Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir is, before there was a Euro there
were lots of different types of money that different people used. And
now there's only one type of money that
the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from
one state of affairs to the other state of affairs"
Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start?"
Baldrick: "Yes Sir"
Blackadder: "We...ll, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were
many different countries all running their own finances and using
different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of
France, Belgium,Holland and Germany, and on the other, the weaker
nations of Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal. They got together
and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all
use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club
where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a
situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars
and crises".
Baldrick: "But this is sort of a crisis, isn't it Sir?".
Blackadder: "That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan".
Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir?"
Blackadder: "It was bollocks".