FRENCH fishing boats are blockading Jersey, and the French government is threatening to cut electricity supplies to the Channel Islands, in protest over the new regulations imposed on foreign fishing boats in the wake of Brexit, that ‘les pecheurs francaises’ say will destroy much of their smaller fishing villages.

Perhaps now (although I doubt it) the French will appreciate the anger among fishermen in this country when the EU’s totally unfair fishing policy ripped the heart out of the UK’s fishing industry – leading to many British fishing boats taken over by the French, among others, or left to rot on our beaches.

And the threat by our Gallic friends to cut off electricity supplies only highlights the sheer folly of making ourselves dependent on electricity supplies from France in the first place.

At long last, French fishermen are getting a taste of their own medicine – and not before time, having spent decades plundering our fish stocks.

ROBERT READMAN
Norwich Avenue West, Bournemouth