Dane gold?

Denmark will make fighting to retain its access to British fisheries a “high priority” in trade talks between the UK and EU, its Prime Minister has said in remarks that will fuel the growing row over postbrexit fishing rights.

Next we’ll have the French demanding a deal which protects wine exports to the UK, the Germans demanding a deal which protects car exports to the UK and the Spanish demanding special treatment on any travel restrictions on holdaymakers from the UK which might threaten their tourist industry. Maybe the consequences of Brexit for the EU are beginning to sink in?

Arch Stainton

Once we are out of the EU we should remember those countries that [made] spiteful and vindictive comments during the process, ESPECIALLY Eire. We should have a HARD border as they have shown themselves to be no friend of the UK – as if we didn’t know that already.

nunnof yurbizness

Denmark will be granted permission to fish in our waters, there is no doubt about it. But at what price remains to be seen, we will work on a deal with them.

Med1a One

The UK government has sold us short. The fact that they catch so many fish in OUR waters shows we have for years allowed our resources to be plundered by many.

Jim Thomas

Strange that those involved in fishing are blaming the UK Government while the armchair experts who have never seen an angry sea are blaming the SNP.

John Brownlie

The fishing fleet is being used as a political pawn by ALL the political parties. Fishing makes up less than one per cent of Gross Domestic Product. The Tories aren’t going to save the fishing industry from the “horrible CFP” at the expense of financial services, or other main props of the economy, and to believe otherwise is nonsense.

Hog_weed

Taking back control was never about giving UK fishermen monopoly rights. It was about taking responsibility. Don’t suppose too many fishermen would insist on their BMWS being made in the UK or their avocados grown in Scotland.

Freewheel

If we take back sovereign control and reinstate a 12-mile fishing limit, then possibly, the Danes should pay for fishing rights...it is, after all, a form of UK exports.

Derek Farmer

Simple solution, Denmark can leave the EU and join the UK. They did, after, all have the Danelaw, which can be treated as a precedent.

Aristotle