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It is late so I beg forgiveness for my flight of fancy brought on by this report in the Scotsman;

After 30 odd years of the EU controlling our fishing industry we find ourselves in the unenviable position of to many fishermen chasing to few fish, this despite the fact that we have already cut our fishing fleet to the bone.

Ben Bradshaw, Britain’s fisheries minister, and Ross Finnie, Scotland’s rural affairs minister, have made it clear that the demand by Joe Borg, the European Fisheries Commissioner, for substantial reductions in the number of days skippers will be able to fish next year is totally unacceptable. And yesterday they vowed to fight for a fairer deal for UK trawlermen.

Mr Borg originally called for a 25 per cent cut in the 173 days Scottish skippers can currently spend at sea. On Tuesday he tabled a compromise deal for a 20 per cent reduction. And late yesterday afternoon he tabled a further compromise for a 15 per cent cut which was immediately condemned as “disastrous” by fishermen’s leaders.

The EU idea is that in order to conserve stocks we should cut the fishing fleet and limit the number of days allowed for fishing has not worked, but true to form even thought there are viable alternatives the EU turns its deaf ear and just keeps on plugging away, keeps on demanding further cuts.

I don’t really think my fantasy thoughts would work, but I was just wondering as the EU churns out so many rules and regulations the elitists might like to try to take onboard that which they have forced on our fishermen. Perhaps as they are over-producing in the dictates department, they just might consider cutting down the days they devoted to their work, obviously the fewer days they are at it, the fewer rules and regulations will be produced. Of course they would have to take on board that a cut in pecuniary benefits would go along with their lower production rate. I was thinking that perhaps we could initially hone down the days they were forced to produce to just one or two a month. Eventually we might even be in a position to do away with them altogether, we could then use those MPs we elect to Westminster to fill in the gaps left by the EU elites you know making the laws we want for the benefit of this country.

But then I am forgetting we also have the EU to thank for the Common Agricultural Police sorry I mean Policy, I bet the buggers would be demanding set aside payments.