EU budget ‘deal’ [farce]
So, our transport system is in disarray yet we are now going to be paying for a new underground in Warsaw, some areas are so short of water that they now have ‘pressured’ status and charge home users by their use, yet we are now going to be paying for new sewers in Budapest. I challenge anyone to write an accurate description of Tony Blair without using the words poodle, liar and weasel. It would seem fair to suggest that Britain would only give up its rebate if France gives up its own rebate known as the CAP. The response is better left to Mark in Mexico to describe
Chirac, knowing that enraged French farmers, 131,000 of whom receive some 20,000 euros annually in subsidies, would have his head on a pike if he were to agree, disagrees. In fact, Chirac says France will not consider any reduction whatsoever in its farm subsidies in spite of the fact that Britain has offered to forego 1.1 billion euros, or more than a third of its rebate. The EU, in keeping with its forward looking while marching backwards strategy, spends 40% of its total budget on farm subsidies which benefit 5% of its population. Imagine that; 40% of the budget to 5% of the population.