ML-Implode News - Why UK landed gentry are so desperate to stayÂ in the EU

Farms are not called "uneconomic" in the same way that pits and factories are. So every British household coughs up about Â£250 a year and hands it over to the EU, which hands it over to people like the Duke of Westminster -- already worth Â£7bn himself. In 2011, the duke received Â£748,716 in EU subsidies for his various estates. So, too, Saudi Prince Bandar (he of the dodgy al-Yamamah arms deal), who pocketed Â£273,905 of EU money for his estate in Oxfordshire. The common agricultural policy is socialism for the rich. It's a mechanism to buttress the aristocracy -- who own a third of the land in this country -- from the chill winds of economic liberalism.
On Thursday, following Eurostat figures that showed Greece had attained a better-than-anticipated primary budget surplus last year, the leftist leader dug in his heels. What the country required was debt relief, not new austerity measures, he insisted. "Greece, which has a primary surplus of 0.7%, does not need extra measures. What Greece needs is an essential debt relief," Tsipras told Euronews. "We must move forward and finally overcome this crisis."

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Why UK landed gentry are so desperate to stayÂ in the EU