Should France cut off Jersey's electricity supply?

[purplepoppy]

Jersey is a small British island very close to France. Thanks to Brexit, fishing regulations have changed meaning many French fishermen can no longer fish the surrounding waters. Understandably they're a little cheesed off. Britain has sent in the royal navy in a show of strength and France has threatened to pull the plug on Jerseys electric supplies. France supplies 90% of the islands electricity.

Oui, Pull the plug on the little Englanders

Non, leave the lights on

[integrale77]

The French are just proveing how they can be petty thugs kicking off because they can't put the right paperwork together to get permission to fish around a small island that is miniscule compared to the rest of the coastline of France.

So what do they do throw the dummy out the pram and threaten to turn off the electricity.

Just like they how they didn't have the foresight to place bigger orders of covid-19 vaccine so the complain about the UK getting what they placed orders for and threaten to stretch trade rules from Brexit to block transportation of medical supplies instead of going to the distributors and trying to sue for breach of contract.

[ChrisMaster69]

Obviously they had to wait until 2015 was long past, they have a fairly crap record in centuries xx15.

it’s typical of the likes of the French Fishermen.

it is rather pathetic in this day and age to throw your teddies like this.

[ChrisMaster69]

**********BREAKING NEWS**********BREAKING NEWS************BREAKING NEWS***********

Just been a news flash about this.

France has surrendered to Jersey

It appears that the usually docile Jersey Cows, got a bit pissed off with the entire sorry saga and had a Firm Moo! towards the French coast.

The result was instant capitulation and France surrendering to Government of Jersey.

[Bellatris]

Yes, well, the French are very good at surrendering.

[Jenny4455]

A deal was reached to allow fishing in British waters, French fisherman just need to get the documentation for it. They've decided they don't like that so a French minister suggested cutting off the power and French fishermen decided to blockade the port in protest. The navy ships were sent in response.
Cutting off the power is moronic at best. The islanders pay for it and it could do a lot of harm. Its the usual idiocy. Childish short term responses rather than trying to understand issues.

[integrale77]

Exactly the French seem to be so childish about things right now!

[Jenny4455]

@integrale77 the British government is just as childish.

[Bellatris]

Leave the lights on. Britain leaving the bureaucratic, authoritarian and utterly useless E. U. was the best thing to happen in recent years, but I can imagine the Germans giving the order to the French to punish the British for having done so. Continental Europeans can be very petty and vindictive.

[tartaarsaus]

The French simply argue that the Brits broke the treaty they agreed upon with the EU. If that’s true, this is completely on the UK itself

[Bellatris]

@tartaarsaus The British in turn could argue that the original agreement was only for a free trade zone within Europe (the EEC), and that when it became much more than this during the 1990's it was the nations of continental Europe (particularly Germany and France) who violated the original agreement by going against all it stood for when they decided it would be a great idea for the E. U. to dissolve national borders, introduce a flag, single currency, anthem and so on.

[tartaarsaus]

Eh, I doubt that’s relevant. The key relevant legal instrument is thencurrent treaty between the EU and UK.

[tartaarsaus]

So apparently the Brits and French both didn’t really stick to the Brexit treaty that passed a few months back. This is just putting pressure. Of course don’t cut off electricity, but it’s just a pressure campaign anyway

[Jessica405]

This is a ridiculous situation! The EU decimated British fish8ng fleets. My grandfather remembers the huge fleet of trawlers based in Lowestoft in the 1950's.

Now it's our turn to take back what is rightfully ours!

[purplepoppy]

There's no fish left to take

[Jessica405]

I had the last one with some chips! (Fries if you are from US!)

[tartaarsaus]

Eh, this is simply the result of a deal the UK voluntary negotiated on and signed with the EU. If you think the UK right now let’s in too many EU fishermen, the one to blame is Boris Johnson

[DaisyM23]

So so stupid. Bigger problems in the world right now and they can’t even negotiate?

[ToastyOats]

The should send wave after wave of hot young French men to the island on little rubber rafts to impregnate all the English lassies till its French again. Play the long game, nah ma sayin'

[NathanDavis]

Trial by combat.

It should be solved with a football game, before the EuroCup starts.

[andreasderjuengere]

I could think of a compromise:
One day: off / next day: on... etc.

[helva]

This has nothing to do with the Brexit. There was an agreement for the fishermen after the Brexit but suddenly, end of April, the UK changed the rules.

[Anonymous]

In the next world war we'll make a note to leave the French for the Germans

[KrakenAttackin]

No opinion. I think the dispute is kinda cute, however.

[goaded]

Ah, Bergerac will sort it out.

[ItsMeItsMe1989]

Nope!