Tuesday 20 November 2007

Fish and Fowl

Year on year during the Thatcher and Major eras, Labour MPs marched into the division lobby against the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies, very lately joined by a tiny percentage of the Tories. Then the 1997 Election happened, and the roles were suddenly reversed, except that no Labour MPs joined the Tories in opposing these evils (I can think of no other suitable word for them).

The supremacy of British over EU law must be restored, Britain’s historic fishing rights thus reasserted (in accordance with international law), and farm subsidies (a very good idea in themselves, predating accession to the EU by thirty years, and every argument for which is applicable to coal, steel, shipbuilding and their latter-day equivalents) brought back in house at national level. You know what you have to do.

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