The red Kipper flies at midnight!*

[Pannonian]

I refer primarily to the fact that we are a net contributor to the CAP, and France is not, and that the CFP allows the Spanish (who have fished out their own waters) to take our Cod, which endangers my Cod and Chips.

I'm sure there are other examples.

From what I can find, the old Common Fisheries Policy was recognised as being problematic, and research and debate went into how it should be reformed, and reforms are due to begin this year. So what's the problem? That things weren't perfect from the start?

As for net contribution to the CAP, according to this, in terms of overall budgets, as of 2011 we contributed less net (5.5bn) than Germany (9.0bn), France (6.4bn) and even Italy (5.9bn), while Poland, one of those whom we backed for accession into the EU, was the biggest net recipient (10.9bn). Would I be happier if we contributed less net? Yes I would, but I also recognise that many of the net recipients are in the EU as a result of British politicking. We've done our bit in contributing towards this situation, and judging from your stance on Ukraine, you'd be up for further expansion towards the east, which would result in yet another net recipient being added to the pool which we have to pay for.