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Maringer
January 24, 2018, 2:54pm
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But we 'conceded' to the Icelanders in the Cod War because of pressure from the Yanks (I presume) following their threat to withdraw from NATO. That's why much of our fishing industry disappeared.

Joining the CFP just put the final of many nails in the coffin and any withdrawal from it won't make a blind bit of difference to this.

If we attempt to unilaterally claim the historical fishing waters in the days before any regulations, the retribution from the EU (who would quite reasonably be interested in looking after their member countries) would cost our economy many times the amount which could potentially be gained.

Government didn't care much about the fishing industry or towns such as our own when it went down the crapper so absolutely no chance of them caring now.
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IMO Grimsby never got the serious regeneration money that other places got because there are only 2 constituencies involved so less leverage in Parliament and its primary industry never had mass union membership to fight people's corner as a whole. All the 'regeneration' attempts mentioned have been piecemeal and micro-scale (no offence meant to the people who were doing their best).


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IMO Grimsby never got the serious regeneration money that other places got because there are only 2 constituencies involved so less leverage in Parliament and its primary industry never had mass union membership to fight people's corner as a whole. All the 'regeneration' attempts mentioned have been piecemeal and micro-scale (no offence meant to the people who were doing their best).


Good points about the unions !
If the fishing industry had been unionised then I'm sure the then labour party might have had to have taken an interest in fighting a little harder or at least got the fishermen some redundancy money
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IMO Grimsby never got the serious regeneration money that other places got because there are only 2 constituencies involved so less leverage in Parliament and its primary industry never had mass union membership to fight people's corner as a whole. All the 'regeneration' attempts mentioned have been piecemeal and micro-scale (no offence meant to the people who were doing their best).


I was told the other day that the yardsticks for examples of desperately needed regeneration when the subject is broached in Westminster are Grimsby and Blackpool.


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Joseph Joubert.
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I was told the other day that the yardsticks for examples of desperately needed regeneration when the subject is broached in Westminster are Grimsby and Blackpool.


Desperately needed but never really fulfilled.


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