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alistairC on February 23, 2007 - 6:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Well, AndyT, you'd better hope the UK can make it on its own.

I agree with AndyH that the UK would be well-advised to join the eurozone. But with Brown, no chance of that (best hope, a Conservative government?) I predict that by the time the UK government gets around to begging to join the Euro, they will be turned down flat. They don't have a strong case for EC solidarity, given that ever since they joined, all governments have systematically worked to weaken and undermine European efforts at integration and solidarity.

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cynus on February 23, 2007 - 9:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Here comes the BNP.

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alistairC on February 23, 2007 - 10:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Banque National de Paris?

... Oh I suppose you mean British National Party. But I don't grasp your point?
Are you saying that no government will join the Euro because of thick-headed reactionary nationalism? Exactly, which is why I think they won't try till it's too late?.

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Alfred on February 23, 2007 - 12:42pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I think what cynus means is that they are waiting for the alternative political parties to be thoroughly discredited so that power falls into their laps - a bit like the Weimar Republic and Hitler.

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