WINNING a war usually involves many battles but each victory, however small, makes a difference towards the eventual outcome.
Such a small victory was scored by Ukip in Strasbourg in our fight for freedom during the parliamentary session there last week. When it comes to voting Ukip rarely wins, which is not surprising as we are anti-EU and its interfering fingers in our national pie.
But an important paragraph of a report, entitled “On a resource-efficient Europe” which calls for total EU control of land, water, carbon footprint, material footprint, etc, in the interests of “sustainable development”, was the subject of a separate vote from the main report.
This paragraph reads “urges the Commission also to calculate and disclose the costs of the environmental damage arising as a consequence of the EU’s agriculture and fisheries policies”.
A very sensible move which Ukip voted for and was carried by 312 in favour, 287 against and 12 abstentions.
Readers may be interested to know that the Conservatives voted against holding the Commission to account for the eco-vandalism of their expensive policies. The same Tories who spout one thing over here but vote differently over there.
Our success reminds me of the fisheries vote we won late last year, preventing a subsidy of 38 million euros to the Moroccan government for EU permission to fish in their waters – which would do to their fish stocks what have been done to Britain’s.
As I say, small battles in the overall war, but gratifying nonetheless as we continue marching to eventual victory.
