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2nd July 2017, 11:47 AM
#31
Re: fishing rights
hi cappy
the reason no body stands up to be counted in this country, is because of the shrinking indigenous population and our values , enoch powel was ostricised, and norman tebbit was demonised for pointing out that immigrant will not stand behind our queen and country and will prefer their own cultures and flags.
tom
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2nd July 2017, 11:51 AM
#32
Re: fishing rights

Originally Posted by
thomas michael
hi cappy
the reason no body stands up to be counted in this country, is because of the shrinking indigenous population and our values , enoch powel was ostricised, and norman tebbit was demonised for pointing out that immigrant will not stand behind our queen and country and will prefer their own cultures and flags.
tom
###a true situation report which cannot be denied thomas .....the truth is not allowed any more ...we are slowly turning into a bastard nation......old brigade V boys brigade....freeloaders rule ..but that cannot carry on ...what price then...cappy
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2nd July 2017, 12:24 PM
#33
Re: fishing rights
keith
when I was a boy I worked on the scallop boats out of the isle of man, home port ramsey, but it was not until the sixties when working on trawlers did I start to think about where I was and what I was doing, as this was the time of the cod wars, and boats from Fleetwood and north and east coast ports where being rammed and their fishing gear destroyed by the icelandics as they wanted a two hundred mile exclusion zone, as you may think ( everybody said they where wrong and had no right to the exclusion zone ) but they where later proven to be absolutely correct in their protection of their fishing area,
as when I was on the trawlers I actually gutted cod nearly as big as me, I'm over six foot, today I have seen the size of the catches in our local waters and they are pitiful ,
also capt kong has stated that Fleetwood, ( which I shipped out of together with hull and lowestoft ) is decimated, the result of the tory queer and pedophile heath in his quest to be as flamboyant and dashing as the queer frogs he so admired.
it was him and the tories whom bowed and scraped their way to the table of the giraffe of france, whilst constantly being told ( non ). and they gave away our bounty, and since then the whole of the European union have gorged themselves on what is ours, this after destroying fish stocks in the Mediterranean, they take tiny fish that would have bred into bigger and finer stock that should have then multiplied, this has been our heritage up-until now,but as cappy points out it is only at the bargaining stage and we will have to see what tomorrow brings.i agree with that sentiment,
my concern is not just what they give away in the future it is already what they have sold off, as their are numerous quota boats under british flag that belong to the European union,and there is actually two running out of the mersey now these boats will be able to increase their catch once we are out of the despicable corrupt European union so how do we change the situation when we are out,
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2nd July 2017, 12:37 PM
#34
Re: fishing rights

Originally Posted by
John F Collier
Hi Brian, could this sort of thing be anything to do with it, Salford University students president Zamzam Ibrahim, her ideals
are, "everyone should read the Koran, men and women should not be friends" and she would like to "oppress white people"
she has posted a number of highly controversial messages on social media, and opposes the governments "anti-radicalisation prevent strategy", she was elected by the students "say no more", these students are supposedly the future of our country, not
very promising is it?. cheers JF
of our country
hi john
I used have a Staffordshire bull terrier and he hated other dogs,to a point where he nearly killed a few of them his colour was white with a black eye, but the most beautiful tame dog around humans.
I'm afraid these people like my dog will always attack us because they hate us,
tom
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2nd July 2017, 12:44 PM
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Ref 34, Has anyone managed to find out where and when this misfit went to sea ????, i think we have been invaded by sick morons, kt
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2nd July 2017, 01:01 PM
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thomas michael
hi john
I used have a Staffordshire bull terrier and he hated other dogs,to a point where he nearly killed a few of them his colour was white with a black eye, but the most beautiful tame dog around humans.
I'm afraid these people like my dog will always attack us because they hate us,
tom
Trouble is Tom they are still being given a free hand to do it, our governments are always very slow to learn, they should
nip it in the bud with people like Zimzam Ibrahim, she came here from Sweden maybe they should send her straight back as
an undesirable. JF
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2nd July 2017, 01:04 PM
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torry henderson
fish stocks are still going to be depleted,,,obviously you are ignorant to this
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ivan...wtf
Having been a trawler man, probably more aware than you you bleddy moron
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2nd July 2017, 01:38 PM
#38
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God knows where this clown escaped from, but the men in white coats need to get there quick, kt
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2nd July 2017, 04:08 PM
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another fine example of the EU's approach to anything not to their liking, I've just read an article on the BBC text news
about the UK government decision to end the convention that allowed other nations to fish UK waters, the European commission
response is that they "took note, but felt the convention had been superseded by EU law" Well they would wouldn't they
. JF
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2nd July 2017, 07:36 PM
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Re: fishing rights
Here we go again! A good thread, a few really good informative posts (to me) and slanging. I must admit one slang with the picture of the Moe, Larry and Curly...not the picture itself, but the repartee between accused and accuser gave me a bloody good belly laugh.
But I have to say I feel a little sorry for y'all who are locked in a time-warp. I was bombed out along with my mother, grandparents, aunt and uncle. A traumatic experience for me was being shipped along with my young sister from family to strangers in Yorkshire for nearly four years at the age of four then returned at almost eight to another bunch of strangers in 1945. I stuttered for a number of years (it was assumed from the bombing and the evacuation).
Sorry guys but that's history. My honorary German Son and family have just spent a wonderful week with us and have sadly left for Dresden. Their father and mother also friends of our were a little bit younger than me during that terrible war. Their parents though dead and just ordinary folk who lived in a village outside of Dresden....yeah...maybe there's a case for hate to that generation, but to hate people just because? Sorry not for me. I don't live in the past.
I looked down my wife's email address book. I have cousins and a brother and family in England, friends in France, Germany, Australia, family and friends in Canada, and our former neighbors who lived next door now back in their home country of Japan.
New neighbors moved in three doors down the road. They are from India, he is a scientist for a high tech company and they seem very nice friendly people. They stopped by and introduced themselves. I don't care what nationality lives next door to me so long as they pay their own way and can afford it. I am so happy living in a "mongrel country". (Our national motto is "From many one")
I love this site, I have good memories of the sea, four and a three quarters years was enough for me, but I do like to reminisce and enjoy the B.S.. But I feel sorry for any trapped in 1939-45 and reminiscing about those wonderful evenings Morris dancing, around the Maypole on the lovely English village green...wasn't too much of that in Walthamstow or Southend.
I thought this site was called British Merchant Navy Old Friends Plus? What seems to be happening to the plus? I thought it meant Ex Brit seamen and WOMEN, and the friends could be anybody else who connected with us by a common link of the sea and ships etc. even those enjoying making ships in a bottle or carving walrus tusks and it mattered not a whit where one lived or what navy you were in, male or female, French, Indian, doesn't matter, just enjoy things maritime.
Rodney, he with the rose tinted glasses on...as my brother said "...and there's nothing wrong with that bro...just don't take them off."
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