It's not often we agree with Ross Thomson, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
A leaked draft of the political declaration outlining the future relationship between Europe and the UK seems to offer up access to UK fishing waters for European vessels in return for a trade deal - and the arch-Brexiteer isnae happy.
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Thomson leapt to Twitter to slam the deal.
🐟The political declaration commits UK to "establish a new fisheries agreement on, inter allia, access to waters and quota shares". This means sovereignty over our waters sacrificed for a trade deal. That is unacceptable. We must be a normal Independent coastal state like Norway. pic.twitter.com/wRCzdSNahf
— Ross Thomson MP (@RossThomson_MP) 22 November 2018
Interesting choice of words from Thomson... An independent coastal state, is it?
Still, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Theresa May's government sees Scottish industries as expendable. We just wonder how Thomson didn't see it coming...
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