Isolation is Not Such a Bad Thing

I regret to say that I really don't care what happens to the Euro. It was always a currency without a country; it was always unpopular with ordinary Europeans, who saw it - quite rightly in my view - as a threat to their national identity, and it was always designed to create a 'federal' state out of countries so disparate in nature and temperament as to make such a design an impractical and unattainable dream.

Neither do I regret that David Cameron's actions have 'isolated' the UK - if, indeed, they have done so in the long or the short term. Britain has been 'isolated' on many occasions, and she can stand being isolated again - particularly if, in her isolation, she can avoid losing her sovereignty or falling victim to the fell hand of Standard & Poor's. Better to go into isolation than to get into bed with Typhoid Mary.

I do, though, very much regret the very real anger and antagonism that ordinary people in northern Europe have begun to express against other, much poorer, southern Eurozone countries, whose debts they now feel that they will be obliged to pay. That is an understandable attitude - but it is not a healthy one, and it is not one I would want to see expressed in the same way in the UK.

Isolation is really not such a bad thing...