Fisheries
Express
A BREXIT fishing war has erupted after France launched a furious attack against the UK and sent a huge warning over its fishermen’s access to British waters.
France has expressed its “exasperation” at Britain’s “anti-gamble” over the situation, which has escalated since the UK’s departure from the European Union. Following the Brexit deal between London and Brussels, EU fishermen have found their access to British waters reduced. Britain must therefore grant them access licenses according to pre-established quotas.
But France has launched a bitter attack against the UK, accusing it of being sluggish to implement these provisions.
Clement Beaune, the Secretary of State for European Affairs and Emmanuel Macron’s closest aide, expressed his “exasperation” at the situation during a hearing by a committee of the National Assembly.
Labour Party
Mail
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has faced a backlash after reportedly describing the Tories as ‘racist, homophobic, scum’.
Ms Rayner reportedly launched an outspoken attack on the Conservatives during an event for Labour activists from northwest England at the conference in Brighton.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP described the Tories as ‘a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic’, the Daily Mirror reported.
Ms Rayner said: ‘I’m sick of shouting from the sidelines, and i bet youse lot are too.
‘We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, mysoginistic, absolute pile …of banana republic…Etonian…piece of scum…and I held back a little…that I have ever seen in my life”
Government minister Amanda Milling described the Labour MP’s remarks as ‘shocking’.
This story is also covered in GB News, Evening Standard, Mail, iNews
EU
Express
FISHERMEN have taken aim at Emmanuel Macron over proposals for wind projects.
Protestors had gathered on Friday in an attempt to voice their concerns against the plans for the wind projects. The protests took place in Le Havre and Cherbourg, with the protestors being made up of predominantly fishermen.
The protestors believe that the plans for these wind projects are an ecological disaster, having an impact on both marine biodiversity and their economic activity.
Speaking to Europe 1, a protestor said: “They are going to kill everything. They are going to kill an artisanal industry, it’s catastrophic.
“Castex and Macron should go and see the extraordinary damage they cause.”
The fisherman continued: “What we are asking for is a moratorium on wind farm projects.”
AUKUS
Express
A FORMER British Army Commander has claimed the AUKUS alliance proves the UK is no longer tied to the European Union’s “timid” foreign policies.
Colonel Richard Kemp, 62, believes Boris Johnson’s defence deal with US President Joe Biden and Australian premier Scott Morrison shows Brexit Britain has taken back control of its foreign policy agenda. AUKUS will enable London, Washington and Canberra to share greater intelligence and give Australia the technology needed to build nuclear-powered submarines.
The veteran commander, who spent 29-years in the British Army, told Express.co.uk: “AUKUS shows that Britain is no longer tied to stilted and timid EU foreign policies.”
The 62-year-old added: “Brexit has given us greater freedom to act in our national interests and the interests of our most important allies without fearing a row in Brussels or other European capitals.”
But Colonel Kemp, who led the British Army in Afghanistan in 2003, also said the EU should focus its efforts on trade rather than attempting to implement foreign policies that infringe upon national sovereignty.
Kemp’s comments come after some nations in the Brussels bloc were left frustrated by the AUKUS alliance.
HGV drivers
Express
THE UK has granted 10,500 temporary visas for overseas lorry drivers and workers to prevent a crisis at Christmas amid an international HGV driver shortage.
The temporary visa scheme will create opportunities for 5,000 HGV drivers and 5,500 poultry workers to gain employment in the UK. The decision has come about after pressure to keep supermarkets supplied with goods as well as fuel concerns at petrol stations.
The visas will be available next month and are expected to last until Christmas Eve.
Retailers this week have told the Government they have 10 days to prevent ‘significant disruption’ for the Christmas period because of a shortfall of 90,000 freight drivers.
Grant Shapps Transport Secretary said the move would “ensure preparations remain on track” for the Christmas season.
A million letters have also been sent to drivers who hold an HGV licence to prompt them back into driving.
Several media also run the story including the Mail, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Mirror, Times, Evening Standard, ITV News, BBC News
Nuclear power
Guardian
Ministers are closing in on a deal that could kick China off a project to build a £20bn nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast and pump in tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer cash instead – a move that would heighten geopolitical tensions.
The government could announce plans to take a stake in Sizewell C power station, alongside the French state-backed power giant EDF, as early as next month, ahead of the Cop26 climate summit.
That would be likely to result in China General Nuclear (CGN), which currently has a 20% stake in Sizewell, being removed from the project.
It risks inflaming political tensions, which are running high after Britain’s decision to join the Aukus nuclear submarine pact with the US and Australia – a move designed to counteract China’s military expansion. CGN, the power giant backed by the communist state, is also bankrolling EDF’s Hinkley Point C power station in Somerset.
