UK Flights Cancelled as Borders Close

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:30 pm

angsta wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:03 pm Is this what taking back control feels like?

Revealed: the millionaires hoarding UK fishing rights

A painstaking five-month long investigation shows that a small group of wealthy families control huge swathes of the country’s fishing quota
10.10.2018

Crispin Dowler

@CrispinDowler

More than a quarter of the United Kingdom’s fishing quota is in the hands of a tiny group of the country’s wealthiest families, an Unearthed investigation has found.

Just five families on the Sunday Times Rich List hold or control 29% of the UK’s fishing quota.

The finding comes from a new Unearthed investigation that traced the owners of more than 95% of UK quota holdings – including, for the first time, those of Scotland, the UK’s biggest fishing nation.

It reveals that more than two-thirds of the UK’s fishing quota is controlled by just 25 businesses – and more than half of those are linked to one of the biggest criminal overfishing scams ever to reach the British courts.

Meanwhile, in England nearly 80% of fishing quota is held by foreign owners or domestic Rich List families, and more than half of Northern Ireland’s quota is hoarded onto a single trawler.

The news comes as the government is preparing to publish a new fisheries bill, which will set the legal foundations for the UK’s fishing industry after Brexit. But while the government is hoping it can net access to more fishing rights in the Brexit negotiations, it has said the new bill will not see any redistribution of the UK’s existing quota rights.

As Unearthed’s investigation reveals, this would leave the bulk of UK fishing rights in the hands of a small domestic elite and a handful of foreign multinationals.

Responding to Unearthed’s findings, shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said ministers needed to take “urgent action to use the powers that they have domestically to redistribute fishing quota to deliver a fairer deal for smaller boats”.

“Fishing was the poster child of the Leave campaign and [environment secretary Michael] Gove has already broken promises he made to the industry to secure full control of our waters during the transition,” she continued. “With all the talk of ‘take back control’, ministers have the power to distribute UK quota now and put the smaller-scale fleet first. So why wasn’t it mentioned in their white paper?

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/1 ... fjwpEUq6Xs

angsta · Post by **angsta** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:54 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:30 pm
angsta wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:03 pm Is this what taking back control feels like?

Revealed: the millionaires hoarding UK fishing rights

A painstaking five-month long investigation shows that a small group of wealthy families control huge swathes of the country’s fishing quota
10.10.2018

Crispin Dowler

@CrispinDowler

More than a quarter of the United Kingdom’s fishing quota is in the hands of a tiny group of the country’s wealthiest families, an Unearthed investigation has found.

Just five families on the Sunday Times Rich List hold or control 29% of the UK’s fishing quota.

The finding comes from a new Unearthed investigation that traced the owners of more than 95% of UK quota holdings – including, for the first time, those of Scotland, the UK’s biggest fishing nation.

It reveals that more than two-thirds of the UK’s fishing quota is controlled by just 25 businesses – and more than half of those are linked to one of the biggest criminal overfishing scams ever to reach the British courts.

Meanwhile, in England nearly 80% of fishing quota is held by foreign owners or domestic Rich List families, and more than half of Northern Ireland’s quota is hoarded onto a single trawler.

The news comes as the government is preparing to publish a new fisheries bill, which will set the legal foundations for the UK’s fishing industry after Brexit. But while the government is hoping it can net access to more fishing rights in the Brexit negotiations, it has said the new bill will not see any redistribution of the UK’s existing quota rights.

As Unearthed’s investigation reveals, this would leave the bulk of UK fishing rights in the hands of a small domestic elite and a handful of foreign multinationals.

Responding to Unearthed’s findings, shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman said ministers needed to take “urgent action to use the powers that they have domestically to redistribute fishing quota to deliver a fairer deal for smaller boats”.

“Fishing was the poster child of the Leave campaign and [environment secretary Michael] Gove has already broken promises he made to the industry to secure full control of our waters during the transition,” she continued. “With all the talk of ‘take back control’, ministers have the power to distribute UK quota now and put the smaller-scale fleet first. So why wasn’t it mentioned in their white paper?

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/1 ... fjwpEUq6Xs

Nice to see that moron Johnson is thinking of the country and not his mates from Eton.

Who would have thought a man that can't even acknowledge his own bastard children would be a shit prime minister? What a surprise.

lagrange · Post by **lagrange** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:33 pm

So Singapore has banned arrivals and transit passengers from the UK, including anyone who has been there in the last 14 days. Given that Changi is the main transit point between LHR and PNH, looks like anyone planning to come to Cambodia from UK will need to put their plans on hold. Had to happen sooner or later.

Dunderhead · Post by **Dunderhead** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:24 pm

12 months from now when the only travel Will be by private jet or your own yacht I predict you will still believe the governments of the world are doing the right thing.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:49 pm

my parents now have covid :O

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:01 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:49 pm my parents now have covid :O

Sorry to hear that. All the best.

whatwat · Post by **whatwat** » Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:49 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:49 pm my parents now have covid :O

When was the last time you saw them?
COVID doesn’t “show” for at least 24 hours, no or not?

Doc67 · Post by **Doc67** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:51 am

lagrange wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 7:33 pm So Singapore has banned arrivals and transit passengers from the UK, including anyone who has been there in the last 14 days. Given that Changi is the main transit point between LHR and PNH, looks like anyone planning to come to Cambodia from UK will need to put their plans on hold. Had to happen sooner or later.

There is still the Korea and Taiwan route, but I suspect that will not last.

Post by **Freightdog** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:00 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:51 am There is still the Korea and Taiwan route, but I suspect that will not last.

Prior to leaving the UK, the schedule to/from London with Korean was already vastly reduced.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 9:28 am

whatwat wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:49 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:49 pm my parents now have covid :O
When was the last time you saw them?
COVID doesn’t “show” for at least 24 hours, no or not?

would have been 3 weeks ago now,
and not sure, my mum works at the hospital, 20 people on her ward have caught it, theyre having to get military nurses in now to fill the gaps and offering healthy nurses double time plus £100 cash up front to take on extra shifts

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