Rockall and Brexit

The tiny island of Rockall has been commandeered by Project Fear. Despite being very remote at over 230 miles from nearest land, the Western Isles of Scotland; and being miniscule, just a hundred feet across and fifty feet high, that little outcrop poking above the ocean waves has been nominated as yet another stumbling block in the path of Brexit. As regular readers will know, I have written a novel about Rockall, see: https://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.com/2009/02/rockall-chapter-1.html, but I could never have made up this real life story. This latest spanner in the works has been thrown in by a very predictable saboteur, globalist-occupied Ireland. The concern has been raised by the opposition islands affairs spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív. He is worried that the UK might obstruct Irish fishing boats from operating in the sea around Rockall. This is because the UK would no longer be a part of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy (Although this has no stopped French trawlers harvesting fish as far away as the Gulf of Guinea). Apparently this problem will be "very difficult to solve"... Well, we'd better cancel Brexit then! Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39544607. This is just another backstop, a pointless and completely unnecessary commotion over a baseless and probably even non-existent problem; all to make people scared of Brexit. British sovereignty over Rockall was claimed in 1955 and ratified in 2014 with both contesting nations, Ireland and Denmark, conceding. The UK's territorial waters extend a mere twelve nautical miles from low water mark of the coast of the United Kingdom and all Crown colonies and overseas territories in all directions, in accordance with Articles 16, 74 and 84 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The fishing grounds the Irish are bothered about are international waters. Seeing as Rockall is so minute, that is a mere 452 square nautical miles, a speck in the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean. It is true that the British Fisheries Limit of 1976 will have to go, but new bilateral deals should not be hard to negotiate. Why are they suddenly "very difficult to solve"? Nobody wants another "Cod War" in which British ships were rammed by the Icelandic Navy. We are not barbarians. We have been adjusting fishing policy for decades following fears of fish stock depletion. In fact freedom from a continental regulator might be beneficial to all fishing nations in negotiating a new and improved code of practice, as well as healthier environmental strategies for preserving the fish. It was actually fishermen themselves who protested against the Fishery Limits Act in 2016. They sailed their trawlers up the Thames and were intercepted by Bob Geldof on his millionaire's yacht manned by his flat-chested teeny-bopping fans all sipping champagne, at least the few who were old enough; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJkkl_cMfg. I wish one of the fishermen had a particularly rotten kipper with flies buzzing round it to throw at him. Please do not let the government scare you with this phantom menace. It belongs with the other Brexit portents of horror like running out of cheese or the army having to deliver medicine.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/07/army-on-standby-for-brexit.html.

And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/03/richard-dawkins-patronizing-git.html.

And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2019/01/brexit-decision.html.