In the early days of the Save Britain’s Fish campaign it became obvious that the establishment’s lawyers were going to take us head on, and the only way we could combat that was to study law, especially Constitution Law. This […]
One theme that runs through the UK’s 43-year involvement with the EEC/EU is that our politicians – supported by the Civil Servants – have done everything in their power to keep the UK locked into the Common Fisheries Policy and […]
One cannot expect to cross examine Prime Minister David Cameron on the issues on which he intends to campaign to stay in the EU if the leavers can’t explain what will replace EU membership. Hence the reason for FleXcit, which […]
Our British political representatives continually assured everyone things would be okay for British fishermen, with the huge Spanish fishing fleet becoming into the “community fleet”. They gave assurances that all would be well when the first ten-year derogation ran out, […]
When the original six member states produced the fisheries regulation in 1970 that created the Common Fisheries Policy, they must have thought they had a winner. Not only did they think they would do well out of the policy, but […]
The Fishing issue is such a wonderful example of how the European Union functions; everything is not what it seems, especially from the British side. We entered a common policy, not really knowing what we had joined. Those that knew […]
