Given the relentless ruination of the UK fishing industry by the European Union, I would have expected a rather more vigorous “debate” with EU’s Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki on Today this morning. 7.13am No such luck! She was able to come on, waffle her way through a pathetic interview concerning the latest nonsense from Brussels. I wonder how many listeners take the sanguine approach to EU Fisheries policy adopted by the BBC? It’s almost as if the BBC quite like the decimation of our fishing industry but naturally that couldn’t be the case. Could it?
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Does anyone else here dislike the voices of Evan Davies and Justin Webb? There’s something oleaginous about them; and insincere.
Yes, intensely. It’s as if it’s all a game to them, in which they think that they hold all the trump cards. They both sound totally disingenuous, reflecting the general ambience of that programme in particular, and the BBC in general. I, personally, would dearly love to shove them both in the stocks and throw copies of the IPCC AR4, and other heavyweight crap at them…
Greasy, patronising slimeballs
It is the sneering tone and air of superiority of most Beeboids which really gets me.
You’d have thought that the BBC would be fanatical in its support for the fisting industry. Oh, sorry, I misread that…
Look at the BBC headline: “Fish discards could end under EU proposals“.
As if the cause was nothing to do with the EU, who are now riding to the aid of the environment. Oh, and look who wrote it.
Fishermen, farmers, independent craftsmen. They are the real enemy of the liberal left. Too independent by half and until they are crushed into submission there will be no EUSSR for the beeboids to wallow in.
Dave,
I was just about to post that Beeboids hate farmers and fishermen.
Roland
Yip, that is really my point!
The main problem always was that we enforced the rules that our own government made many times worse. This did not happen in France, Spain or Italy. I was on holiday in France some little time after the CFP came in and was surprised at the new, large fishing boats in the harbours there. We were scrapping them left, right and centre. Patterson wrote a paper on fish conservation having studied what other Countries were doing, it was expected that “Dave” would make him “fisheries minister”, but no, he got dropped and his paper with him. So much for “EUrosceptic Dave”.
pfff….
I have to tell you that fisheries “observers” are supposed to have been monitoring EU fisheries on board the vessels for 8 years+ to my certain knowledge and that the lobbing of stuff over the side ws well known, as is the catching of juvenile fish (Ola! Spain – nul point there mateys)
The observers reports have been simply tossed in the bin by bent bureaucrats often in receipt of money from fish companies who substitute their own figures.
It’s a racket pure and simple. It’s a racket that pretty well goes about it’s business as bold as brass, in plain sight, like many other EU broken projects that our state broadcaster deliberately doesn’t tell you about.
A procession of utterly clueless and worthless gits have filled the fisheries minister position in the UK, the Sir Humphreys have used fishing as a pawn in their selfish games and UK taxpayers and UK fishermen have paid the price. The EU fisheries policy has SFA to do with fish.
It’s a rotten shambles.