Where Greece goes now, UK will soon follow
Last week, the deficit on our Government’s annual spending widened yet again, to £143 billion. We cannot avoid a reckoning for ever, warns Christopher Booker.
By Christopher Booker 25 Jun 2011
At last the penny seems to be dropping that the chaos mounting over Greece’s problems with the euro is by far the most serious crisis that the great European “project” has ever faced.
As their sad, bewildered faces show whenever they appear on our screens, the EU’s leaders have nowhere to turn. They cannot afford to allow Greece to fall out of their beloved euro, which might trigger an international currency crisis, the consequences of which no one can calculate. On the other hand, they cannot afford to continue
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