Thread by @uk_domain_names

If you feel glee at this, then I'm sorry but there's something wrong with you. This is tragedy, writ large, inflicted by Brexit on the people who were the most abused, misled and manipulated of any group of individuals in the Brexit debate. Destroyed by the Farages of this world.

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1349354654606487552

It took a truly seismic shock for the person in the video to come to his senses, but the Brexit earthquake rocked his world and sent his business tumbling around him. He is a future ALLY in any effort to get close to the EU, or rejoin as a full member, not a figure of mockery.

The plight of the fishing industry was held up as a totem by fanatic Brexiters time and again since the referendum, and even before.

Now that so many fishermen face ruin because of Brexit red tape, it's (un)remarkable to see their former champions fall silent in unison.

Bear in mind the UK Government swung the executioner's axe a mere 8 hours before the transition period ended, when they published - late on 31 December 2020 - the case study indicating what fishermen would have to do when Brexit proper arrived.
gov.uk/government/pub…

Throughout the negotiations - and the blazing arguments - catch quotas were always a huge red herring, if you'll pardon the pun.

It doesn't matter how much fish you catch if the red tape mountain required to sell it is so steep, the fish can no longer reach your main markets.

And that "new" red tape (new only in the sense that we've never experienced it in the UK before - it's standard procedure for a third country relationship with the EU) was a nailed-on certainty once we left the Customs Union and the Single Market. That decision sealed our fate.