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    The Cod Wars

    The British-Icelandic Cod Wars
    were a series of confrontations of ramming vessels into each other
    over a territorial dispute over fishing rights in the North Atlantic
    where there's a lot of cod fish... and the British love cod fish n' chips,
    (a dish introduced to the British from Spain.)

    The Icelanders won the cod wars.

    The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Ţorskastríđin, "the cod wars", or Landhelgisstríđin, "the wars for the territorial waters") were a series of confrontations between the United Kingdom and Iceland on fishing rights in the North Atlantic.

    Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory.

    The Third Cod War concluded in 1976, with a highly favourable agreement for Iceland; the United Kingdom conceded to a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) Icelandic exclusive fishery zone after threats that Iceland would withdraw from NATO, which would have forfeited NATO's access to most of the GIUK gap, a critical anti-submarine warfare chokepoint during the Cold War.

    As a result, British fishing communities lost access to rich areas and were devastated, with thousands of jobs lost.
    Since 1982, a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zone has been the United Nations standard.

    The term "cod war" was coined by a British journalist in early September 1958. None of the Cod Wars met any of the common thresholds for a conventional war, and they may more accurately be described as militarised interstate disputes.

    There is only one confirmed death during the Cod Wars: an Icelandic engineer, who was accidentally killed in the Second Cod War while he was repairing damage on the Icelandic gunboat Ćgir after a collision with the British frigate Apollo.

    They collided again, on 29 August 1973.

    Several explanations for the Cod Wars have been put forward. Recent studies have focused on the underlying economic, legal and strategic drivers for Iceland and the United Kingdom, as well as the domestic and international factors that contributed to the escalation of the dispute. Lessons drawn from the Cod Wars have been applied to international relations theory.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars

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    Great Britain and Iceland have been peaceful with each other since the final Cod War, but another incident occurred in October 2008 when Iceland was placed on an international terrorist nation list by a former UK Labour Party Prime Minister.

    Gordon Brown was an unelected former UK Labour Prime Minister from Scotland (who was very unpopular with the British people,) and he put Iceland on a list as a 'terrorist nation' after Iceland refused to pay massive losses to the UK and Dutch people who'd invested in Icesave before it collapsed.

    The dispute centred on the demand by the British and Dutch states that the Icelandic state should repay the Icelandic minimum deposit guarantees (up to €20,887 per account holder), equal to Ł2.35bn (€2.7bn) repaid to the UK and €1.3bn repaid to the Netherlands.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icesave_dispute
    Then a British bank (Northern Rock) collapsed and British taxpayers were expected by Brown to bail out the bank. Angry British people moved their savings into off-shore Irish banks to avoid UK bank charges imposed by Gordon Brown, and so it backfired on the UK government.

    The Irish were shown in the media as being very happy with the surge of Brits withdrawing their savings from British banks and investing in off-shore Irish banks, with Gordon Brown looking upset and trying to urge British people to stay with British banks.

    Unelected Gordon Brown then demanded the Irish people to have a second referendum vote on the Lisbon Treaty, after the Irish people initially voted no to the Lisbon Treaty - which was signing Irish powers over to EU control.

    The UK people weren't allowed any referendum vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

    Gordon Brown sent his Foreign Secretary instead to meet with all the other EU state leaders in Lisbon - as Gordon said he had more important things to do in the UK first than meet with all the other EU leaders in Lisbon.

    All the other EU leaders patiently waited for the arrival of Gordon to sign the Lisbon Treaty... and he kept them all waiting for his arrival for a long time in a show of power (and some EU state leaders lost their patience and walked out,) and then finally Gordon turned-up late in Lisbon, signed away UK sovereignty to the EU behind closed doors and away from the rest of the leaders, (much to the absolute fury of the UK people,) and then he refused to drink champagne with the rest of the EU leaders, refused to stand with them in photographs, refused to socialise with them, and went home.

    Icelandic people held angry protests and were furious with Gordon Brown for expecting the Icelandic taxpayers to cover the bill for an astronomical debt to the British and Dutch people who lost money by investing their savings into Iceland's banks. It would take them over a lifetime to repay it all.

    The Icelanders had a debt level on a scale worse than the U.S. in relation to the small size of their nation... so they held a revolution (with little media coverage,) overthrew their government and jailed their bankers, stuck two fingers up to the EU and refused to join them, and two years after their revolution they became one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.

    Then a big volcano erupted in Iceland which caused a huge cloud of ash to blow over Great Britain, and so flights in and out of the UK were suspended for days and a lot of business and money was lost.

    The comical video below was made by an Icelander calling on Scandinavian nations to support Iceland... and is a mockery of Gordon Brown for claiming that Iceland is a terrorist nation.
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    Cod fish 'n' chips with mushy peas and tomato sauce is one of the favourite dishes of the British... so much so, that they'd go to war over cod.

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