Sizewell, which is still going through planning and development, would eventually power 6m homes, but has been plagued by opposition from local campaigners, fears over its price tag and China’s involvement.
Working from home
Times
Unilever is tackling the Covid trend of employees moving to the South of France and beyond to work remotely by insisting they live within a 24-hour commute of the office.
The company, whose products range from Dove soaps to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, employs 150,000 people worldwide — 6,000 in the UK. As with other companies, many have moved far away from their normal workplace as they work from home.
As the company attempts to get them to the office on flexible terms, it is insisting that employees must be able to get reach the office at a day’s notice if called in for an emergency meeting.
In Unilever’s terms for employees, this is called a “reasonable commute”.
There’s a photograph in Saturday’s DT showing Professor Chris Whitty receiving an honorary doctorate of medicine at Plymouth University.
Is this significant?
It probably is to Professor Whitty
So he is a fake as well as a liar Roger Turner
HGV drivers.
The lack of these (which is also the case in France and Germany is entirely the fault of senior management failing to take the long view, instead importing drivers from the EU. This situation did not happen overnight but has been apparent to all who look for years. Totally unwilling to pay for apprentices, now paying the price.
Now they expect government help, importing more substandard workers. It’ll be taxpayer money next they’ll be wanting.
The same policy was adopted for virtually all tradesmen, brickies, electricians, plumbers, joiners etc.
No wonder we have new houses not fit for purpose, importing inferior workers from ex-commie countries. (We haven’t heard the last about this by far.)
I remember years ago HGVs were manned by a driver and driver’s mate who learned the job over many years then likely went on to be a driver himself. No doubt learning has been sacrificed for cost saving.
Had Angela Rayner limited her rant against the Tory Party as ‘scum’ or better still as lying, deceitful, incompetents, I would have agreed with her. As for the rest of her labelling of the Tories as ‘homophobic, racist, mysoginistic’ she is wide of the mark. Wasn’t it the Tories who tore up the sanctity of marriage as being between a man and woman? Aren’t transgender issues making huge strides forward under the Tories? Wasn’t it The Fat Boy who said ‘There is nothing wrong with being ‘woke’? Isn’t it the Tories who have done more to ‘change the face of Britain’ than Blair could ever have achieved? Isn’t the Tories who are the party of mass immigration? Isn’t our public sector second to none when it comes to diversity awareness under the Tories? Don’t the police take the knee under the Tories?
Vote Tory get Labour.
For once Jake I agree with you……
Not relevant to news items today but what do readers make of this.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/never-say-neigh-fda-lists-horse-drug-approved-covid-treatment
Mary, I think that because patients are being denied Ivermectin which has a proven track record, every death should be classed as murder.
Not relevant to topics on todays news but :
I read on Zero Hedge : “Rare Solar Superstorm Could Prompt ‘Internet Apocalypse’ Lasting Several Months.”
Ah so when Schwab & co seek to engineer a big internet outage to silence all their opponents, that’s the story they’ll come up with to cover up the real reason. And people will believe it !
If they do shut down the internet Mary I reckon the likes of Amazon will have something to say about it! Amazon has not been the best thing to happen to the competitive world of business but upsetting them and other similar firms that rely on internet trading could have an impact on derailing the Great Reset dont you think. So that would be a step in the right direction to getting shot of these global bullying dictators!
An article from Breitbart that show just how much it’s one law for the elite and one for us hoi palloi. Celebrities at Obama’s party, and high level political events, all enjoying themselves without masks. How they must all be laughing at us.
“Pinkerton: The Mask Comes Off in a Two-Tier Society Where There’s One Rule for Elites and Another for the Rest of Us”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/25/pinkerton-the-mask-comes-off-in-a-two-tier-society-where-theres-one-rule-for-elites-and-another-for-the-rest-of-us/
Here’s a twenty second video from Australia that shows the frightening situation there if the people don’t comply.
https://rumble.com/vmz1aq-australia-riot-control.html
This video is about what is happening in New Zealand but it will also happen in Britain in due course. Don’t forget that Ardern worked very closely with Tony Blair.
“Exposing The Real Jacinda Ardern”
https://youtu.be/hjkFiIEGxxo
Fisheries: How much more will it need for Bojo to tell the EU to Foxtrot Oscar and take our side? Our country, our waters, our fishing rights.
Nuclear power: Why do the idiots in government think that it is in any way acceptable to involve China in our critical infrastructure? It’s bad enough having many of our shops full of sub-standard Chinese products.
Of course he is probably acting under instruction from his globalist mates.
Jack Thomas, you will be waiting a long time then. Johnson is a spineless individual with no get up and go, common sense, positivity, gumption and possesses zero political conviction, and whatever you are expecting him to do will never happen. He wont do anything to upset ‘our friends and partners’ in Europe as he frequently describes them. If they are our friends, who needs enemies….