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Gay marriage law means 'there could be two Queens' on the throne
(The Sun, Politics)
BRITAIN could end up with TWO Queens on the throne if gay
marriage becomes law, an ! warnedlast night"
Tory !eter Bone claimed the new legislation would throw the
monarchy into crisis"
#e said it would mean a lesbian Queen ha$ing a Queen consort or
a gay %ing ha$ing a %ing consort"
r Bone has demanded an emergency summit of &ommonwealth
leaders to discuss the planned changes"
#e said' (They seem to be rushing this through without thin)ing
of the broader implications"(
The ! has fired off a letter to *+ualities inister ynne
-eatherstone warning of possible uphea$al inthe monarchy"
And he wants to )now if it is the .o$ernment/s plan to change
the Royal arriages Act of 0112 to allowa same3se4 union"
r Bone belie$es this would ma)e it impossible for the monarch to
continue as supreme go$ernor of the&hurch of *ngland"
And a gay monarch who concei$ed a child either by sperm donor or
surrogate would raise wider+uestions, he warns"
The donor would ha$e a right to a peerage and could gain regal
rights"
#e said' (I can/t belie$e that the .o$ernment has gone headlong
into this without it being in themanifesto or discussed by
&ommonwealth leaders"(
.ay and lesbian campaign group 5tonewall last night called his
letter (mischie$ous("
Greece on the breadline: 'potato movement' links shoppers and
farmers6world news7
A scheme letting consumers buy food straight from producers is
typical of the in$enti$e ways .ree)s arefinding to get by There/s
some dispute about where and when it all started, but &hristos
%amenides, genial
professor of agricultural mar)eting at the 8ni$ersity of
Thessaloni)i, is pretty confident he and his studentsha$e made sure
it/s not about to stop any time soon"
What/s sure is that the so3called potato mo$ement, through which
thousands of tonnes of potatoes and otheragricultural produce 9
including, hopefully, ne4t month, *aster lamb 9 are being sold
directly to consumers
by their producers, is ta)ing off across .reece "
(It/s because e$eryone benefits,( said %amenides, standing in a
clearing in the woods abo$e Thessaloni)i infront of one 2:3tonne
truc) of potatoes, another of onions, and smaller $ans of rice and
oli$es" (&onsumersgets good3+uality food for a third of the
price they would normally pay, and the producers get their
moneystraight away"(
As de$ised by %amenides and his students, it/s a simple system"
Their brainwa$e was to in$ol$e .reece/slocal municipalities,
lending the mo$ement a degree of both organisation and official
encouragement that itmight otherwise ha$e lac)ed"
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5o' a town hall announces a sale" ocals sign up for what they
want to buy" The town hall then tells%amenides the +uantity
re+uired and he and his students call local farmers to see who can
supply it" Theyshow up with the re+uisite amount of produce at the
appointed place and time, meet their consumers, and thedeal is
done"
The direct sales are immensely popular" One organised last month
by $olunteers in %aterini, south ofThessaloni)i, last month saw an
online offer of 2; tonnes of potatoes sell out within four days,
with :ust as high as it e$erwas" This is much cheaper, much less
than half price"(
Tsitsopoulou bought fi$e 2:)g bags of potatoes for her family
and her neighbours" (The other ad$antage,(
she said, (is that you can see the +uality and where the produce
comes from" With supermar)ets, you canne$er really be sure" It/s
>ust a brilliant system"(
The producers are e+ually delighted" Apostolos %asapis said the
principal benefit for him was that (I get paid straight away" The
profit is not $ery high, >ust a bit abo$e the production cost,
but I get the moneyimmediately, which in this crisis is $ery
important"(
%asapis said wholesale buyers sometimes ta)e (a year to pay
their suppliers" 5ometimes, they don/t pay atall" In my $illage
alone, the farmers are owed more than ?:==,===" 5o for us, what
satisfies us most with thissystem is that we ha$e regained our
power o$er the middlemen, who ha$e been s+uee@ing us and
profitingunfairly from e$eryone now for years"(
The potatoes generally fetch 2:3
