A fishing deal is done and dusted

I know I should have noticed this earlier but the UK has agreed a Brexit fisheries deal already. In fact it has agreed 4 deals, the trouble is that they are with Norway, Iceland Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Perhaps the reason that these agreements have got under my radar, is that the Government hasn’t made much of a fuss about them. Strange given that they allow for bilateral agreements on managing fish stocks and access to each others waters, which is a major problem in agreeing an FTA with the EU.

How the government managed to do this when, it seems to believe that without controlling its own fishing waters the UK is not a sovereign country is a mystery.

But perhaps it has something to do with the fact that this is a ridiculous take on sovereignty, which has stymied our negotiations from the start. Although strangely enough not our negotiations with Norway, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

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