Lobster pot petition

This petition is open to signing by anyone with "UK residency or citizenship". I feel that it should have also been open to signing by Irish sailors, we do frequently sail in each others waters after all, and one of the promotional videos for it featured Norman Kean, of Irish Cruising Guides fame, relating a pot-buoy incident which happened to him in Bantry Bay.
I considered myself suitably qualified to sign by virtue of my Essex birth and the Belfast postcode provided by my delivery locker service:)
 
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When I voted, I sent some feedback, complaining that it was "only open to UK residents and citizens" and should also be open to residents of the Republic of Ireland. They sent me an answer saying that it was "only open to UK residents and citizens". grrrh!��.
 
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Spirit (of Glenans) said:
When I voted, I sent some feedback, complaining that it was only open to UK residents and citizens and should also be open to residents of the Republic of Ireland. They sent me an answer saying that it was only open to UK residents and citizens grrrh!��.
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?? What's your issue? It's a request to the UK government for action through UK agencies; why should it be open to citizens/residents of the Republic of Ireland? Are you also asking for similar access for the Dutch/Belgians/French, etc? Surely you should be organising/promoting an equivalent petition to the Irish government?
 
Lodesman77 said:
?? What's your issue? It's a request to the UK government for action through UK agencies; why should it be open to citizens/residents of the Republic of Ireland? Are you also asking for similar access for the Dutch/Belgians/French, etc? Surely you should be organising/promoting an equivalent petition to the Irish government?
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In this particular post, my issue was the petition hosts stating the bl***ing obvious, perhaps you should read it again!
To answer your second question; So why can't citizens of neighbouring countries request action from the UK government?
I wasn't particularly thinking of the Dutch, Belgians, French etc., only the UK and Ireland. There exists, since the formation of the Irish state in 1922, a Common Travel Area between the two jurisdictions, allowing citizens of both to move freely in and out of each other's territories and this is relevant to the yachtsmen who sail the seas all around the British Isles.
Irish people who had a parent born before 1922 have a right to British citizenship, and people resident in Northern Ireland have a right to Irish citizenship, so it's not as black and white as you seem to think.
Please note; as I adverted to in my initial post, (#2) one of the videos promoting this petition was made by Norman Kean, a Northern Irishman who writes the Cruising Guides for Irish waters, and in it he relates a story of how his boat got snagged on a pot-buoy in Bantry Bay, (which is in the far southwest of the ROI).
 
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So all of us who signed should have received an email last night with the government response. Which gives a link to the relevant regulation. A quick scan shows that there are effectively no regulations within the 12 mile limit.

As a response this seems about as useless as Twister ken predicted in another thread but maybe the RYA and the Cruising Association can use this to kick start the discussion.
 
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