Cormac Burke talks common sense about Leaving the EU
FIGHTING FOR COMMON SENSE IN A SYSTEM WHERE A CORRECTLY ‘BENT’ BANANA IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIVELIHOODS, TRADITION AND HERITAGE
Although the final decision of a ‘Brexit’ will ultimately lie in the hands of voters who are looking at a wide range of economic impacts or possible benefits and not just one industry or sector, the ‘Fishing for Leave’ campaign believes that it is vital that these voters must be made fully aware of the destruction and decimation of the once ‘great’ British fishing industry since power of control was surrendered to the European Union. At the core of the anger of those wanting freedom and to break away from the EU is simply the fact that this is “not what we signed up for” — as a nation (indeed for all the individual nations who are members of the EU), the agreement was to join a European ‘common market’ which, in principle, was a reasonable proposal i.e. that a community of nations should work together as one to benefit the economy of each individual. Read the article here 15:33
Cormac Burke nails it with this article.
“Fish stocks of many species have improved almost in spite of EU management rather than because of it…” (Sound Familiar?)
The article is about dropping out of the EU; but what Cormac Burke is saying about the European Union’s fishery management, sadly, seems to apply worldwide—at least among the “developed” nations.
In fact, Jane Lubchenco and Maria Damanaki (EU Fishery Commissioner) were best buddies and seemed to share the same commercial fishing dismantling “goals”.