Geoff Morris - #FBPE

🚨 A decade on from the vote to leave the EU, many in the fishing community say their industry was betrayed after promises - made by Nigel Farage and Vote Leave team - that Britain would regain control of its waters. “We feel betrayed, because we were convinced, promised, we were going to get these basic points – with the failure to uphold a limit on foreign vessels fishing with 12 nautical miles from the UK coast being the biggest let-down,” says fisherman Anthony Hoskin, at Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall. “We were told there would be no French and Belgian ships towing away our gear, and it’d make our lives easier,” he says. “I wasn’t going to be left unable to sleep knowing my thousands of pounds’ worth of rope and pots could be gone. “We were even going to have control of our quotas, no dictating from Brussels. But we were sold down the river, simple as that.”