Is it not getting clearer by the day that there's only one solution to the Eurozone's Greek, Irish, Portuguese and Spanish problem? Let the Eurozone move to full political,economic and monetary union as Euroland now, with a president and legislature elected direct by universal adult suffrage; with Euroland-wide standardised pensions, social security and welfare entitlements, and with all member-states' debts converted to Euroland debts.
SInce it has been the efforts of France and Germany to create a fake version of such a union, in which they fondly imagined they would actually be the real powers behind the scenes pulling all our levers, is it not now poetic justice that possibly the only way they can save their fake union from ending in humiliating and total shambles is to move to a genuine union which they really are unable to control but the bills for which their nationals will still have to pick up.
Meanwhile those like us who never bought the idea of ever closer union can stay happily outside Euroland but hang on to our existing treaty benefits as long as it suits us to do so. Why should we care if the Eurozone is driven down that road? We should celebrate their being hoist by their own petard.
And if their answer to this idea is that it's bollocks to think that this kind of union is wanted by any Eurozone country or could be achieved, well quite, so why have you all been talking that bollocks for the last 50 years or so, and will you now please stop.
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