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Thread #65115   Message #1069427
Posted By: Arnie
10-Dec-03 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: French blockade of Calais - again!
Subject: BS: French blockade of Calais - again!
If it's Christmas, must be time for the French fishermen to blockade Calais again - and right on cue their little fishing boats have sailed into Calais harbour. All ferry sailings from Dover cancelled today (Weds) and possibly same again tomorrow. French authorities doing sod all about it as usual. Thousands of Brits who has planned a day off for a booze cruise now find their shopping plans wrecked. Ferry and transport companies losing thousands of pounds - lorries stacked all the way up the M20. Why do the French fishermen pick on us Brits? It's not our fault their fishing quotas are being cut - why not blockade the naval base at St Lazaire? - bet the French Gov't would soon take action then! Why did we ever give Calais back to the French??? Maybe we should take it back again......