"I was in the Treasury when we were in the Exchange Rate mechanism, and I said to myself: “Never again should we give up control of our domestic interest rates.” If I am Prime Minister and for as long as I would be Prime Minister, I would never take Britain into the euro, full stop, end of story. We should never have got ourselves into the financial mess that we are in but at least we have the flexibility of our own currency and our own interest rates."That should give the anti-EU ultras within his own party a nice warm glow and possibly help to re-polish his own Euro-sceptic credentials, which have lost a bit of their lustre post the Lisbon fiasco. But it's not that brave a statement really is it?
First of all, it won't be solely a Prime-Minster's decision whether or not to join -the UK won't be adopting the Euro without a referendum, a referendum which if held at this present moment in time would be surely lost. Cameron is thus merely reflecting public opinion. But more relevantly, the *Euro-Consensus* is not pressurising the UK to join the Euro.
So, basically, unlike Lisbon, he can give it the big'un with impunity.
And just as an after-thought; apparently if it's in the *state's* (ie the present governing party's)interest then there is no problem whatsoever with consulting with the public on the topic of constitutional change.
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