I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
If you want to get a sober analysis of a Commission’s proposal, spend some time and read the Regulatory Scrutiny Board‘s opinion(s) on it. If you want to read them, you need to head over here to the register of documents and run a search. The opinion(s) are published when the legislative proposal is … Read more
Years ago, I learned my most valuable lobbying technique: tell the right story to the right person in terms of their values. If you want to persuade anyone, you need to look at the issue from their perspective. You need to walk in their shoes. And when you have done that, you can put forward … Read more
In 1997, I learned that a race known as ‘Anglo-Saxons’ were alive, and they were not to be trusted. I was meeting some officials in DG Fisheries (as it then was) for WWF, asking why the EU was giving so many subsidies to large distant water fishing vessels. They stopped that practice. The meeting had … Read more
The most effective way to get what you want to be taken up is to tell a story. You can get everything else right, great evidence, solutions, position papers, submissions, a great campaign team, and superb execution, but if your story does not convince and persuade the audience of decision-makers whose support you need, your … Read more