“I was brainwashed by Boris. I voted for Brexit because we were told it would deliver for us...I got it wrong' 🐟 Almost 4 years after Johnson promised Ian Perkes the French would be desperate to buy his fish, the business has instead seen sales plummet
and the “huge benefits” it was going to bring to the UK, not least the folk of this small but important UK fishing town.
“He told us that when the Brexit rules came in January 2021, we would be so busy that we would take the fish off the French and they would be desperate to buy it from us. He said we could look forward to a very, very prosperous future.”Ian Perkes says Boris Johnson lied to him about the benefits of Brexit came into force in January 2021.
“We’ll be left with the 15 per cent of business we do in the UK because Boris lied to us, and Brexit ruined our export business.”export health certificatesOn top of that, there’s customs charges of £250 each time he sends fish through Calais and onwards to their final destination, whether that be in France, Spain or elsewhere in Europe.
But that competition has been Brixham’s thriving fish market’s gain. The way it used to operate, local traders would arrive, take a good look at the fish, and bid for what they wanted to sell on to buyers both home and abroad.
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