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Originally Posted by grannyclaret
maybe we should have joined the e.u. earlier..and then we would have had more clout.....
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As I recall, Granny, we joined just as soon as we were allowed to. The main reason we did not join earlier than we did was because De Galle did not want us in and did everything he could to veto our membership. Don't you just love the french? I would like to see them all drown in a pit of their own vomit!
To return to the matter in hand though, Wasn't it Blair the liar who has just come through a general election in which he promised the British Public that he would not sacrifice one penny of our rebate until the French agreed to cut what they take from the Common Agricultural Policy?
Not only has he betrayed all the people who were stupid enough to have voted for him, but has meekly agreed to allow France to keep their CAP payments with only the vaguest of agreements to review it in three years, thus handing Chirac a victory and on top of that has handed Europe an extra 10.7 Billion Euro's. All to bolster his "legacy".
Funny isn't it, quite a few European Agriculture Ministers were opposed to cutting what the French claim from the CAP and, oddly enough, most of those also happen to own farms in France.