2016-04-22theguardian.com

Farms are not called "uneconomic" in the same way that pits and factories are. So every British household coughs up about £250 a year and hands it over to the EU, which hands it over to people like the Duke of Westminster -- already worth £7bn himself. In 2011, the duke received £748,716 in EU subsidies for his various estates. So, too, Saudi Prince Bandar (he of the dodgy al-Yamamah arms deal), who pocketed £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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