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Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by James Forsyth and the journalist John Litchfield who's written

a fantastic article about what exactly is happening in the channel.

John, to start with, can you explain what exactly is happening?

Are the French declaring another war over mussels?

Not of mussels. Scallops, welks, soul and place, I think probably, more likely. Yes, from Tuesday, the French are saying that unless the British give way on this dispute about fishing licences for boats in very close

in inshore waters that they will do two or three things.

One, stop British, mostly Chandlerland boats from landing their fish catches in French ports,

which is a big issue for them.

But mostly, I think the biggest issue is that they're going to start playing around essentially

and enforcing the regulations as vigorously as they can and as any of the French know how to

on trucks arriving from Britain to the continent which as we knew at Christmas could cause a

real backup of trucks on the Folkestone end or the Dover end and cause real problems

for British trade to the continent, which is already suffering post-Brexit. So I think that is

the greater threat at the moment. There's a further threat longer down the road, if it doesn't

solve, of maybe messing around with electricity supplies to, mostly to the Channel Islands, which get 95% of

their electricity from France, but also to Britain, which gets something like 7% of electricity

in France. But frankly, I don't think that is going to be a very serious threat. They've

withdrawn the rather foolish threat that they made earlier this year to cut off the electricity

to the China Islands. That isn't going to happen.

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