One of the quaintest industries in Britain is the fishing industry. It lost all of its viability in 1973 when the government sold it out to the European Union by becoming a member. Since then it had been a long tale of bankruptcy and buyout to foreign nations who were cleverer than the clumsy fools in 10 Downing Street at that time and since then.
Someone said that leaving the European Union was the worst political decision in the history of the United Kingdom. They were wrong, the worst decision was to enter the European Union. Because that opened the door to wholesale slaughter of formerly viable industries. The carcasses of industrial doom can be seen all over the landscape of Britain. In the years since 1973, Britain adapted and opened new ways of earning money. Brexit is doing its best slaughtering them, too.
Which brings us to the second worst political decision: Brexit. Many obsolete industries teamed up with reactionaries, conservatives watching the world from their country piles, and naïve believers in the good old times and national sovereignty. The somnolent fishing industry was one of these industries. Together, they managed to convince the gullible and the stupid to vote for Brexit.
The leader boards of the national fishing industries had a well thought out plan for the post Brexit period. It can be summed up as 'give us back our fish and all is well'. Minor impediments would just disappear into thin air because sovereignty and the wind in their hair would heal all wounds. There aren't enough British ships to haul in all the fish; but Brexit would make them appear out of thin air. Not to mention the fishermen. There is nothing like Boris magic.
With this brilliant and detailed strategy they stood firmly behind Boris Johnson, also known as the 'Mayor of little brains' and 'Boris-the-Pooh' while he lied his way through figures, numbers, and money. His only aim was to become Prime Minister, anything else was secondary. Now he is the only Prime Minister branded a criminal by the country's highest court for his try to outmaneuver the constitution with the constitution. Last I heard between 100 U-turns concerning Covid-19, he made a terrible deal with the European Union to regulate trade and fishing rights.
Going back to the brilliant strategy of the brainiac leaders of the fishing industry, you will notice one really minor slight omission; there was no mention of trading the caught fish to anyone. Getting them out of the water is all that counts for these giants of business acumen. And that is what Boris the Sleaze did; he secured the fishing rights and threw them to the wolves where trading is concerned.
The consequence was fishing lorries demonstrating in London because 'selling fish to Europe is an administrative nightmare'. One wonders why the demonstration was held in London, the headquarters of the fishing industry NFFO are in York; the morons sit there and in other national fishing organizations. If any of them really believed that they could just snatch back the fishing rights and continue trading with the European Union as before, then they need their brains scanned. No one can be that stupid.
Now, they are getting government money for gross stupidity; politically correct that is called emergency funds for complications with Brexit trade rules; and someone should check who of Boris's cronies is getting that money. The fishing industry wanted Brexit, they got it, now they should pay for it. Throwing good taxpayer money after bad into an industry that is too stupid to plan ahead makes absolutely no sense. Or how much money would you spend on fixing a rotten tree ready to fall because it is top heavy with stupid?
Further reading
How Economy Works
How Money Came to Dominate Our Lives
Flooding and Covid-19
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