Is it time for the UK to join the euro?

[Sarmatian]

Oh, I am taking the piss, Sarmatian.

Come on, I base a dramatic and emotional pro-integration plea on poor IA's father who's starving to death because mean tabloid-wielding xenophobes don't want to be in a monetary union with Greece, only to be followed not two posts later by me revealing myself to be a dastardly xenophobe moaning that I don't want to be in a union with strange and foreign countries like Greece. It was funny, no?

Well, when you put it like that, yes. Not really funny, but interesting. You need to hone your witticism. I guess you've spent too much time watching German films or reading German literature, switch to British for a couple of months

A Serbian wants a union with his fellow orthodox countries Bulgaria and Greece, plus western Europe. The Poles dream of Ukraine and Belorus. But from where I'm sitting, Bulgaria is Mars. Ukraine the Kuiper belt. From where a Briton is sitting, Marseille and Naples are already North Africa. Erm...for me as well but let's for the sake of argument pretend they aren't.

Yeah, because they all live in a dream that we'll get rich the moment we become EU members and others will stop looking down on us. Poor beggars, they don't know what they're getting into.

I see what you mean. So, you must have protested when a certain guy of Berber/Algerian roots born in Marseille played for Bordeaux and France?

You too, Sarmatian. Do you want a union with Syria? With Libya? They are as close to you as Ireland is. Yet I presume you don't. Which means that you, as well as I, have a mental and political line beyond which we think that there is just too much different history and different customs.

Are you kidding? Of course! Serbs are held in very high regard in Syria because of our involvement in non-aligned movement

Reject union with Ireland? To pass on an opportunity to be in an union with the country where Tribesy is from??? Not a chance!