Now if Britain who has to work within the EU can make progress on discards why is "our" government and I use the term loosely cannot act in a similar way and stop the practice?
And where is the identity here who could lead such a fight? after all there are those who for years have made money from promoting and selling our recreational fishery.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/20/campaigners-eu-fish-discards-victory?newsfeed=true
Or are they also too worried about the effect on them about growing some balls to do something about it? After all one had his prime time programme more as a lets promote commercial fishing and gloss over what is really our clean green image just so he could sell his programme to US cable networks.