> UK was lucky to retain its currency independence. it wasn't luck, it was years of politicians and the population ignoring EU Commission funded pressure group

> UK was lucky to retain its currency independence. it wasn't luck, it was years of politicians and the population ignoring EU Commission funded pressure groups saying "all your financial services will move, all your business will move, Britain will be poorer" sound familiar? our politicians may be incompetent, but they weren't incompetent enough to join the Euro