31st October The one that I wish had got away


Furious Brexiteers up and down the land have got a right old hard on at the prospect of the current fishing rights dispute escalating to a full scale war with cross channel rivals France.

Rattling his metaphorical sabre with the same level of enthusiasm he managed for NHS workers during the Covid Clap, until it began to class with the new series of The Repair Shop on TV, 62 yr old Pat Riott explained his rapidly rising Gallophobia.

"I feel I am channelling (did you see what I did there) the spirit of Henry V just before the battle of Agincourt and have decided to take this fight to the next level by making a unilateral stance in refusing to buy French sticks, eat garlic, drink champagne or even listen to Sasha Distel." 

"After leaving the EU with all the grace of a sulky child, its only to be expected that we should now act like a petulant teenager if we dont get all those things we agreed too and a whole lot more that we didn't. And if those bloody Frenchies think that they can legally come into our waters and legally catch their legal quota of fish then they have another thing coming. It all sounds very very fishy to me!"

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