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The prime minister meeting the french president at the g20 for a brief meeting on sunday. so there is some opportunity potentially for some diplomacy to try and solve this, but it is an escalating row. as we have seen over the last couple of days, there is some pretty fiery rhetoric on both sides and at the moment it is hard to see how this is resolved. where does jersey and guernsey fit into this? i wonder if you could just explain that for us. jersey is one of the places a lot of french boat fish, so over the past few months there have been some flash points, you saw one in the package there, where french boats have tried to blockade parts of jersey harbour in particular. another way in whichjersey is key to this story is a lot of electricity that goes to jersey comes from france and there have been suggestions ....
Been some flash points, you saw one in the package where french boats have tried to blockade parts of jersey harbour in particular, and another way in whichjersey is key to this story is a lot of electricity that goes to jersey comes from france and there have been suggestions on the french side in the past that if this situation really escalated and if french boats were really being kept out of british waters, then potentially the price of that electricity to jersey could go up and potentially at some point it could even be cut off. so jersey plays a really important role. the uk has always worked closely with jersey as a crown dependency to try to figure out the solution that works for both sides, but the big argument today really is between the uk government and french government and it remains to be seen whether it can be figured out before the tuesday deadline. the european ....