WATCH: British fisherman furious at 'bare faced lies' from Labour in heated rant

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British fisherman Paul Lines has launched a scathing attack on the new EU-UK fishing deal, accusing the Labour Government of telling "bare faced lies" to the fishing industry.In comments to GB News, Lines expressed outrage at the recently announced 12-year extension of fishing arrangements that will allow European vessels continued access to British waters until 2038.READ THE FULL STORY HERE

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00:00your company what do you make of these comments not a single extra fish we'll get out of british

00:04waters don't worry mind i sit down calm down son martin they live in a dream world they don't live

00:11in the real world they live in this world they make up and they pat each other on the head

00:16and they feel good how do you think young men and companies are infested in this deal that they've

00:24done the so-called brexit deal where after 2025 and 26 we negotiate them going us having our seas back

00:33and controlling our destinies from great britain the independent coastal state that we're meant to be

00:39how do you think they feel that they've invested this money in new gear new boots new processing

00:44facilities only to be told hang on the dutch french will be hoovering up that fish for another 12 years

00:52i mean i'll let you still be alive let alone reap the benefits of it we're an independent coastal

00:58state with no teeth we've got no guts left in us and we've got fools in parliament who talk in these

01:05soundbites and they lie barefaced here and think you're going to be stupid enough to believe anything

01:11they say well quite honestly that's a travesty what they've done they they don't care they don't know

01:18what they're doing and my opinion is they've got to make sure and ruin fishing so badly and tie it up

01:25and stitch it up so that any government that try and follow this mess of a government we've got can't

01:31do it that'll fail for them as well and i'm sick and tired i'm like every fisherman in great britain

01:37and i'm not buying that oh you can sell your shellfish well that's a very small part of fishing

01:43you know i'm absolutely lost for words to what the hell is going on in that parliament if this is

01:51even legal martin well paul you know they they would like to believe that you'd be happy about

01:56putting your muscles into brussels as it were but look let me bring in chris hope he's got a question

02:01for you mate thanks for joining us uh paul we have spoken to nick thomas simmons the guy who brought

02:08who devised this brexit deal he says that as part of this you can now sell your crustacean and

02:14mussels crabs uk crabs uh along with other other fresh products into the eu and you couldn't do it

02:20beforehand and they say that 12 months 12 years now means you've got certainty for 12 years rather

02:26than the year-on-year negotiation of quotas is that make sense or not no but not at all that's

02:32absolutely utter squitters we'd say here in norfolk because the 70 percent we're exporting now how do

02:40you think that get there but just get on a lorry they buy and that go over there all that messing

02:47around at border posts what they've done to have a little kick against brexit in the first place

02:53that's all gone by by the boy people are exporting shellfish well shellfish ain't all efficient

03:00and and that's a lame excuse that is that's just one of these things made up to sound good to

03:06convince people who live in cities and live in towns who don't understand

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