Quote of the day 9th April 2016
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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Its written by John Ashworth of "Restore Britains Fish" - one of the key groups that form The Leave Alliance. It is well worth a read, if your eyes are up up to it :-)
Any way you will find it Here
For perhaps 42 of the 45 years since Britain joined the EU the utterly indefensible mess which was the Common Fisheries Policy was one of the strongest arguments against our membership.
I used to say that "Because fish move, it would actually be a good idea to have a rational common fisheries policy. What a shame we don't have one."
However, two or three years ago we finally - FINALLY - started to get some genuine and very significant reforms in the policy which is now massively different to what it was.
I will be interested to see what the document has to say about how the new policy is working.l