Last week the UK Conservative Group in the European Parliament jumped back into bed with their former allies, the conservative EPP.
The UK conservatives followed their group voting instructions and backed an amendment that would have had the EU taxpayer paying for new fishing boats to be built at taxpayers expenses.
In the end they were defeated. The UK’s Labour and Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish MEPs who have unusually close ties with their fishing industry voted to continue bankrolling their friends.
The Conservative Members backing the continued use of taxpayers cash to pay for bigger and better boats for privately run companies were:
Richard Ashworth MEP
Ashworth, Bielan, Cabrnoch, Callanan, Deva, Elles, Foster, Fox, Girling, Gróbarczyk, Hannan, Harbour, Kamall, Kami?ski, Karim, Kirkhope, Kowal, Kožušník, Legutko, McClarkin, McIntyre,, Nicholson, Stevenson,Sturdy, Swinburne, i, Tannock, , Van Orden, Yannakoudakis,
The UK Lab-Lib alliance against taxpayers paying for rich and privileged men to have new vessels paid by the taxpayer were: