UK response to the Eurozone probs- why can't we do this?:

[pugwash4x4]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8...

seriously don't we have ANY politicians with enough balls to start to stand up for our country?

[mrmr96]

I'm not sure if 'balls' is the answer.

[WhoseGeneration]

pugwash4x4 said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8...

seriously don't we have ANY politicians with enough balls to start to stand up for our country?

As I have previously said, it's the Politics, not the Economics, that rule this situation.
This will not change until there is a new cohort of politicians, prepared to face reality, in the major countries of the EU.

[dcb]

pugwash4x4 said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8...

seriously don't we have ANY politicians with enough balls to start to stand up for our country?

Only Tory right wingers (Redwood and others) even
claim to do this, much less actually do it.

Personally, I never understood why we didn't make
more of EFTA, the European Free Trade Area.

Copying the Swiss, in keeping aloof from all this,
seems prudent now.

Mind you, a few chickens have come home to roost
from the debates about 15-20 years ago about the
UK having closer links with the continental economies ...

[powerstroke]

dcb said:

pugwash4x4 said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8...

seriously don't we have ANY politicians with enough balls to start to stand up for our country?

Only Tory right wingers (Redwood and others) even
claim to do this, much less actually do it.

Personally, I never understood why we didn't make
more of EFTA, the European Free Trade Area.

Copying the Swiss, in keeping aloof from all this,
seems prudent now.

Mind you, a few chickens have come home to roost
from the debates about 15-20 years ago about the
UK having closer links with the continental economies ...

stand up... to lose the next avalible place on the EU gravy train
you have got to be joking these self serving twunts wont vote for anything
that risks the chance of a huge expense account and junkets after they are washed up here, example Kinock and mrs kinock failed and useless now well paid and respected by the eu beurocrats

Edited by powerstroke on Thursday 21st July 22:40