Here’s a funny thing.

The European Union has all sorts of firm things to say – and enforce – about how we should live nicely to save the planet.

Think of all those permits off-shore oil companies need to do anything which might damage the oceanic environment. And the various Bathing Water Directives needed to keep our beaches clean. And the way Science is thrown in our faces on climate change, to make us do things we otherwise might not do

It’s therefore odd that when it comes to marine life, namely fish, the EU has a different approach:

Let disaster rip!

With subsidies, to speed it up! An example of a system that has come to symbolise the worst aspects of European governance.

Still, when the last fish from European seas has been lightly fried in oil and then guzzled somewhere in Spain, we’ll still have Chris Squire: