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The current British Politicians aiming for a nice €300k a year job within it would disagree!

Spot the difference between a politician who talks the talk and a bloke who walks the talk

He did a fantastic job. :blink:

The wasteful practice of discarding (throwing undersized fish back) Has now been replaced with the "landing obligation"! (thumbs)

"Under the landing obligation all catches have to be kept on board, landed and counted against the quotas. Undersized fish cannot be marketed for human consumption purposes".

I bet the fishermen are well chuffed that he got involved. :whistle:

The whole fiasco about the size of fish dumped, used of whatever seems fairly easy to resolve in the eyes of someone living about as far from the sea as you can get in the UK. Make the holes in the nets bigger!

There's obviously a reason why that can't happen and it's much too early in the morning to investigate the reasons but it does prove that Farage is a bit of a wanker (if anyone needed it proving) and the EU probably wasted a few thousand days if you add up the time the whole thing took with hundreds of men and women on committees.

misterlaffer wrote:So ultimately, what happens to the undersize fish ? Is there anything there that suggests they actually get EATEN ? What a load of bollocks. A few middle class twats banging on about sustainable fishing practices. How many of those undersize fish make it to food banks across Europe, I'm willing to bet zero, they are all incinerated once they have been sold of for bate or maybe fish oil products - governed even further by the mighty EU in processing practices.

It does seem that they've made a complete mess of it but don't you think that controls are needed on the size and quantity of fish taken from certain areas? I don't want to see thousands of fishermen from various countries stripping areas of fish no matter who they are or where they come from.

It does raise the question about whether fishermen from EU countries will have to stick to EU regulations when fishing in our waters if we leave or will we need to impose our own regulations and enforce them ourselves? We can be the modern day equivalent of Iceland but we've got nukes to impose our rules (thumbs)

So ultimately, what happens to the undersize fish ? Is there anything there that suggests they actually get EATEN ? What a load of bollocks. A few middle class twats banging on about sustainable fishing practices. How many of those undersize fish make it to food banks across Europe, I'm willing to bet zero, they are all incinerated once they have been sold of for bate or maybe fish oil products - governed even further by the mighty EU in processing practices.

imo the size and complexity of the problems faced by the two are completely different ..making comparison impossible ..
.... :blink: seems to me the greatest threat is the euro going down the toilet - has anyone noticed the extent of the bad news they have bottled up in spain-italy-portugal?
accumulated debt for these countries is presently.. 3,433,176,548,772 euros or £2,231,564,756,701(appx), the UK has about £1,553,010,309,388 debt in comparison
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when you compare this to the size of their economies, you realise they are in deep doodoo

dave448 wrote:imo the size and complexity of the problems faced by the two are completely different ..making comparison impossible ..
.... :blink: seems to me the greatest threat is the euro going down the toilet - has anyone noticed the extent of the bad news they have bottled up in spain-italy-portugal?
accumulated debt for these countries is presently.. 3,433,176,548,772 euros or £2,231,564,756,701(appx), the UK has about £1,553,010,309,388 debt in comparison
‌ :huh:
when you compare this to the size of their economies, you realise they are in deep doodoo

I fail to see why this silly argument regularly trotted out is of any relevance. We have an independent currency and if anything, when the Euro goes down as it did a couple of years ago, we benefited as all of a sudden everyone wanted to invest in the UK economy. There are so many crap arguments being put out by the leave campaign. As the saying goes - the emptier the can the louder it rattles.