Congratulations to a group of MPs from all three main parties who managed to force a Commons debate on the Common Fisheries Policy. The highly meaningful policy of withdrawal from the CFP was proposed by David Davis while he was standing for the Conservative Party Leadership, but it was duly ignored by the Blairite and/or toffish media in preference for the toffish Heir to Blair's meaningless blather about where and with whom Conservative MEPs would be sitting.
Every year for 18 years, Labour, the Lib Dems and the latter's predecessors voted unanimously against the CFP on the floor of the Commons, joined in the very last days of the Major Government by the tiniest handful of Tories. Perhaps it is time to for Ed Miliband to seek to restore those annual votes? Then again, the media are determined not to report the fact that there are now even fewer Eurosceptical Tory MPs than there were in the Major years, and there were barely any even then.
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