Comment by graemep

> Remember a famous speech in Parliament in which she said that the single currency was political union by the backdoor. Exactly right.

I do not think it was much of a backdoor. Anyone who looked at it could see where it should lead.

1. Further political integration was expected at the time of currency union 2. A currency union requires some amount of fiscal union to be stable so its idiotic to have one without the other

> Now there were claims that the EU would not evolve into a federal state, and this aligns with what I wrote about EU political integration being insiduous and often deceiptful

I think part of the problem is that people do not understand how the EU works. A lot of people have a very poor understanding of how their national political system works.