I don’t care. They will need to learn to respect our sovereignty.

Don't forget we have Trident if necessary.

We'll have to send them back to their respective schools

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Territorial waters are recognised as international boundaries. Who or what enters them and for what purpose is a matter for the nation-state that controls them to decide its policy.

When we were members of the EU we signed up to a common fisheries policy that granted access to those waters, under a raft (no pun intended) of pre-agreed conditions for fishing boats from fellow member nations.

But we are no longer in the EU and as of December 31st, will be no longer in the transition period.

Do people think we should simply let anybody come and fish in those waters come January 1st? Not oppose or seek to protect those limits? And do you think that British fishing vessels should be able to enter EU waters and fish there, despite us not being EU members or having signed agreements with the nation-state involved, free of all hindrance as well? With no penalties?

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

The SNP do, so desperate to cosy up to the EU they are prepared to throw their own fisherman under the trawler.

One more point

The problem with this view point is that there is often a massive contradiction apparent in what we hear people say and how votes actually go.

I always use my personal experience of Croatia where I spend (until this year) a reasonable amount of time. Almost everybody I speak to down there have nothing but contempt of the EU. And yet when they had a vote on joining up with it, 70% voted in favour.

Which really puzzled me until I spoke to a couple of the more vocal anti-EU voices down there who confessed to having voted to join. What they explained to me was that they had such little faith in their own Government (which is corrupt as f***) that they wanted a body such as Brussels to be involved because although they disliked it they still trusted it more than their own political system. And I suspect this might be a case in many of the other smaller nations as well.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.