UK: South West MEP presses Gordon Brown to scrap the pound
Democracy Movement >> Originally Published 27th March 2009
The South West’s only Liberal Democrat MEP, Graham Watson, seems to be on a quest for maximum unpopularity.
And on current form he might just end up taking the whole Lib Dem campaign for the European Parliament elections down with him.
During the Prime Minister’s visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week – on the first leg of his pre-G20 ‘world tour’ – Watson used his regulation three minutes speaking time to press Gordon Brown to take Britain into the euro.
Responding to Gordon Brown’s address to MEPs, Watson said that he expected the single currency to “emerge stronger from this crisis” and asked the Prime Minister “Will you now work to bring the United Kingdom into the euro in the post-recession period?”