PRESS UPDATE
 

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NOW ITS A FIGHT TO SAVE BRITAIN’S FISHING
Elliot Morley has been the best fisheries minister for decades.
Yet the fishing industry is now in its worst crisis.
The Common Fisheries Policy which Ted Heath forced us into is useless for conservation and MAFF has never spent the money other fisheries ministers gave their industries.
We should face Europe with the choice – Either mend or end the CFP.
We must invest in fishing to bridge the gap between proper conservation and its reward in better catches.
That means tie-up support and decommissioning. Fishing needs grants for new, more selective gear and less intensive fishing methods.
It needs an end to charges and a total ban on industrial fishing.
I’ve always supported Save Britain’s Fish. Now it’s a fight to save Britain’s fishing.
Otherwise, there will be sales of licences and quotas to European quota hoppers, whose industries have been subsidised.
From The Grimsby Evening Telegraph 2 June 2001

 

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A better Grimsby in a better Britain
“Labour’s made a good start at reversing the damage done by 18 Tory years.
More jobs and the New Deal to help young people. More money through the minimum wage and the working family tax credit.
Children get more and pensioners have had a much better deal.
More spending on education means smaller primary class sizes, and much better early years provision.
Standards are improving in our Grimsby schools.
The health service has also turned the corner. Waiting lists down and more treatments for more people.
None of this is as fast as we’d hoped. You can’t reverse 18 years of damage overnight. It’s been vital to show that Labour can run the economy better than the Tories.
Now you know Labour Government works.
So it’s time for a new mandate to go further, to tackle the transport problems the Tories left behind and to devote extra resources to the police working in closer relationship with the community to defeat crime.
My call in 2001 is for the mandate Labour needs to build a better Grimsby in a better Britain.
No other party can do it. It has to Labour.”
From Grimsby Evening Telegraph 17 May 2001