[pjc50]

The idea that the UK might somehow abolish VAT on leaving the EU sounds like wishful thinking to me. Where's the money for that hole in the budget going to come from?

The CFP is a mess, but without something to replace it I suspect fish stocks would simply have been extracted below replacement level.

[hkt]

CFP would have been well loved if it had been set up in such a way as to designate quotas to small fishers etc. As it stands most of the quotas are owned by a few huge players. That's the real reason why there's so much consternation among fishers - because of the people who have accrued fishing rights to squeeze out small producers.

[pjc50]

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/five-wealth... ? Does the cfp mandate that quota be tradeable?