Blair's Government finally attacks Common Agricultural Policy's Morality

Abandoning his own hypocrisy of many years standing, Tony Blair yesterday attacked the subsidising of the wealthy world's farmers at the expense of the third world's long-suffering and starving poor. A report appears in today's Daily Telegraph which is linked from here. The following are brief quotes: Hilary Benn, the International Development Secretary, said the rich world had a "moral imperative" to achieve trade justice. He called for an end to EU and non-EU agricultural subsidies in which rich nations give their farmers £154 billion a year - 10 times the amount given in aid to Africa..... Mr Blair surprised MPs by declaring publicly that it was his ambition "to get rid of" the Common Agricultural Policy". The question now looms large - what next? For once - with the concurrent six month Presidencies of the Group of Eight and what has become an obscenely constructed European Union due to commenc tomorrow a British Prime Minister and Parliament has a practically unique opportunity to re-shape the world. Will they seize this chance to restore some self-respect to the tarnished and tawdry institution that British governance has become, by effecting change to irrevocably re-address the balance between the world's rich and poor?