Here’s more advice on whether the UK should join the Euro, this time from a former director of the Bundesbank (Germany’s old central bank). This, as Andrew Sullivan would say (I noticed this link on his site) is the ‘money quote’ (in this case quite literally so):

“The present euro zone structure is devastating for Germany…Our economy is bleeding. And I am convinced the UK would be crazy to join – you should stay out for as long as I can foresee.”