UKIP: The Channel Blockade and being stuffed by the French

French fishermen are blockading the Channel ports on protests over the quotas the Common Fisheries Policy gives them for cod.

"As usual we're being stuffed both ways by the French" said Nigel Farage, UKIP leader. "French fishermen decide to protest about the European Union and they do so by crippling Britain's cross channel haulage and tourism business. Why are we expected to pay these losses, to say n

"The British Government should be demanding compensation from the French for their failure to keep the seas and the ports open.

"But what really grates is that the protest is over the lack of quota for cod. The French have 77% of the Channel cod quota and our own British fishermen have only 7%. It should be us blockading them to insist that we are able to catch our own fish."othing of the inconveniences to thousands?