Great long piece on BBC news about the massive increase in the cost of cod and the impact on fish and chip shops.
No mention at all of Brexit which has significantly affected ยฃยฃยฃ
For the millionth time: We import ten times as much cod as this country catches.
What did they think would happen?
There's a unicorn just over the horizon.
"Let them eat hake."
Ditto in their coverage of the small boats; no mention at all that Brexit caused the problem.
Our village chippy only sells haddock these days, and the price overall has doubled - especially since the energy price increase. Cod has been at least as exposed steak for a while now.
We shouldnโt eat cod!!!
The stocks are near depleted
But
Brexit is the fundamental problem to so so many problems in the uk
If you factor in energy costs for a small business which are uncapped it starts to look unsustainable. In France it's 42% cheaper at 14p per kwh. In the UK it's 24p, but that's without the UK standing charge of 63p per day. The chart below includes those in.
It was solely a matter of time โฆ
Again I am reminded that the architects of Brexit had no flipping clue about how international trade actually works in practice.
Le sigh
Cod almighty- Brexshit is the gift that keeps on giving.
โLet them eat halibutโ - Marie Antoinette, 2025
The one thing we can be certain they didn't do was think.
They wanted everyone to give up ok payed service jobs to become underpaid fishermen
Has gotten crazily expensive, Brexit just can't work now. Nobody has the money in their pockets to enjoy stuff like this any more in part due to it. Chippies and pubs are closing fast in some places. Gonna get worse until we do something about Brexit.
Haddock far better. Cod is a bottom feeder.
Haddock is better for fish and chips.
They probably thought all the cod would move to the channel and queue up in an orderly fashion to be caught. Brexiteers are those kind of nutters.
A lot of the seafood eaten on holiday in South Europe actually comes from Scotland.
The Brits have a very narrow range of fish consumption, most of it imported, but thought to be local.
Spain buys loads of great seafood.
Is nobody going to comment that the price of cod passeth understanding?
BBC has become masterful at reporting on economic issues without mentioning Brexit. The last one to do it was Simon Jack who seems to have been sidelined.
Scotland Eats Mostly Haddock Fishโn Chips! Obviously the cost is the same just different fish! For Labour to continue with Brexit & Tory/therefore Reform Plans for the future is unbelievable & a disgrace! The Public getting poorer by the day & of course UK Pay& Pensions etc The Lowest & Zero Respect
Brexit is a load of Pollock's.
#HadToBeDone
The BBC is extremely biased.
If only Farage had bothered attending the EU fisheries committee, of which he was an absent member, he might not have fought so hard to leave it.
It's also because of global heating. UK waters are now too warm for cod and haddock to live here. We are now getting Mediterranean octopus living off the south coast of England. The Southern Europeans favourite food now live in UK waters and our favourite food now live in the Artic.
Yeah but we now get it in newspaper just like the good old days when we were the sick man of Europe. Well that was a reason some mug voted for a disastrous Brexit.
And I bet they didnโt mention global warming once!
You know, the principal reason why cod have migrated to cooler parts of the ocean up around Iceland and Norway.
But, but British fish ๐
Of course the brexit broadcast corporate is never going to say anything negative about their precious brexit
The cod were goingvto take their burgundy passport and swim in where they can swap for brexit blue and jump into the trawlers boat.
Yeah but Belgians
We have a bit of a local cod war in Eastbourne !! Hospitality buyers looking for best deal creating upset !! Oops ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I have been wanting to get this off my chest for a couple of weeks. Went to Whitstable for hols. 16.50 for fish and chips and the chips were the frozen type. Half that in Leeds 11. A bunch of crooks down there if you ask me.
I paid ยฃ13.55 last week for a large cod, 1/2 chips and mushy peas. So expensive!
10 quid for fish and chips at my local chippy. Fookin bastard brexit! ๐ก
And UK exports almost all it catches because brits eat very little fish apart from cod which is mostly imported. ๐คท
Well, you know this our punishment from the EU, don't you? Then, shall we start with "we hold all the cards" before moving swiftly on to "they need us more than we need them"? ๐คจ
Also add many Brexshitting fishermen sold their quota rights to large Dutch trawler fleets. As told to me by a Dutch skipper 5 years ago! Amidst much mirth on his part!
Time to seize the carp, Otto.
