The UK’s age-old ‘frenemy’ relationship with France never fails to ignite passion, and no more so than when the frequent fishing wars are thrown into the mix. Post Brexit, there is undoubtedly added piquancy to the cross-Channel insults.
“After le showdown, now it’s LE SURRENDER”, trumpeted the Daily Mail, after France retreated from threats to clog up exports and ban UK fishers from landing catches on its coast in the latest row over licences.
Other tabloid headlines evoked similar sentiment – “Le Surrender” (Metro); “Le Climbdown” (Express).
From the hundred years war of the late middle ages through to the 19th-century Napoleonic wars, beyond the signing of the entente cordiale in 1904 and to the present fishing dispute, the UK’s
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