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The 1958 cod war was between just Iceland and the UK, nothing to do with the EU and nothing to do with quotas. It was purely down to disputed territorial waters. Britain gave up its first huge concession in the 70s only just before joining the common market because it was a condition of entry by...

I've already answered this and you are still not answering my question. Fishing is a major area of legislation and the UK, with one of the largest fishing waters by area has had to concede ultimate control of that to the EU. EU control on fishing is so well-established, so long-running and so...

It's a very strange phenomenon. Trudeau in Canada is feted as a poster boy for progessive liberals the world over and he's made big steps in some areas but he's also ruled out raising the minimum wage, he supports criminalising hatred of a belief system and is all for trade agreements with...

Now who is avoiding answering questions? It's a very simple question - who is the ultimate authority on rules regarding fishing in UK waters - the EU or British Parliament? It doesn't matter whether British opinions on the matter right now coincide with that EU law. We have no right to exercise...

Let's not forget Soley, Gus Gus, Eliza Newman, Emiliana Torrini, FM Belfast, Lay Low and Jon Pall Sigmarsson.

British democracy is there to protect British interests. By removing our rights to control who fishes our waters, it's directly subverting British democracy. I'm not asking you to justify this EU law, simply acknowledge EU supremacy on fishing in British waters.

I expect not seeing as the Cornish fishermen who were so vocal about Brexit were the ones who were still out fishing. Getting back to your question, do you concede that EU law has directly had a detrimental effect on the UK fishing industry?

How about EU rules on fishing quotas which have decimated the UK fishing industry? There's a reason why all those Cornish fishermen voted for Brexit and it wasn't about bent bananas or metric weights.

Fair dos on this comment and I probably share a lot of opinions as your friend. My reasons for voting Brexit were the EU institutions, politicians, bureaucrats and Euro/ECB-related, pure and simple. On immigration, I'm not particularly hung up on numbers but rather the distribution across the...

You are aware that EU directives have a direct effect on member states and it is up to them to modify their legislation to comply with EU directives? This is the very heart of why most people voted Brexit. We want the UK courts and Parliament to be the highest and ultimate source of legislation...

You keep claiming this so maybe stop with sweeping statements like this one when mentioning the FN campaign being race-led. and this one where you've lumped all Brexit voters together (again):

Not everyone who voted Brexit is a UKIP supporter. That there is one of your big mistakes. You seem to think Brexit and UKIP are interchangeable. I would have thought my comments about Le Pen and Farage would have made that blindingly obvious that it ain't necessarily so.

Or maybe I'll just disagree with you here. I'm proof that your claims of parallels with Brexiteers and NF supporters are specious generalisations at best. It sounds like it's you that needs to stick your head out of your little echo chamber. Your habit of dropping people into neat little boxes...

Oh, do stop with the protestations. I've quoted you twice in this thread where you've clearly insinuated that the Brexiteers are FN supporters and de facto supporters of a racist party.

Still calling all Brexiteers racist, I see. You are Paul Mason and I claim my £5.

Not really. There's no immediate threat to our way of life that isn't being protected by the Armed Forces, police and government agencies. I also don't think that many people believe that the situation is so dire that they need to form their own militia. They should all be applauded for how they...

I think UKIP voters, or at least fans of Farage, should take note of his admiration for Le Pen. She stood on a very traditional French, big-state, left-wing agenda that was overtly against Anglo-Saxon culture, not the typical fellow-traveller that UKIP associates with. If she had won then there...

Yup. I got what you were saying.

I think you've been reading too much Paul Joseph Watson. France will muddle on as all Western nations do. How many terrorist attacks have there been in France over the last few years and what real effect has it had on French civilisation? Zero. People go about their lives as we do here and the...