Fish, Not Foul

There is no point tinkering at the edges, as is happening again today.

The Common Fisheries Policy must be abolished.

The United Kingdom could effectively do this by restoring the supremacy of British over EU law, and by legislating that this shall include the restoration of our historic, and internationally lawful, fishing rights: two hundred miles or to the median line.

You know what you have to do.

After all, there is no other option.

Every year between 1979 and 1997, every Labour MP without exception voted against the CFP (occasionally joined in the very last days of the Major Government by a tiny handful of Tories). But then they won a General Election, and we all know what happened next.

Restoring our fishing rights was even an old Major hand like Michael Howard’s nominal concession to Euroscepticism. But even that has been abandoned by Michael Heseltine’s mini-me, David “European People’s Party” Cameron.

And it really is very high time indeed that the Lib Dems were called, not only on their illiberal and undemocratic Eurofederalism generally, but specifically on their domination of fishing areas from every seat in Cornwall, via North Norfolk, Berwick, North East Fife and elsewhere, all the way up Orkney & Shetland.

Oh, yes, you know what you have to do.