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they invade our private lives to surveillance. his opaque, secretive works through what's vague, it doesn't matter. the only criteria is worked. we'll hook people up for they a threat to whistle opaque worlds this week on d. w. o. o here in ne england, the fishing industry overwhelmingly supported breaks it. fishermen were keen to take back control of u. k. waters and become independent of brussels. almost 70 percent of voters in the region wanted britain to leave the e u. but now that's happened. they feel let down i
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almost feel embarrassed. i bullshit out. i wish i could stand by the blow the way, the promised is the certainly overly way off. now. we're west or some people over grimsby, a port town by the north sea. yeah. oh good. so, 10 minutes you aware that i, i to rush darren, kenyon is one of grims these last working fishermen, while he waits for one of his fishing boats to return to shore. he is repairing his lobster pots. he's been working since the age of 13 these days. it's main. he the younger fisherman working for his company who had out
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to see his labs as he calls them. darren takes care of everything on dry land. he learned his trade from his father. they used to spend weeks at sea every day, but in the 19 ninety's, the use common fisheries policy took its toll on the family business offices. the company switched its focus. the shellfish brought nails in the coffin as we've gone along. but i think we're getting to the end of a now we're, we're getting down to the last root nails and nazi, you know, and it's to audi it's, it's, it's really odd with the rules and regulations to keep going. they just keep going . more and more goes on. yet many local fishermen have long since given up. darren still has 3 vessels manned by 3 crews. he's managed to keep his business afloat. but like many here,
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he'd penned his hopes on breaks it. he thought he'd be free from brussels bureaucracy and e u fishing quotas. one politician in particular, had promised fishermen that breaks it would revive their fortunes. boris johnson visited grimsby on the campaign trail martin boyer as chief executive of grimsby fish market, a british institution for the last 80 years seafood, destined for restaurants and fish and chips. shops across the country is sold here . a daily auctions overseen by the boss himself was one of the phases of the industry. it was way fine hearing grimsley isn't as follows. emotionally to vote is a very high profile subject carries a huge white, emotionally. that's exactly what boris johnson took
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advantage of the region as part of what's known as the red wall. the british constituencies that have traditionally voted labor. i visited and late december 2019. just a few days before britain went to the polls and a general election. i incumbent prime minister theresa may was bogged down and exit negotiations with the e. u. and rex it hard liner, boris johnson was determined to unseat her. here in grimsby, he pulled out all the stops. i, joey, k. i'm legally made a great story because oh, he came out with yeah, futures with so anytime any of the politicians also project,
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the fisherman visible the human. he's always been a little thing. ah, therein is getting a boat ready to go out. he uses crab scraps as bait for welcome looking back, he realizes that breaks it was used as bait in the last election to in this town. here. we've always voted labor when boris came down to grimsby and then everybody change the opinion, he's gonna help posen this on the over. so. and everybody voted conservatives, especially grimsby morris. johnson's pledge to help the fishing industry take back control of u. k. waters and increase catches helped him away in both, including darren's, believing that better times lay ahead. he bought an old trawler.
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so we've, we've done about joe, the officials have been here and of chic to, along as we go, we going free stages. so they've done all our and not one of them have said anything to he spent a year renovating it, using up all his savings. he's invested half a 1000000 pounds, over half a 1000000 euros, and the new vessel zillow. i draw, it's all new pipes. everything's over on new. zoe. the engine obviously is not new . darren bought the 30 year old trawler from the family of a fisherman who died. but after doing it up, he was in for a rude awakening. because the trawler hadn't been used for 2 years. it was classified as new by the fisheries authority and lost its fishing quota. ah, my argument is, it's been fishy for 50 years. and then suddenly again,
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go fishing. i could probably go back fishing, but have told me that after by about half a 1000000 pound for the quota, so it will, will just didn't war. we've got to get rid of it from out. now we're going to sell it. the government had promised to cut you red tape, but darren says it's worse than ever. the company's cold storage, lobster pots and shop are just across the road. darren's wife jenny, takes care of orders and deliveries. she likes working in a family business or son in law. dean is in charge of packaging. her daughter laura process is the shellfish. but when the business is struggling, there's less family time. are they all thought that breaks it would take the pressure off? that's not how it's turned out. ah,
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we don't have an i love to do something different. and not think about going down. the money wasted on restoring the old fishing boat, left them financially worse off. it weighs on all their minds. i suppose. yeah, an eagle eaten sleep night worrying about that. little sal. hopefully. darren put the trawler up for sale for 400000 pounds. a lot less than what he paid for it. every day they check to see if anyone's interested in what will. the trouble is. every one here knows that breaks it has left the fishing industry. real angler for new equipment, tricks, grow, feel really let down. really let down. we're. we're west of them before i say so it's been cho was the john for the wish.
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with therein tied up the dock, while one of his boats heads out ah, ah, john steele and a young apprentice are off to catch wealth in the humber estuary. ah, he's also angry about broken bricks. it promises and thinks boris johnson sold the fishing industry down the river. spanish and french boats are still allowed to fish and the u. k. exclusive economic zone 12 miles from the coast. the government failed to change this in its negotiations with the e u. f. the fishermen, holland dozens of these white plastic traps. welk are a delicacy in france. south korea and china.
