To the tories, scottish fishing is still “expendable”

THE BREXIT FISHING SELL-OUT From the start, Theresa May and Boris Johnson have set up Scotland’s fisheries as a bargaining chip in the Brexit negotiations – proving yet again that

Westminster sees our fishing communities as _“EXPENDABLE”_. The Scottish Tories said they would vote against any Brexit deal that didn’t restore_ “complete control and full sovereignty”_ of

Scotland’s waters. Now, it’s clear that Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal doesn’t even come close to delivering that. > 🇪🇺🐟 Scottish Government analysis of the Brexit deal shows > 

Scotland's fisheries can't catch as much as they did in the > EU.@FergusEwingMSP "Key stocks the Scottish industry depends on, far > from seeing a big increase, there 

will be a fall in the quantity of > fish they can land." >  > — Lee Pirie (@LeePirie) December 29, 2020 New Scottish Government analysis reveals that far from having, as

promised, ‘substantial increased opportunities in the future’, the Scottish fishing industry will have ACCESS TO FEWER VALUABLE FISH STOCKS (such as cod, whiting and haddock) than under the

existing CFP arrangements – EVEN AT THE END OF THE FIVE AND HALF YEAR PHASE-IN PERIOD. Brexiteers have promised that getting ‘our own seat at the table’ in annual negotiations would result

in gains for our fishing interests. With Boris Johnson’s disastrous Brexit deal, OUR ABILITY TO DO THAT HAS ACTUALLY BEEN REMOVED with the loss of leasing and swapping quota. > A better 

deal for fishing is the only Brexit justification the > Tories have ever been able to offer Scotland. This analysis shows > just how spectacularly they’ve broken that promise. For some

 key > stocks the deal actually delivers a worse outcome than the CFP > https://t.co/oiB71zomYp >  > — Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) December 29, 2020 Despite all that, the

Scottish Tories are now enthusiastically backing the Brexit deal with a fishing arrangement that they themselves, in 2018, called a “betrayal of Scotland”. Yet again, Douglas Ross and his

MPs are breaking their promises to Scotland’s fishing communities, only to side with Boris Johnson at any cost. > “It would be easier to get someone to drink a pint of cold sick > than

 try to sell this as a success”: UK ministers accused of > “massive sellout” of Scottish fishing industry on Brexit > https://t.co/iQv7bbnY4x @theipaper #Brexit #CFP > 

pic.twitter.com/BgEY35C1Bw >  > — Chris Green (@ChrisGreenNews) March 19, 2018