Christopher Whiteside MBE is currently chairman of Whitehaven & Workington Conservatives. He writes this blog in a personal capacity. He previously stood for parliament in Copeland and Leeds NE.
He has served as a County, City & District, Borough, Town and Parish councillor, and has also been a school governor and health authority member. He is currently an Egremont Town Councillor.
He lives and works in the North of England, dividing his time between Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Promise him an ever increasing amount of all the fish caught by others.
In the end you have so many people dependent on stolen fish, and all who remember how to fish, fishing elsewhere.
You use state fishing boats, but they run on fish to no net gain. So the only way to keep them running is to continue to take ever increasing amounts of fish from private fishers. So even more go to better fishing waters.
You need to start to borrow fish, but then anyone who loans 5 fish wants 6 fish back. You can't repay that as your state boats don't gain any fish and you have no private fishers left. You have a nation now dependent on state fish, but no one remembers how to fish.
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In the end you have so many people dependent on stolen fish, and all who remember how to fish, fishing elsewhere.
You use state fishing boats, but they run on fish to no net gain. So the only way to keep them running is to continue to take ever increasing amounts of fish from private fishers. So even more go to better fishing waters.
You need to start to borrow fish, but then anyone who loans 5 fish wants 6 fish back. You can't repay that as your state boats don't gain any fish and you have no private fishers left. You have a nation now dependent on state fish, but no one remembers how to fish.
Oh dear.