WEIR TAKES CAMERON’S FISHING FLIP FLOP TO TASK

Angus MP Mike Weir has supported a motion by the Leader of the SNP, Alex Salmond MP, who has tabled a Parliamentary Motion taking the UK Tory leader to task for betraying fishing communities by reversing his party’s policy of withdrawing the UK from the Common Fisheries Policy.

News reports today confirm that he has dropped his party’s policy on withdrawal which the Tory party campaigned on at the last election.

Commenting Mr Weir said:

“Fishing and fish processing are important industries in Angus, and particularly in Arbroath. Only last year the Tories were electioneering claiming to stand up for Scotland’s fishermen, now they have done a complete about turn and dumped this important local industry”

“Only last week the Scottish Tories were offering an alliance with Labour but we now have them adopting their policies. The CFP has been a disaster for local  fishing communities and it is self-evident that the Tory party cannot be trusted to stand up for them.

“It Tory party in the 1970s which took the UK into the Common Fisheries Policy – a policy where one Government advisor  described the Scottish fishing fleet as ‘expendable’.

“Scotland’s fishing communities have been betrayed for decades by the anti-Scottish Tories and this latest volte-face just underscores how expendable it is to David Cameron.”