David Cameron may have advocated meaningless withdrawal from the
European People's Party. But David Davis promised highly meaningful
withdrawal from the Common Fisheries Policy. The media never told you
that, did they?
Both Labour and the Lib Dems, as well as the latters' predecessor parties, voted against the CFP every year between 1979 and 1997. Whatever happened to those annual votes, and to the ones on the Common Agricultural Policy?
The Lib Dems have sold out the heartlands of rural Radicalism, including the North of Scotland. They have sold out their arc of fishing constituencies from Cornwall (another such heartland), through North Norfolk, Berwick, and North East Fife, all the way up to Shetland.
There is a gap to be filled. Can Labour fill it? Which is a variant on the question, is there any remaining point to the Labour Party? But if the answer is yes, then that will be yet another variant on the question, what possible excuse do the Tory papers have for failing to endorse the Labour Party?
Both Labour and the Lib Dems, as well as the latters' predecessor parties, voted against the CFP every year between 1979 and 1997. Whatever happened to those annual votes, and to the ones on the Common Agricultural Policy?
The Lib Dems have sold out the heartlands of rural Radicalism, including the North of Scotland. They have sold out their arc of fishing constituencies from Cornwall (another such heartland), through North Norfolk, Berwick, and North East Fife, all the way up to Shetland.
There is a gap to be filled. Can Labour fill it? Which is a variant on the question, is there any remaining point to the Labour Party? But if the answer is yes, then that will be yet another variant on the question, what possible excuse do the Tory papers have for failing to endorse the Labour Party?
Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
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