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with right to may. 20. 30000 pound. yeah. on a good. yay. from 850000 pounds on the body, alchemy, 10000 pound. we away, i well this was underneath was in control of that 3 other government anomaly. john steele isn't employed by darren. like all the local fishermen, he's self employed. they're paid according to what they catch. that means that if things go badly, they can be out on the boat for 3 days, but only earn a few pounds. but they love the freedom of working on the water. apprentice, scott bly has been working with john for 2 months now, and hopes he'll be able to earn a living as a fisherman, despite the challenges. will think change, right? i will think, i feel a little change from, like i said,
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the government watches that funding people and training calls his fishing schools, you know, whole thing. what, you know, the big ways or the grants it was today with the fishing industry filica making blind even though he's got a great grandma marine command it's. it's a lot what we also common people think about along with a few days later, grimsby fishermen used to bring their cash directly to the dog at the fish market. these days, the biggest sellers are con and havoc used in fish and chips explains martin boilers. the bidding process is almost imperceptible, the blink of an eye, a slight nod of ahead. 99995 molar
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. the space is on the beach market has been landed by vessels. these opal mobile on all of this makes it easy on the market today. all of this is icelandic, so this is an all in house mainly for iceland. high margin, boyer is blames. ocean warming, pardon had migrated to colder waters off iceland, greenland and norway. that's where british trawlers fished when britain was part of the e. u. common fisheries policy, boris johnson promised to negotiate better terms. but the u. k. government failed to strike deals with these countries, and fishermen are now facing financial ruin. if the fisherman, i thought about the french it raises in the 1st life though, devoted to stay in the you role is holes in the common that you've policy was system in place. so now will the u. k. goldman fisheries are doing written in gauging what was there in the 1st place, the negotiation,
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we know why about reciprocal arrangement on the not getting them though negotiated with iceland. so all of the people that thought about leave in and it would also be rosy. it doesn't happen. growing unemployment and the humber side area is one result. was the city of whole is north of the humber bridge. karl malone works at cape street fisheries, a traditional fish and chip shop. he's also feeling the cold winds of bricks. it. it's early in the morning and he's taking delivery of today's fresh fish. now that britain doesn't have any of its own fleets and sub arctic waters, it has to buy fish from norway and iceland. take for a gun. all these boxes this year would be $1140.00 pound price breaks
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it, that fish now to day is $2.00 at $220.00 pounds. so obviously the absolves our profit. we cannot pass that to the customer as their wages are not increasing. so that we subsidize the price of the customer, making it non profitable. 2100 lake to to before a to the i over paid last. we brought it on 2000 ford. nate. yup. karl malone has had his shop for 38 years, but he struggling in the wake of brakes. it whole is one of the poorest places in britain, fish and chips is the national dish classic working class fair. but these days it's too expensive for many. again, in the past, i would have sold people would buy a lot sized fish. now that are the money to pay for this fish. and all that has to be go through smaller fish because then they'll pay the price for the smaller fish
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. is becoming a luxury for the waking month. ah. he prepares his ingredients every morning before the 1st customers start arriving around 1130. ah. then mushy. peas. let's just generally all low people like down pole. but even the price is for peas. have risen since britain left the e u. he's here 20 pounds the fact this time last year there was 10 pound havoc, cool, massive buff doubling price because there is no eastern european whackers coming over to pick the peas in the field. so obviously the office did and the market is always reduced which increase his price. so again, major problem when carl opened his shop in the 1980s, beverly road was
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a part of a vibrant neighbourhood with shops and pubs lining the street. 168 percent of people and whole voted for brakes it they thought it would help turn the economy around. sancho works at the shop. coral tries to take things in stride. these to there are for a promotion for cheap booties which is chips inside the bone, normally would be to found $85.00 today's special off a warm bomb. my fair is a pound is rather nothing. so let's take a pound also. about an hour until opening in grimsby. some 50 kilometers away.
