Macron wants his share of the gateau

Emmanuel Macron is clearly a cod lover because he wants French fishing vessels to have access to all the cod-rich waters around the UK. So do a deal, Monsieur President. Ring up that haughty Barnier and tell him to get the fishy stuff sorted. You've got three days before La Guillotine comes down on trade prospects. Not that the fish problem is the only thing to resolve before the Boris-imposed deadline of Sunday December 31 arrives. But can't Macron and Merkel sort this all out. What have they been doing all this time? For Macron to make this remark now, as he is about to lose access to UK waters to do his fishing (theoretically), why didn't he step forward before? A whole year they have had, us and them, to get a sensible trade deal agreed but I think it's fair to say that on the three big topics, fishing, competition rules and how any deal would be enforced, there is simply no agreement whatsoever and nothing is going to change that in the next three days, whatever Macron comes up with next. If the French president is not going to get his fish then he will just have to eat cake instead. Just like Queen Marie-Antoinette said during the French revolution.