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WHAT KIND OF EUROPEAN UNION IS IT?
EU FISHING POLICY
COSTS US BILLIONS
[Daily Mail-Monday, February 4-2009]
FOOD bills have been
pushed up by £186 a year as a result of
the EU's disastrous fisheries policy, a
report claims to day.
It says that the
Common Fisheries policy which handed
Britain's historic fishing rights to
other member states, has cost the UK
£2.81 BILLION -A
YEAR
in terms of lost
sales, jobs, tax revenue and dumped
fish.
The claims were backed
by David Bellamy, the TV botanist and
environmental campaigner, who offered a
scathing assessment of the impact of the
25-year-0ld policy.
He said the COMMON
FISHERIES POLICY has DESTROYED 97,000 UK
jobs and forced fishermen to dump
880,000 tons of dead fish into the North
Sea because it is illegal to land them.
Professor Bellamy, who
has written a foreword to the report,
which was commissioned by the TaxPayers'
Alliance and Global Vision, said:
'We are [paying
billions for a policy that had done huge
ecological harm and is pushing cod on to
the endangered list. We must put a stop
to this man-made catastrophe.'
Dr Lee Rotherham,
of the Taxpayers' Alliance, added:
'Food costs more in
the shops, tens of thousands have lost
their jobs and millions of fish are
being killed.
THIS SCANDAL MUST
STOP.
[But like so very
much in the EU there is very little that
can be done about the matter. ONLY
when the EU is disbanded WILL SENSE
RETURN]
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A FURTHER 200 REASONS WHY TO REJECT THE
EURO AND THE EU
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FEBRUARY-2009
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