Talking about what to talk about

A BRITISH MEP who recently joined the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee, felt obliged to intervene during a meeting on 20 March, after the Committee “had spent 45 minutes debating about what to debate.”

Stuart Agnew, the UKIP MEP, was incredibly frustrated by the lack of focus, stating: “This meeting has now been going on for 45 minutes. We have reached agenda item 9. We have postponed decisions on all the agenda items. I haven’t been a member of this committee for very long but I have lived on the coast of Britain or close to it for most of my life and I have watched the devastation of the fishing industry there. I come to this committee where decisions are made and I’m beginning to see why things are going wrong.”