Douglas Carswell vainly trying to convince a Tory researcher in the mid-1990s that Britain shouldn't join the euro,gucci homme. That researcher is now a Cabinet minister and has, to be fair, changed his mind. (I have a pretty good notion of whom Douglas has in mind, because I was there during their altercation. Indeed, I had the same argument with the fellow dozens of times,Mulberry handbags.)
I mention this, not to say "I told you so" – - but in the hope that those who supported EMU in the 1990s might re-examine their prejudices. Although most of them have now stopped arguing that Britain should join the euro, they continue to apply the same mistaken thinking to the single currency as a whole, insisting that,Mulberry uk, since,Mulberry bags?a break-up of the euro would damage Britain, we should be prepared to bail it out. In truth, the opposite is the case. The euro is causing a great deal of preventable poverty in its peripheral member states: Greece,Mulberry outlet, Spain, Portugal and, most spectacularly, . Far from keeping these countries in the system, we should be . We surely have an interest, after all,ghd, in the solvency of our export markets.
I'm not asking for an apology from my old friend, nor from the others who drifted with bien pensant opinion during the Major years. I'm not calling for anyone to . I just want Euro-enthusiasts to consider why they were mistaken, and to apply that logic to our present circumstances.
Those who - the Huhnes and Cleggs, the Heseltines and Clarks, the Mandelsons and Hains – will no doubt still be deferred to by the BBC as impartial experts, while those of us who got it right will be wheeled out as pantomime Europhobes. I'm not complaining about any of this,ghd straighteners. But I would like my Europhile colleagues to look into their consciences, to ask themselves whether this is really about our economic interests, or whether it isn't about showing what thoroughly moderate,Louis Vuitton Sydney, cosmopolitan people they are. There's still time, my friends,ghd. Joy shall be in heaven, more over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance,Mulberry sale.
