FRENCH and German farmers are to gain more than British beef producers under an extra £52 million package of aid proposed by the EC.
As John Redwood, the Tory Euro-sceptic said: "I find it staggering that France and Germany are getting a large sum in compensation when they have been claiming to have a much smaller market than we do."
The EC has done nothing for Britain. It's time a referendum was held to decide whether we should come out and prosper like Norway, or stay in and be ripped off even more than we are now.
D Pearson, Rawstorne St, Blackburn
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