Time to leave eurozone and seek new trading partners

SARKOZY and Merkel are acting undemocratically as they try to hoist their own agendas on member states. Regardless of our current crisis, I don’t remember electing them to act on my behalf, nor would I ever wish them to.

I love my country with a passion and it grieves my heart to listen to Michael Noonan say that France and Germany would ultimately have a right to decide how Ireland would manage its budgetary and fiscal policy.

Should this Franco-German pact become a reality, monetary union is what lies beneath German intentions. It has been since its reunification with East Germany when it replaced the mark and based its whole economic structure on the euro. It has to have control of the whole show at all costs. Just think about that for a second — it makes me shiver.

The question that this Government has to answer is why we are even thinking of going along with recreating a failed paradigm, which needs unbearable financial support and cost, brings massive social implications, stunted growth and serves us with no real tangible benefit. Collectively, we could compete better in bond markets against the US, but that’s not the answer. What we need is warrior leadership from now on. The founding principles of making a common market of free trade, movement of labour and a common solidarity amongst the peoples of Europe is now gone. It is us who are bailing out France and Germany.

We must ask our own leaders to instigate an orderly withdrawal. If we are to believe the rhetoric of how great we are, then let’s explore other trading partners and go down in history for something good for a change and leave the eurozone.

Garry Walsh

Ballinacarriga

Co Cork