Are we going to leave the Single Market or not? And what about the EU’s customs union? – a subject that never cropped up in the referendum debate last year. Do some politicians even know the difference between the two? […]
The Swinging Sixties and Beyond It is easy to forget how much things have changed since the Sixties. There was no internet. So unless you subscribed to specialist publications or were in a political party or special interest or trade […]
Fishing for Leave welcomes Michael Gove’s appointment as Secretary of State for Defra. Press officer Alan Hastings said “FFL are happy given his family connections to fishing and his Brexit credentials and hope he does both justice”. “Although Defra is […]
EPISODE 1 – Early intimations. “Shades of the prison house begin to close upon the growing boy” – Ode on intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood by William Wordsworth. We moved into the countryside from the house next […]
19th May 2017 Release: Immediate Words: 700 (+300 extra) Contact: Alan Hastings 0782 739 9408 Fishing For Leave is incredulous over 4 specific words in the Conservative manifesto which indicate the government will only take back a tiny slice of […]
The roots of the SNP lie in the fishing communities of the North East of Scotland. The recent desire for Scottish independence, in other words, was borne out of a desire to regain national control over fisheries, which by then […]
