http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-1813723 9

[brionon]

Pity this Expert didn't tell us about the impending crisis isn't it ?

[rojash]

Pity your link doesn't work isn't it?

[rojash]

Putting links in the Title doesn't work as titles are automatically converted to title case.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-politics-18137239

[jno]

why would the justice secretary warn us about what might happen in other countries? Hardly his job.

[ABerrant]

I presume the allusion is to Ken Clarke as a pro-EU, pro-Euro ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. If he had been holder of that Office when the Euro was floated Britain is unlikely to have retained Pound Sterling.

[jno]

conceivably; but as Britain had recently staggered out of the ERM, bleeding heavily, it's also conceivable that it would have.

[Johnysid]

Ken Clarke was one of the people who got us in to the ERM and cost us scores of billions in the messy exit. There is an account of why the Europeans won't solve the crisis in the way we would like at: http://pol-check.blog...s-to-be-going-on.html