Our lads even extended courtesy to this foreign vessel, knowing full well the real blame for the existing mess, lays squarely at the door of Britain’s continuing ‘non government’.

Meanwhile, the French are holding our mariners hostage in their ports, even inflicting physical damage to boats and injury to crews and neither the French authorities (they support their own) or our lot, lifts a finger to put them where they should be after these actions, in court.

The whole world knows our officials are a soft touch whenever the going gets tough, they constantly short change the armed forces and the police, pander to European dictat and criminality at home and simply hid behind an endless list of excuses for not implementing forthright action that effects people’s every day lives.

But boy, do they lay down the law when you or I overfill the bins, or dare to react to protect your own home from someone they should have sorted out years ago.

Surely, the ever expanding tax bills our families and businesses pay our officials is to look after the British people’s personal, family and homeland interests, or are we just pawns to be played, to ensure their pensions and perks?

We have some of the finest fishing grounds in the world which belong to the British people.

Okay, let’s share the English Channel with the French, they will probably claim it soon anyway, but stop the rot now before we have no fleet left and have to buy our own fish back from the assorted international fleets that are robbing our seas and creating the dumping scandal.

If historical rights are the basis of argument for them fishing our waters, then I guess on that basis we should still have an empire, however, the occupants told us to get the hell off their territory, and rightly so.

Iceland had it all worked out and acted in its people’s best interests and have a strong fishery.

The fish breed like there is no tomorrow, they need to, there won’t be a tomorrow for fishing, unless we act for Britain and our fishermen.

Paul Sykes, The Carrs, Ruswarp