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French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 9:05:58 AM   
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A blockade by French fishermen angry at EU quotas cut ferry links with Britain for a second day Wednesday as a union official threatened to block the Channel Tunnel in support of the movement. Skip related content
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A fleet of independent fishermen, who say their livelihood is under threat from European Union limits on their catch, has stopped ships entering or leaving the ports of Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk since Tuesday.

The Calais protest was lifted overnight due to rough weather, allowing some ferries to cross to and from Dover, but a 100-strong flotilla of fishing boats resumed the blockade of all three harbours on Wednesday morning.

All cross-Channel ferry and freight traffic was halted, with port and transport authorities urging car and truck drivers to delay their journey or choose an alternative route.

A fishermen's delegation was to hold talks with Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Michel Barnier in Paris Wednesday at 7:00 pm in an attempt to break the deadlock, ministry officials said.

But there were threats of more serious disruption in coming days as workers at French ferry company SeaFrance threatened to block access to the Channel Tunnel out of "solidarity" with the fishermen.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090415/tuk-french-fishing-blockade-cuts-channel-a7ad41d.html

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 9:09:34 AM   
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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 9:40:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Merc and Beth had better forget about that cruise next month. WIthin a matter of weeks, it'll be nothing but wall-to-wall French pirates from Brest to Oslo.

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 9:45:23 AM   
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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 9:50:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Frenchies blocking the channel? Have the ferries do it the way Nelson did it at the Nile and Traffalgar, ahead full, go at them head-long, and break their line! I see that there's no shortage of French whine this year.

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 11:18:56 AM   
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I see that there's no shortage of French whine this year.


Vous aimeriez une petite tranche de fromage avec cela?

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 1:40:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		It just so happens that British police have a growing number of officers who are currently available for alternative work after the G20 protests; I wager five minutes of random violence.....er, sorry, crowd control, from the south-east's finest would have this blockade lifted.

In the meantime, its costing my suppliers a fortune what with having trucks parked up; just what they need when haulage prices are already at or around the cost of fuel alone. Indeed, a blockade like this will bring ruin on many a Polish family.

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 1:55:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		The good outcome of the G20 Police violence is the fact they’ll think twice about who is filming their actions at future events. Most protestors were saying the police were looking for trouble before the protests and the images speak for themselves. It's like this game of violence between the two parties both go for the wrong reasons.

French people blockading things is the state of normal.

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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/15/2009 2:31:17 PM   
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RE: French fishing blockade cuts Channel crossings - 4/16/2009 2:27:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
It just so happens that British police have a growing number of officers who are currently available for alternative work after the G20 protests; I wager five minutes of random violence.....er, sorry, crowd control, from the south-east's finest would have this blockade lifted.

In the meantime, its costing my suppliers a fortune what with having trucks parked up; just what they need when haulage prices are already at or around the cost of fuel alone. Indeed, a blockade like this will bring ruin on many a Polish family.

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Now that I've read the female protestor is using the services of Max Clifford to sell her story my sympathy is heading in the other direction as there are hundreds of people up and down the country being brutalised by police if that is a story.

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