Slightly off topic. But two thoughts. 1. Why is it that fish & chips is the most expensive dish at a chippy and yet cheapest in a pub? 2. Why isnt the rest of UK like the West Mids? I doubt more than 30% of t/o in a chippy here is fish & chips. Kebabs, southern fried chicken, orange chips etc.
I'm more of a haddock man myself.
.....and of course cod shouldn't be used anway.
The fish caught by British fishermen are generally not varieties which appeal to British tastes, but do appeal on the continent, so the catch is exported - previously easily, now much obstructed by SPS rules on imports. The greedy bastards got bigger quotas, but canโt sell them. Boo fucking hoo.
Coley/pollack/coalfish is cheaper, oilier and tastes better than cod.
Oh, is this why The Spectator were pushing that โnobody really likes fish anywayโ bullshit? Quelle surprise.
And climate change has forced our cod into becoming economic migrants. Theyโve gone off to cooler Norwegian waters.
They thought we'd all put knotted hankies on our heads, stand in a stern salute, and sing Rule Britannia as all the money and loot rolled by.
Turns out the money and the loot was all going in the wrong direction.
How will the Moggs know which fish are โbetter and happierโ because they are โnow Britishโ?
Iโm staying in the Channel Isles for a few days and iโm surrounded by superb fresh fish restaurants. But and hereโs the thing; 90% of all the fish on sale here is imported, and most of it is frozen. Shell fish, crabs and lobsters are locally sourced though and very good they are too!
You can also add the future where cod canโt even survive in our waters and have gone north looking for the cold.
Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary new species to UK waters www.bbc.com/news/article...
The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.
Itโs how they were going to lie about what they knew would happen -
Outside the paywall... archive.is/l0vJD
My understanding is cod is now expensive because the UK and other countries have sanctioned Russian-caught fish so is in short supply.
I wonder how this imbecile feels today?
Happy fish would swim our way and enter the right sorts of (British) nets
Is this the cause of all the carpy fish puns....
They didn't think. Period. I'd like to believe this level of media illiteracy is a new phenomenon, but it isn't. Fishing & Farming. The Pound. The Union Jack. Totemic symbols of a Britain that never existed outside of Pathe news reels and Harry Enfield's "Mr. Cholmondley-Warner" sketches.
In 2016 the whole Brexit campaign was based on fishermen and British fish and now we can see the truth surely the BBC should now report on it..
Maybe Brits could do something truly batshit crazy like eating some of the other many kinds of seafood that we catch, rather than just exporting it all and importing prawns and tuna.
The BBC did not interview former Scotland First Ministers Salmond and Sturgeon. That's fishy.
As you mentioned Brexit and UK Fishing industry,should we mention who was the UK rep on the EU Fisheries Committee and his input? Yep you guessed...Nigel (conman) Farage. The group met 42 x times he showed up once..ยฃ107,000 per annum for FA. He conned you fishing boys big time!
โPublic Serviceโ broadcaster indeed. ๐คจ
The BBC is pro-Brexit.
Brexit was never about thought, it was about emotional reactions. Goebells influence on Farage and the vote leave misinformation campaign, was clearly visible.
Doesn't help that every party has presented our accession as selling out the fishing industry. Politicians who care so much about the fishing industry they did no research of actual pre-accession fishing policy.
Ah yes, the traditional British meal of fish and chips, also threatened by Brexit. But the so-called balanced BBC can't report on that, as it might make the right think them biased if they report the facts. For all this talk about the importance of British fishing, we've lost fish from Brexit.
And cod is soon on the endanger list and getting more and more expensive.
But we knew what we were voting for.
Hear hear well saidโฆ. and of course Labour will get the blame by implicationโฆ
Strokstown county Roscommon. Fresh Cod and Chipsโฌ12:00. Smoked Cod โฌ11:00 Delicious. ๐ฎ๐ช๐ช๐บ
23rd June 2016 ยฃ=โฌ1:45 24th June 2016 ยฃ=โฌ1:25 12th August 2025 ยฃ=โฌ1:15. You buy European Fish in Euros. ๐ฎ๐ช๐ช๐บ
It's always been haddock & chips here in Hull.
