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#1 Posted : 04 February 2013 20:30:14(UTC)
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When Booker and I started working together back in 1992, we spent a lot of time on agriculture and fishing, these being the victims of the two most fully-developed EU policies – and the most catastrophic.

Part of our reasoning was that these industries were the "canaries down the mine". What happened to them could be taken as an example and a warning of what was to happen to the rest of us.

What I certainly didn't bargain for, more than 20 years later, was how completely the two industries would disappear from the popular media, so much so that the depredations of the EU would seem like history, unattached to current reality, while contemporary hacks and politicians would know next to nothing of the background.

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#2 Posted : 04 February 2013 21:21:18(UTC)
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I can't believe for one minute that Cameron would frame government policy on the need to keep the Scottish people sweet prior to their independence referendum.
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#3 Posted : 05 February 2013 09:02:07(UTC)
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Fantastically well inform and interesting post which puts a new slant on the issues. An example of why I come to blogs for my information and stopped buying newspapers some years ago. Thank you
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#4 Posted : 05 February 2013 09:34:55(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Julian Williams Go to Quoted Post
Fantastically well inform and interesting post which puts a new slant on the issues. An example of why I come to blogs for my information and stopped buying newspapers some years ago. Thank you



BigGrin I've got some good contacts in the industry ... comes from working with them for decades. What actually goes on, and what the papers tell us are very often different things. With luck, Booker will be doing a piece on Sunday.

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#5 Posted : 05 February 2013 10:36:17(UTC)
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Julian Williams said
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Fantastically well inform and interesting post which puts a new slant on the issues. An example of why I come to blogs for my information and stopped buying newspapers some years ago. Thank you


I agree whole heartedly with that. It also explains why the price of mackerel has gone through the roof.
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#6 Posted : 05 February 2013 14:59:12(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: richard Go to Quoted Post
[quote=Julian Williams;9834] With luck, Booker will be doing a piece on Sunday.



I take it that's a reference to his issues with his friends at BT last week?
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