from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Single Currency "So the Pound Can Kiss the Euro's Butt" More Third Way from sumo wrestler Tony Blair. TONY BLAIR has pledged to fight for Britain's entry into the single European currency, according to a new Downing Street leak. In the third memo to be leaked in a fortnight, the Prime Minister indicates that he and his aides have made up their mind about the political case for scrapping the pound. The Prime Minister writes: "On the euro we need to be firmer, more certain, clearer. The truth is the politics is overwhelmingly in favour: but the ecomomics has to be right; and at present it is not. It would be far better to be open and up front." But in another document, leaked to The Times and Sun with the memo, Mr Blair's official pollster Philip Gould warns him that Labour's support for the euro could cost the Government the next election. In a nine-page letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Gould says that the single currency is a "life preserver" for the Tories which will make them "relevant and more electable". Mr Gould warns the Prime Minister not to brand William Hague as "extreme" on Europe. He also advises that Mr Blair's position on the single currency "may well energise the Tories and provide them with a credible position in the upcoming elections and a vehicle for eroding Labour support". The Gould document adds: "The great obstacle to building a sustainable majority for the euro is the fundamental divide that runs through the country on Europe. Opponents of the euro can get major traction by emphasising the threat to sovereignty and British control of its own future. "When asked about the best reasons not to join the euro, sentiment concentrates on sovereignty and control. If Labour attempts to marginalise the Tories by attacking their position as extreme - in effect, a brand of Thatcherism that is hostile to Europe - Labour loses the argument. "Labour talks about holding a referendum on joining the single currency after the next election, but, in fact, Labour has already decided to abolish the pound and substitute the euro. This is an irreversible course that will undermine Britain's sovereignty and commit Britain to joining a federal superstate of Europe." The fresh leaks, strategically timed to draw attention away from today's launch of the Government's plans for reforming the National Health Service, show that as long ago as last October it was taken for granted among Mr Blair's closest aides that Britain would join the euro. "The decision to join the European Single Currency at some future point raises significant challenges for the Labour Party in the upcoming election and in any future referendum," Mr Gould and Stanley Greenberg, who was senior pollster to President Clinton, say in the letter to Mr Blair. The leaked letter from the Prime Minister to his aides shows that Mr Blair is privately supportive of the publicly pro-euro stance adopted by Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson and Stephen Byers, although publicly he has played down the issue. In the memo, believed to have been written last December, he issues secret instructions to ministers to take on the Tories and be "firmer, more certain, clearer" on the euro. "We cannot avoid this debate on Europe," he writes in a document, Standing up for Britain. "Either we expose Tories' posturing for what it is - a defeat of our national interest in the name of our national interest - or we just look weak." Mr Blair says that "the truth is the politics is overwhelmingly in favour: but the economics has to be right and at present it is not. It would be better to be open and up front about this". The Prime Minister's private view appears at odds with his assurances to foreign investors in Japan last week that the decision to joint the Euro "would not be political." The leaked memos will be seized upon by Mr Hague as evidence that the Government is pursuing a secret agenda over Europe. They are certain to be included in a inquiry which is being conducted by Sir Richard Wilson, the Cabinet Secretary, into a series of leaks from confidential Downing Street documents. The London Telegraph, July 27, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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