So what if on our merry way we get heckled by a few local, erm, imbibers?
Back in 1979, Europe launched what was called the Exchange Rate Mechanism, or ERM.
This would exclude Britain and Spain because at present they have extra wide ERM margins of 6%.
Michael: Erm the youngest is erm, erm, erm, five and the eldest is, is, the oldest is, is 11.
Sir Alan also quit and under John Major, the new chancellor, the UK joined the ERM in October 1990.
The UK crashed out of the ERM on Black Wednesday, 16 September 1992.
It was the night the pound was forced out of the ERM by its plunging value in the currency markets.
Other currencies across the ERM suffered as much or more, with Ireland and Portugal among the countries devaluing their currencies.
One problem though, it's powered by lithium ion batteries, which have a potential to, erm, explode (if built by Sony, anyway).
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Unfortunately, most companies do not have a value-based ERM program in place.
These three capabilities are present at companies implementing a value-based ERM program.
Having been opposed to the Conservative government's decision to join the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM), he had to deal with "Black Wednesday".
Which accounts for, erm, almost everyone in China, a sizeable proportion of the population of India, and everyone in Spanish-speaking and Russian-speaking countries.
Now I'm too young to remember Britain coming off the gold standard or even the devaluation of 1967, but I do remember the ERM crisis.
However, we could not join the euro at anything like this rate - remember what happened when we joined the ERM at the wrong rate?
Which is, erm, exactly what we would expect of something inelastic.
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The First Minister said he would, but the rate would have to be at the right level, citing the pounds early exit from the ERM in 1992.
Consequently, squeezed out of buying media the legal way, consumers have found themselves drawn to the, erm, grayer end of the market to sate their entertainment needs.
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We should have adjusted our exchange rate within the ERM to a more realistic one, just as every other country entering the project had done when necessary.
Even so, it is likely to draw the same lesson from this crisis as it did from the ERM expulsion in 1992: that devaluation is a good thing.
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Think of the UK's own ERM crisis: the game was up when Norman Lamont raised interest rates to 15%to defend the currency peg, in the middle of the recession.
The stronger aspirants, Poland and the Czech Republic, have distanced themselves from calls by troubled Hungary (like Latvia, an IMF supplicant) to shorten the qualifying period in ERM-2 from two years.
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The corresponding gains in the German currency forced a number of ERM central banks to intervene to support their currencies in turn, to make sure the pre-set bands were not violated.
Poland, for its part, failed to qualify because of doubts that it could control its budget deficit and worries that it owed its low inflation to the rise in the zloty (which was not in ERM-2).
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While it was possible - just - for the Conservatives to admit defeat in 1992 and leave the ERM, it has become impossible for European and US politicians to defend anything other than the brittle front line of globalisation.
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