EU failure on Fisheries just the start.

The Sunday Times report, linked here, on the belated admission that the EU policy on fishing has been a complete failure and absolute disaster, made by the EU Commissioner responsible, should mark the beginning of similar admissions by every other EU Commissioner in every other area in which the EU operates and therefore, if we were completely honest, exploits. If the leaders of the EU member states truly wished to start putting their peoples interests first, and never have the economics been more demanding of just that, then all EU activities would be halted with the end of the present Commission and Parliament and a period of respite from the never-ending onslaught of petty regulation and interference could help in bringing forward the moment when Europe's diverse economies could be put to rights. The opening paragraphs of the Sunday Times article are as follows:

Europe’s fishing industry is on the brink of suicide and several species are in danger of extinction after 25 years of policy failure,the European Commission said yesterday.

Officials admitted five key failings in the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy as they prepared to tear up the idea of a centrally dictated strategy. They launched the search for an alternative, saying that much of the responsibility for fishing must be returned to EU member states.