They may well be, but if decision making bodies are over-regulating, that’s a matter of significant concern to us. The EU wants to ban Asulox, for example, which is very important in the control of bracken on the hills. And we’ve had an annual exemption from what they want to do for the last six years. We’ll be able to decide for ourselves whether that’s a sensible policy or not, which it isn’t. The EU may want to get rid of glyphosate as a weed killer, which we buy in supermarkets as Roundup. This is not a sensible decision, but we’ll be able to take that decision in future rather than unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Farmers have enormous problems with cross-compliance because, at the minute, they have to dot every i and cross every t of the complicated regulations that the EU imposes upon us, and we’ll be able to go through the whole gamut of such regulations for ourselves to decide which of those we want to keep, which are excessive and which we can dispense with altogether. So, all in all, bringing decisions down to the lowest sensible level is, I think, a vitally important and valuable thing for us to be able to do.

The other parts of our motion, which refer to other areas of that kind, unrelated to the EU—for example, consultation on the closure of rural schools or decisions about the siting of windfarms, for example—are vitally important, I think, in terms of maintaining the purity and integrity of our wonderful landscapes in mid Wales. I don’t like to see forests of windmills popping up on the hilltops and, of course, they’re deeply unpopular in the communities that have them plonked upon them. We don’t have to get into arguments about climate change and man-made global warming in order to advance this argument, because even if you accept the theories of man-made global warming, it must be obvious that the contribution that can be made to the solution of problems of climate change by having an extreme view of siting windfarms in inappropriate places—it makes no real contribution to the solution of the problem at all. But people’s lives are wrecked, and if we had some local means of control, then we would be able to block such decisions. So, it’s vitally important to us that we take proper cognisance of the special problems that exist in areas where we have sparse populations and difficult transport links, and we have the constitutional means of addressing them in the most efficient way. I believe that leaving the EU contributes to that process, although it’s not the be-all and end-all of the entire thing.

If we take fishing, for example—again, very important to us—Mid and West Wales has probably about 75 per cent of the coastline of Wales. The common fisheries policy has absolutely devastated the fishing industry in the whole United Kingdom. It’s been an ecological disaster as well, as we all know, with the policy of discards.