sally cinnamon wrote:
Not when he was leader of the Labour party he wasn't, he was calling for us to be in the ERM in the mid 1980s well before the Tories took us in.
That didn't stop Blair then saying the Tories had lost their economic credibility because of what happened to the ERM...
when Ted Heath
took us in the EEC in the early 70s (remember, WE voted for it democratically) Mr Kinnock was seen in the same light as Red Ken, Scargill, Red Robbo, Peter Shore and the like = extreme euro sceptics
Kinnock realised that it would be economic suicide to pull out of europe and so had to jump on the bandwagon, upsetting many of his contempories within the loony left/labour Party at the time - he had no choice but to accept the ERM in 1990 many years after his anti european stance
and correct, the Tores had lost their credibilty especially when senior Tories like the C of the Ex, Norman Lamont wasn't in favour...the crash was inevitable and it cost me a fookin' fortune !