Honour Merry Monarch’s Pledge – 50 Flemings, No More!
Further to my earlier historical meandering today….
…here I go again!
Belgium’s ambassador to the EU noted, during Brexit talks in Brussels Wednesday, that British king Charles II had granted 50 Flemish fishermen from Bruges “eternal rights” to use British fishing waters 350 years ago…
https://euobserver.com/tickers/149701
I have always had a lot of time for the Merry Monarch..
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House of Lords, still over-loaded with bastards!
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….who famously enjoyed life to the full, and whose illegitimate kids’ descendants still make up a fair percentage of the UK peerage.
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King Charles II and Nell Gwyn dancing.
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But regardless of that, if a British king gave that pledge, why not honour it?
Let the fifty fishers of Flanders bring boats into HM’s territorial waters!
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Boats, of course, with a fishing capacity which King Charles the Second would have recognised as reasonable and normal, in 1660.
Then, in the absence of any similar promises made by English or Scots monarchs, to fisherfolk of other Continental nations, send word to Kaiserin Ursula and her Commissars –
THAT’S YER LOT!
JazPen and 
Jim Ex Jakarta are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Jim Ex Jakarta 18:14 on October 14, 2020 Permalink |
Very funny, and why not be generous?
But I was watching your favourite channel (‘UK Pravda’ ) a short while ago and it was astonishing that even they use the words ‘British Territorial Waters.’
That ends any argument.
The French and the Belgians have their own territorial waters and so does every country with a coast-line. None of them has any right to demand access to other people’s.
I hope they are told to go fish!
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JazPen 23:48 on October 14, 2020 Permalink |
If we are quoting leftwing media, Jim, try this for size. It’s from today’s Guardian.
‘…Paris did not believe there was any margin for negotiation on the current fishing arrangements in the UK’s six- to 12-mile exclusive economic zone, where 84% of the cod quota is landed by French fishermen…’
You as an American can judge the situation as an outsider.
Most people would agree with what you say, but Macron’s not objective, not even open to reason.
He wants his fishing fleet in seas they have no right even to be in.
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