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darren canyon need some new equipment for his boat. he still hasn't found a buyer for his trawler. place these days, this fishing supplies door relies on online business. there aren't many customers left here in grimsby shop owner simon monday, helps darren in the big coils. hey frank, i will cut that one dogs. yeah, that's legged. i'm just letting them know i that might be a bit fake that say actually let's put stuff ball that i was a come from a from you daren. yeah. now i want you to stick on that full day. yeah,
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i'll have to go back. i'll go, i'll tell that 14, but this is good enough for tow in it to go. darren has been coming here for years, but he's told simon all about the trouble with his boat and how no one wants to buy it yet. he's just had an idea though, right? he's going to write to his local m p with the troll simon at the moment or a bit so, so i'm going to write to the am pay, it may be the fishery mini said, just to send to melissa. so explain why a bowl to fishing license. we've done the bow joke to talk spec than what and of 10 mountain and said we can even go fishing with it. and i much believe you spend who spends a lot of money, a lot of money to get to the end. so it's absolutely diabolical. right. 2 sets of 14 gauge ropes and new gloves
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for one of graham's bes, last fishermen. it's 1130 and the 1st customers are here. lauren with macy also works for coral. lunch times can get busy. la, 3 pounds and 15 pence for a lunch of 2 chip buddies and mushy peas. the specialty is fish and batter, but times are tough and most customers order, chip buddies. these days cornel mc,
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loan cells, shellfish in extra large regular and small portions me personally. i vaulted out on, regretted it within 24 hours. i have children. i have 2 boys and underwear things just go in the things was getting told, you know, who they politicians on the news and i just thought for the children's future, adams, my grand children's future, maybe it would be bad for them. we was only all the information we paid, then we wasn't told that we received anything back. we assumed we was the highest pain and country in europe and received nothing. obviously, they told us the full name with gus, van chess. it hasn't vain and are on the dentist to get my 2 sons
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a checkup cuz have not been checked since before cove. it because they closed everywhere. and they said a 3 year waiting list for the dentist. so a 3 away to be seen. how are you? oh, oh, shit. like a place in order like it breaks it is hitting families hard here with among them. yes sarah and keith harrison. they have 3 children, harvey, tia and sky chips are correct. twice on the list, smell comes up and the kids get chip buddies for lunch once a month for a special treat with
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they if they can't afford a large portion of fish and chips drivers they, you know, alum basically the cheapest way to get to ship it out there you enjoy it though. yeah. yeah. and your other cheaper middle of the harrison's are struggling to make ends meet after keith was made redundant, they had to move into social housing. he used to work for a frozen fruits company, but his employer was another casualty. of breaks it, there were difficulties and delays with imports. where definitely were stella omitted madness. when ne genova income of
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this year they can't afford to let harvey and his little sisters join sports clubs. and a lot of youth clubs that used to get you funding have had to shut kids are left glued to their screens at home or getting up to no good on the streets. bother. and the trouble is what they're doing. there's not the for to no longer i like for no, you know, from after school goes there, but oh, kids don't. nowadays you don't want to see impact player and all that are in the box and that are there. now i can go, you know. 2 a juvenile crime is a problem in home. young people have few prospects and nothing to keep them
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busy. many turn to drug dealing and work as careers to earn a bit of cash. i've like serious kids. i'm saying if i fail once, once you join their flight through stuff, your life i've been used to had about was who did? she was like not but yeah. so how about i'm of them because i made some actual would send me harvey's meeting up with one of those friends later. it's been a month since darren sent his letter. neither his local m p nor the fisheries ministry has been in touch. and he's still waiting for someone to make him an offer on his trawler. there were bug situation and we people that wanna invest really, i suppose way. the climate, you know, with the way the fishing is obviously, ah,
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the family depends on the shellfish business, remaining steady. hello my wife, she's always moaning about the boat that will never change. i just tried it capable of fishing into grimsby and to keep a few of the lads keep doing it. said the count really wick for bigger companies where the need laptops and that you know, i can't really explain it. we're not very educational and, and there is gaps fur further than you know for young lots like myself years ago. what when we're not the bry jayce, but we can work with um these wells are destined for cool storage telephone studio. yeah, i got a put the machine, so mix of beats. then you can do that. he thought for the time people his parents
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can't afford the bus ticket in the town is when it so once a week of harvey gets picked up by steve arnett, who runs the beat bus project, he had a tough childhood here in hull and now works with disadvantaged kids. the project helps youngsters gain confidence and broaden their horizons through writing and performing rap music. a few people can add money normally on the need to add money, then the going to add money and some of away our projects is about given these young people aspirations and belief in the self and to look up music in the apps as a, as a savvy, if korea and something they could do with their life, rather than making the wrong choices and going down the selling drugs, getting involved in a gum culture life. it came in, be harvey's, been a part of the beat bus project for 4 years. so the kids don't have to pay anything
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to join but the free project is now at risk. so just have a look now. ah. when we 1st started out, we got business support that was funded by the european union. and now that's nonexistent as well. that's totally finished. steve arnold has spent a lot of time looking for sponsors to keep the project going. he's given up expecting any kind of support from the government in london, 34. with i lou fast, man. life won't speak when he did speak. he was like, ah, all the time went yet and now is yeah, he stands on on stage a beat boxes in front of a 100 people and it makes us proudman makes very proud. so kids like to think i can
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do good, like get some pleasures in life. it's a since they always said that been keep going and going on of lou darren's lads are on a break. the next boat will be setting off to night. a fine in a hard battle will keep try in will, you know, it'll be a sub day if i had to buckle. but will we, you know, big it take a long time for me to do that. but there is a lot against those. ah, ah,
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ah, leonardo da vinci's mysterious masterpiece. oh, that is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mona lisa. it is the virgin of the rocks, 2 versions, multiple copies, and a hidden drawing. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? search for answers distorts july 7th on d w. ah
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