New Statesman - <![CDATA[Roy Jenkins]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/roy_jenkins en <![CDATA[They really must stop dithering]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270014 http://www.newstatesman.com/199909270014 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:00:00 GMT Roy Jenkins Roy Jenkins urges Blair and Brown to start a pro-single currency campaign at once

The state of mind of many of our leading politicians on Europe reminds me of the old satirical quatrain about the 1809 Walcheren campaign:

Great Chatham with his sabre drawnStood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan;Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em,Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham

That was, and is, no way, to win a campaign - in 1809 or in 1999. Now the attentisme seems [...]

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