EU fishing for cash

You can be 100 per cent certain that Brussels is livid with rage that Britain is leaving the EU. They would have us foolishly believe we got it all wrong!

It is not that they desperately crave the UK back, rather the haunting and incredulous thought of not seeing, ever again, mega billions of pounds crossing the English Channel, to help finance their EU mega super-state dream.

A great deal of hypocrisy was revealed in recent days when European Council President, Donald Tusk sent out the EU’S

draft negotiating guidelines for the talks on the future trading relationship with the UK. The text proposes zero tariffs on goods but rejects the Prime Minister’s proposals for mutual recognition in Financial Services.

The EU has a trade surplus with the UK in goods, but a trade deficit with the UK in services. It is clear EU negotiators do not see any problem in “cherry-picking” when the fruit is on their side of the fence!

Also in the EU draft text is their demand to keep EU access to British fishing waters. This is outrageous, to say the least. Bringing back control of our fisheries was a key issue in the EU referendum campaign. Our fishing communities have long suffered under the EU’S Common Fisheries Policy. It would be a monumental betrayal to accept this demand.

While Eurocrats screech and squeal, claiming the UK is disregarding phase one of the EU Withdrawal Agreement signed in December, it is they who are obnoxiously guilty of just such an act!

How true the words of the last USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, who said: “The EU is nothing but the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes!”

Deal, or no deal, the UK must come off the Brussels gravytrain, and leave the EU, at 11pm on 29 March 2019, never to go back.

DONALD J MORRISON

Old Edinburgh Road, Inverness .