The BBC - Reform propaganda these days - best avoided
Seems the BBCโs mission is:
โก๏ธ Ignore the Brexit shambles
โก๏ธ Treat Brexit as if itโs divinely ordained
โก๏ธ Paint the EU as the root of all Britainโs woes
โก๏ธ โNeutrallyโ cover & normalize even Trumpโs most deranged antics
โก๏ธ Cheerlead the UK as Americaโs loyal little helper and Trump as its saviour
The ๐๐๐ stance of the BBC on Brexitโs disastrous fallout โ and its total lack of journalistic scrutiny on Trump and his MAGA cronies โ is remarkable. It neatly mirrors Starmerโs delusional โBrexit is God-givenโ and โAmerica will save usโ politics.
The BBC is a pale imitation of what it once was. BBC News is becoming another of Farage's echo chambers...
Brex!t has been sh!t for the UK, and continues to be sh!t for UK.
Anyone thinking otherwise is delusional, still has a Euro passport, or is one of the few dozen profiteering.
Jacob said in 2017 that by taking back control of "are" fish, cheaper food, clothing and footwear would not be the sole ๐ benefits of Brexit.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Why do all the people in leadership roles pretend Brexit is over and done, not a problem, nothing to look at here, please move on?
I feel betrayed by the once-Remainers whose primary pose is head-in-the-sand. Do they genuinely think things will/can get better?
But thereโs that deal with India. And the Australian biscuits remember? Global Britain, free and roaming the open seas of world trade!!
So many chip shops disappearing. Lost 2 of the best in Cardiff in recent months. The only country in the world to impose economic sanctions on itself all in the name of racism and bigotry.
Brexiters wanted to have their hake and eat it
It's now cheaper to fly to Benidorm for your traditional British fish and chips, as long as you're prepared to join the long queues at the airport ๐คฃ
Does this mean that we have happier fish, as one Joseph Rees-Mogg predicted? Because no-one can afford to eat them?
Donโt mention the Brexit!
They didnโt think. Most likely because they are incapable.
BBC hasn't been down the chippy then for years...it's been super expensive for at least 10yrs and for many it's now actually a "special treat", not a regular Friday/Saturday night alternative to cooking at home.
The BBC are doing the frog faced fascist grifters bidding
Curse you, sir!
Now I want Fish & Chips (Loads of salt and proper vinegar, please)
It doesn't help that the British public won't eat anything from the sea that reminds them it's a fish. It must be snow white and devoid of any identifying features like a head, tail, fins, skin, bone, or flavour. As a result, most of what we catch ends up in the EU or in a fishmeal factory.
Also : haddock exists
Also BBC this morning "50,000 migrants have crossed the channel since Labour came to power" Absolutely no mention of the 24,103 (as of March) sent back since Labour came to power and no mention that we left The Dublin arrangement giving the green light to the smugglers.
Cod has jumped from ยฃ8 to ยฃ9.50 in under a year at our local chippy. It's reaching the point where you think twice about visiting.
Nothing. They thought literally nothing.
hungry now
The staggering cost of running a deep fat fryer these days has had a huge impact on the cost of fish & chips
They thought it would be free fish and chips for all! ๐๐๐๐
Found out rather too much about Cod while in Bridport this weekend
I RECKON ITโS BACK TO EELS THEN
Fish is now left coded apparently.
Meanwhile our supermarkets are proudly advertising on TV their Ecuadorian prawns ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Lots of places ( excuse the pun) serve tilapia instead.
The riddlers at the BBC at Farage's beck and call. After all he deluded the fisher folk with their Brexit dreams but no mention of that....
Always liked haddock but my favourite was rock salmon growing up also known as Huss in different parts of the country ๐
Fish and chips should always be Haddock and chips, not Cod! Cod is a tasteless fish - fit only for Brexiteers and others who don't really like fish!
As well as Brexit thereโs the other issue that Reform etc donโt like: climate change. Cod & haddock v rare in warmer UK waters now. Imported from Norway & Iceland. UK fleet largely catch fish which majority of UK population wonโt eat but which Europeans will. Brexit 1 serious f-up for UK fishing
I always found the brexiters were convinced of 'plenty more fish' etc. No idea of the cod bank collapse in Newfoundland.
No admission that we fish off shore because we over fished in shore because we over fished rivers.
We're chimps who write soap operas, not dolphins who shepherd.
Could not find anything on the news site. Where is/was this being reported?
BBC journalists seem to be constantly scared to mention Brexit on any subject. BBC management seems to have issued instructions to journalists not to mention the word !
