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"They ignored our veto in 2011 on the Greece Euro zone crisis and went ahead with what they were going to do anyway"


That isn't strictly true. Cameron amended our veto when he renegotiated our deal.  Non-euro members such as the UK were  “not to impede the implementation of legal acts directly linked to the functioning of the euro area and shall refrain from measures which could jeopardise the attainment of the objectives of economic and monetary union”.

Indeed, the 2015 Conservative manifesto boasts: “We took Britain out of Eurozone bailouts, including for Greece – the first ever return of powers from Brussels.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/d...-eu-treaty - They ignored this though and went ahead and did what they wanted. Cameron mentioned this in the TV interview programme 'The Cameron Years'.

Only country we bailed out in the EU was Ireland. In 2010 when we were in the process of changing governments to the coalition and the Euro zone was in meltdown they asked Britain and Alistair Darling who was then the outgoing chancellor could Britain contribute to the bailout and Alistair Darling had to explain that he was the outgoing chancellor and couldn't do anything and spoke to George Osborne about this. What Alistair Darling did was give back the rebate to the EU to help them out. I remember the Euro zone crisis in 2010 because the EU were worried it was going to be the end of the EU because Italy, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal were all in financial trouble.