Is Gord crazy enough to…

…join the Euro? Chris White at the EU Reporter suggests you "put money on it, but don't fix a date.".

"There is absolutely no solid evidence to suggest it but this publication predicts that by the end of the month of January Britain will have announced that it intends to join the euro."

Erm… well, as long as there's no solid evidence to suggest it.

White goes on to suggest that because the "Euro zone needs Britain," and since there's a special "Big 4" meeting of EU powers later this month in Britain, and because Alastair Darling has called for another meeting in Paris the day before, well — surely you can connect the dots.

Can't you?

White's closing argument:

Besides, you don’t have to be an economist to ask where are the European banks and the eurozone economy without the fifth largest economy in the world. It would certainly suit New Labour to see Tony Blair, recently converted to Catholicism, as the first president of the EU and right now the negotiating chips are all in Gordon Brown’s pocket.

Oh yeah, Westmonster forgot. Gordon Brown has heaps of negotiating chips right now. We'd love to write more, but we've got to head down to Ladbrokes to bet on Britain joining the Euro in the next 2 weeks. Sigh.

via Freedom and Whisky