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It doesn’t work like that. The countries that joined the Euro and which had gained massively from the sale of their goods and services to Greece as a result, largely Germany and France, met the tab. This was the painful but accepted ending, the price paid was austerity in Greece etc. The UK...

The collapse in the Labour vote is astonishing, after 9 years of austerity, they should be trouncing all and sundry as they prepare for government. Alastair Campbell was brilliant this morning “Corbyn and his close advisors are pretending to be Remainers to remain voters, Brexiteers to Brexit...

I think the UK will always keep the pound. We could’ve replaced it for the Euro once Brown’s (who was in favour) economic tests were met, but thank **** they weren’t in time for the collapse of those economies. That lesson in history will never be forgotten.

So lucky we didn’t, everyone seems in agreement on that. Bankrolling the 2008 fiscal collapses in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain etc. Sweden and Denmark got lucky with that as well.