Friday 24 February 2012

Fish And Foul Play

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. 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?

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