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This is the simplest - and probably the most sensible - explanation, about the EU and the Euro ever to see the light of day.
Baldrick: 'What I want to know, sir, is before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. Now what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs?'
Blackadder: 'Baldrick did you mean how did the Euro start?'
Baldrick: 'Yes sir.'
Blackadder: 'Well you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running there own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany and on the other, the weaker natons of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together and decided it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one central bank and belong to one small club where everyone could be happy. That meant there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises.'
Baldrick: 'But this is a sort of crisis, isn't it sir?'
Blackadder: 'That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one sight flaw with the plan'.
Baldrick: What was that then sir?
Blackadder: 'It was bollocks'.
Apologies for the sweary bit at the end - it just seems so very right!