“There is nothing inherently optimal,” they say, about a level playing field in international finance. Attempts to develop a single European financial market have, in their view, forced countries to respond to the failings revealed by the 2008 crisis at the speed of the “slowest ship in the convoy.”
委员会的成员也确实意识到伦敦失去全球金融中心地位对就业和产出来说损失很严重，所以他们还准备了第二套说辞。他们说：在平等的国际金融竞技场上，“没有什么是天生完美的”。在他们看来，试图建立一个单一的欧洲金融市场迫使各国以“船队中最慢的船”的速度来对2008年危机暴露的错误作出反应。