Dalia
Grybauskaite, a Moscow-educated Lithuanian who is
Commission for the
EU BUDGET
told the
Irish Times
"
In reality our CAP today is a more protectionist policy than a market-orientated
policy and because of this we pay, all of us, all consumers, two to three times
more for the food than we would pay without this policy".
Ms
Grybauskaite will present a formal Commission
proposal outlining her plans to reform the EU BUDGET
in 2009.
She said the CAP
presented "real issues" in terms of
FAIRNESS-QUALITY and SIZE
and that it
was only EU policy to fail a series of academic
studies recently commissioned by her department to
determine whether it produced added value for the
citizen.
"Agricultural output or input
represents about 5-7 per cent in each member state
and we pay about 40% out of the EU BUDGET, Is it
proportional"
she
asked.
[Well the
deals were done between Germany and France at the
commencement of the formation of the EEC and that
included the CAP deal for FRANCE and a commitment by
France to support Germany wherever it might lead.
It is again simply a MATTER of HISTORY -it was the
price for Germany to pay in order to get the French
a mainly agricultural country to agree to
become as one with Germany on foreign policy and
much else. That is WHY with all the promises given
by such like as Tony Blair when he gave back
to the EU the £7 BILLION BUDGET REBATE fought for so
hard by Mrs Thatcher who threatened to pass a bill
through Parliament should the deal not be done. It
was no idle threat as a bill was indeed put into the
system which made her words her bond and a deal was
completed. Why oh! WHY oh! WHY has no government since
HER TIME had the courage and drive to do likewise
-they would have saved our Fishing Fleets and our
Farmers. Though Bliar stood by his promise,
the French reneged on theirs. In England the
greatest landowners have been gathering their
greatest harvest of hundreds of thousands of pounds
a year- for NOTHING. It is the same with those
large landowners in the original member states
whether -POLITICIANS-MONARCHY- and many others in
places of power who benefit simply because they are
large landowners. The small farmer has never HAD IT
SO BAD.]
Ms
Grybauskaite, a former minister of FINANCE in the
Lithuanian government, critisised the fact that most
CAP payments went to large landowners or businesses
rather than small farmers, and said it was unfair
that the twelve most recent members of the EU had to
co-finance some payments to farmers while the EU
'15' benefited from direct EU payments.
[Who are the
main beneficiaries of CAP? They are those with
the most influence in the political arena - the rich
landowners in the EU 15 whether they are
politicians -academics
-businesses or monarchies or whoever. We wonder
was it a pay-back for their support of the EU.
It is quite a coincidence that those who had the
greatest leverage of power are benefiting the most?
Or is it!]
An average British family of four
are reckoned to spend £100-120 a week on food,
according to
MySupermarket,
a website that monitors prices at the supermarket
check-outs. If the EU Budget Commissioner's estimate
of the impact of CAP is correct the saving resulting
from the abolition of the CAP would be between
£40 and £60
a week,
a HUGE SAVING for every FAMILY IN
THE LAND
[It is as well to realise that the
CFP -Common Fisheries Policy also destroyed our
fishing industry and decimated of fishing fleets and
handed over our once abundant fishing fields
to others at the increased scarcity and cost to
everyone. We have the Arch-traitor
Edward Heath to
thank for that an unnecessary give-away when
negotiating our entry into the EEC as it was known
then. He was a Nazi Agent within a spy ring in
Balliol College Oxford in 1938 and remained so
until his death in 2005 In 2003 he had a embolism
when told by his
controllers in Austria that the British knew all
about his treachery. He died in 2005 from his
illness and was accorded a memorial service in
Salisbury
Cathedral opposite his home. He left
£5,000,000. Members of the German
Secret Service BND
were there to see him off.]
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