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Keir Starmer warned of joint 'farmer and fishermen revolt' after EU deal
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May 19, 2025
Former Brexit Party MEP and fisheries campaigner June Mummery has launched a furious tirade on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's EU deal, claiming he has committed a "massive betrayal" against Britain's fishing industry.Announcing the new agreement at a summit in London today, Starmer claimed the deal will be "good for jobs, good for bills and good for our borders".FULL STORY HERE.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the Prime Minister's EU deal will bring an end to the country's fishing industry
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Skiar Starmer is facing accusations of caving into Brussels as a new trade deal with the EU gives French trawlers access to British waters for the next 12 years
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Well, we can now speak with the former Brexit Party, MEP, and the fishing campaigner, June Mummery
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June, welcome to the show. You've been a tireless campaigner for the British fishing industry
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Tell me, how sombre is the mood today? Awful, absolutely awful. I've been down to the fish market, done a few interviews with various people
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chatting to fishermen, very, very, very upset, very disappointed and absolutely furious
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I mean, this is just, that is the nail in the coffin
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Nigel's quite right. I can't see how we can come back from this
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12 years, 12 years. Where did this 12 years come from? Does he think that, you know, he obviously knows he won't get in next time
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Does he think he'll get in another 12 years' time and then we'll be back? I don't know. I cannot understand where this has come from
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Can he do this? But as far as coastal communities and fishing, because this isn't just about fishermen
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It's the processing side of things. There's a lot of other jobs involved with it
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But, no, it's awful, and I really do not know the answer to this
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okay june memory i'm also joined by gb news political editor chris hope he has a question
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for you yeah june thanks for coming on the show of course just to ask you the government would
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say to you getting 12 years here of certainty 12 years it wasn certain because the t the deal ran out next year and then it negotiated of course annually And your members and others will be able to have access to the French markets the people they couldn get involved with
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So there's shellfish, UK oysters. They can now be sold into the European Union
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Isn't that not a good thing? No, no. That's ridiculous. When Iceland took back control of their waters, we were buying fish from them within a fortnight
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And I just listened to Priti Patel. You know, let's be mindful. It was the Tories that sold us out and stabbed fish and folk in the back
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If we had have taken back control when we left the EU, which we were told, and that is what the great British public wanted, then none of this would be happening
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The Tories have let Labour through the back door to finish off this job. It's ridiculous
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if we'd have taken back control then we would be selling fish back to them
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France, Holland, Spain they need the raw materials they need the materials because they've got
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huge factories and employees to pay so I don't buy that June, will there be
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a hell to pay from people you know, maybe in those coastal towns
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in the same way we saw farmers fight back didn't we, over the
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budget last year and pensions before that. Is it a new group of disaffected, angry people here
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Will fisherfolk be revolting? Well, yes, but you've got to remember the demographics of a
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fisherman now is over 60 years old. We haven't got youngsters coming into it. And who would
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Who on earth would come into the industry now? Now that man's given it away and taken and stolen
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our aspirations and our opportunities What leader of a country would do this to the people and give away our territorial waters We are supposed to be an independent coastal state Our forefathers fought for that track record out in that North Sea
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We lost lives for us to have a better future in this country
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What is the man doing? It's just absolutely ridiculous. But we could unite with the farmers
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because it's about food security. And we are talking with farmers. I mean, my phone's been pinging all day
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I've had some wonderful, wonderful support from the great British public. It's what you need
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You need that because when you campaign and when you lobby, it's lonely
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It's deflating. And when this comes upon us, and we didn't ask for this
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we're not in control. What can we do? Well, we've got to go off and campaign again
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and stand outside number 10. He doesn't care. He didn't care about the coastal folk
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He couldn't care less about us. We're the sorry people, Chopper. That's what we are
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They're the kings and queens, and we are the sorry people. June Mummery, there was a lot of talk today about
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we don't want to revisit the stale old politics of the past. We want to turn a page
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I'm hearing the opposite in your voice. I'm hearing very much the feeling that the Brexit battle
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has been reopened again. Do we think the fishing battle is back on the table
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or this is going to be one that's going to roar and roar on. Yes. And when he said he was going to stop the boats
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we didn't realise he meant he was going to stop the fishing boats in his own country
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No, we will fight. He will not get away with this. In four years time he be gone The only thing I really alarmed about and I haven had time to look into this Martin is can we do anything Has he stitched us up like a kipper
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You know, can we overturn this? With no confidence, I really don't
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know. Well, Gene Munray, as we understand it, looking through this, and we've
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got the contract, we've got the documents here, we're going to start going through these as we did
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in Brussels before the detail. We have it all here. We're going to pull through it
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in the next few hours. But as I understand it now, Jim Mummery, we are locked into this deal for 12 years
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irrespective of who is the government. And as we understand it, that would mean
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if a future government decides to row back on these fishing tariffs and give more back
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to the British fishermen and fisherwomen, it could instigate a trade war
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The European Union could put trade tariffs against Britain. Trump-style trade tariffs being gifted on a plate
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if you like, to Brussels. Yeah, I appreciate that. And a big thing that the great British public need to know, fish is a public asset
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It belongs to the public. Did Keir Starmer at any point ask the people if he could trade away their sovereignty
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No. So that document might say something, but there might be a little document sitting in some little safe
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in some little office that we have to unveil. There's got to be something
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This can't happen, Martin. It's a massive betrayal. But, you know, like Winston Churchill said
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when you're going through hell, keep going. OK, June Mummery, what a place to leave it
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Thank you for joining us on the show today. June Mummery, fishing campaigner and former Brexit party MEP
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