9 Quotes filtered by Euro (Single Currency)
There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.
John Redwood 05/2003
Category: Euro (Single Currency), European Constitution
It's not a case of joining the Euro: it's abolishing the pound.
John Redwood 1995
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Wong in principle, wrong in practice.
Jacques Arnold 1997
On the euro
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
A single European currency was first proposed by the Nazi Reichsbank to Hitler at the time of Dunkirk. Now it is EU policy.
Sir Peter Tapsell 2001
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.
Margaret Thatcher 10/1990
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
It is not clear which impending catastrophe will be worse: the collapse of the euro or the transformation of the European Union into an economic equivalent of the former Soviet Union.
Wilhelm Hankel
Category: European Union , Euro (Single Currency)
Is it really necessary for Mr Brown to ask the British people, even in principle, to slash their throats a second time?
Sir Peter Tapsell 09/06/2003
A reference to Gordon Brown's Euro announcement. Tapsell voted against joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in 1990.
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Blair goes one way, Brown goes the other way and bang goes the third way.
Michael Howard 09/06/2003
After Gordon Brown's announcement to delay a Euro referendum
Category: Euro (Single Currency), Third Way
For six years, support in principle from the chancellor has been talk and no trousers.
Matthew Taylor MP 09/06/2003
On Gordon's Brown decision to postpone a Euro referendum
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
