ambassador
But they also use it the other way around, when calling her the "British ambassador" elsewhere in the article.
She held posts in countries around the world, including Japan, Switzerland and the US, before becoming the British Ambassador in Afghanistan between 2015 and 2016.
Huh.
It is an odd way to write it. I assumed Jill Gallard was a German ambassador untill I read your comment.