"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
It wasn't Gordon Brown who negotiated the opt-out in the Maastricht Treaty
that meant the UK could decide later whether or not to join the single
currency.


But it was John Major who took us into the ERM, and went to
ridiculously excessive lengths on Black Wednesday in a last ditch
attempt to keep us in it.

To state otherwise is rewriting history. That seems to be your forte.

It isn't mine, so further discussion would be pointless.