A Brexiter had a rant about British fish – these 13 people put him in his plaice
When Brexiters are called upon to list the benefits of leaving the EU, they tend to fall back on three things: blue passports, the UK having parliamentary sovereignty, and getting out of the Common Fisheries Policy.
Of course, the UK could have had blue passports all along, Brexiters don’t seem to like parliamentary sovereignty after all, and if this is anything to go by, they don’t understand what’s going on with the fish.
Our work IS NOT DONE UNTIL we have
British fish,
from British waters,
landed on British shores –
and trawled and processed using British jobs.#Grimsby4B pic.twitter.com/DII1iWiayH— Christopher Barker – Brexit Party PPC (@Barker4Grimsby) September 20, 2019
Christopher Barker’s rant just netted him a lot of Twitter mockery, and we think eel regret it.
1.
British fish are of course the ones that speak English and will, from 31st October, carry a blue passport. https://t.co/9bJnAflXiC
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) September 22, 2019
2.
Enormous fan of the idea of ‘British fish’, swimming around complaining about the weather, passive-aggressively tutting at seahorses for being a bit too camp, and behaving like obnoxious fucking arseholes to the fish who are a different colour to them. https://t.co/0LlkEoReyv
— ️ Max ️ (@SpillerOfTea) September 22, 2019
3.
We are ending Freedom of Movement for fish, are we? https://t.co/3zQtyE4FEL
— (((Frances Coppola))) (@Frances_Coppola) September 22, 2019
4.
taking back sovereignty by issuing every turbot in the channel with a blue passport https://t.co/tct74kIZcP
— Katie Spalding (@supermathskid) September 22, 2019
5.
British arsehole. https://t.co/Y8ELM38L4b
— David Quantick (@quantick) September 21, 2019
6.
Do the fish know that ?
Will they have to apply for *settled status*? https://t.co/JK8FDsE6Gp— Clare Hepworth OBE (@Hepworthclare) September 22, 2019
7.
"British fish" do they have to pass a language test or will they be erecting a forcefield of sorts around UK waters https://t.co/RVflwUAXtU
— (@pickledpuffin) September 21, 2019
