The Pound (£) Vs. The Euro (E)?

Arrr right i get yeah! Cause of the strong pound?!

Also if we go in will the max we are allowed to import change (ie with out tax) -£18???

 

I'm not too sure to be honest - I missed that lecture and didn't bother swotting up on it for the exam

 

LOL, and I thought you were interested in it because of your politcal stance!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1739000/1739966.stm

a graph of the euro Vs. the dollar, down down deeper and down comes to mind

 

Monopoly money


http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1742000/1742098.stm


Some guy used monopoly euro money!!! and it worked!!!!! Kick in the teeth!

 

Although I voted to keep the pound, I really can see the public being swayed to vote for the Euro when the referendum comes about. There's a lot of interest for the the Euro amongst high profile groups who will set about thier brainwashing tactics in the next few months.

 

but we are strong,

we will live on

//jjf throws his sword in the air

FREEEEDOMMMM!

8 Vs. 3 were winning!

 

i think basically an average joe in the street would say keep the pound because that's what the majority of newspapers/tv (daily mail is a good example) tell us is right. BUT the reality of it is the U.K. cannot afford to stay out of the euro for much longer. many industries are looking to europe to invest in instead of here.
Example: My father was recently made redundant from his old job at Celestica, a high tech box-build company (he has since got another job which is good) because of the sheer cost of keeping the british operation running. Instead they parcelled off all my dad's projects to italy, in the hands of an incompetant (spelling?!) fool. but that is irrelevent. what is relevant is that big multi-nationals in the US feel the cost of operations in britain is rising.
Another point to be very aware of is that the euro is now the currency of the republic of ireland. which means you are going to see a lot of euro's creeping into britain 'through the back door' if you like, as they are accepted at a lot of airports and shops along the border of the republic and northern ireland.
I think the government of this country are for joining the euro, but haven't the balls to admit that to us because public opinion is still in favour of the pound. a year down the line, when lots of people will have used the currency on holiday, seen it in the high streets of big cities and basically realised that the currency is tangiable and real? that i think is what labour is banking on. familiarity.
phew! i think i'm gonna go to bed! later dudes and dudettes!

 

I'd love to have our currency change to the Euro.











But since I live in Australia I don't think it will happen too soon.

 

Hehehe australia in europe!

thats a good idea! Euroralia!

Tis true what the govt want to do is join the currency, but the time is not now, let the people get use to it then spring it on em.

Face it everybody wants to go down in history, blairs no difference, hes big oppurtunity is to get britain into the euro.

I mean maggaie thatcher "the milk lady" down in history etc etc

 

hehe, yeah maggie will cert do down in history. single handed almost-destroyer of britain's heavy industry, firing on argie ships that are running away so having a nice war to take the heat out of critics back home. lovely lady!
that's a good point about wanting to be remembered though, blair would just love that, the slimy ar**!
well we DID own the aussies at one point....britain had the largest empire ever, even bigger than roman. we used to own 1/4 of the world! then along comes world war II...

 

Euro.

Change is inevitable, my friends. Its time for the jingoists and xenophobes to accept that we live in a big continent, and that we will all prosper if we all have the same currency.
Whilst I am against our govt not being able to set our own interest rates, I am in favour of the Euro. Contradictory maybe, but thats how I see it.

And after all, the right wing press love the USA. Dont they see that the Eurozone will become exactly the same if we all have the same currency?

 

Stick with the sterling I say, but I do agree that change is inevitable and we could end up in a deeper recession if we dont keep up. Although its a shame it has to called a euro, the word is jinxed... eurodisney, eurotunnel, etc etc.

 

we live in a big continent


I dont I live on an island.

edit: But got to give maggie credit she did kick argetine BUTT!
Some programs on it on ch4 this week.

 

about the argentine conflict we still made loads of still mistakes or should i say the politicians made really bad mistakes.

 

u just watched those programs on channel 4 didn't you?!
yeah i think you're right. it could so easily gone the other way. if the argies had had 4 or 5 more exocets then u could scratch our carriers and then we wolud have lost! scary to think really!
anyway i'm gonna go play tiberium sun. nice. later peeps!

 

but we'll lose those wonderful 50p's with the stars on. You know the ones, you feel really privelaged to have if u get one cos they're rare! (or maybe thats just me)

 

yeah very close! incuding this debate on the euro now 10 Vs 6 (JJF loads up his SOCKS)

//Plan foiled he cant remember any of the passwords!

 

Screw Thatcher.
Tried to turn the UK into the 51st state, failed.
Smashed the welfare state. Poor got poorer, and the rich got richer under the witch.
Still, every cloud has a silver lining. Because of her, we wont see a Tory government for another 15 years.

 

And what would be wrong with being the 51st state, pray tell?

 

And what would be wrong with being the 51st state, pray tell?

How much time have you got for us to list the reasons?

 

Don't fuss so. We won't force you to fly our flag....yet.

 

I'm thinking Blair is picking up where Maggie left off

 

I emphatically say we shouldn't.
We don't need to join Europe.
The government may say we are just handing over our pound for a Euro but we are handing more power to the EU which we CANNOT do. Once we lose our currency we are controlled by Europe. Do you really want that?
I certainly don't. We have needed Europe before and now we are being controlled by these bureacrats and Tony Blair just wants to hand over the control of this country to them.
Britain should say independent of Europe and scrap being in the EU we don't need them.

Its basically Germany getting control of Europe via the EU (its extreme i know but thats as simple as it gets).

EDIT: Also think about this if we were to join the Euro and we faced problems of high inflation and wanted interest rates to rise, with the effective control we would have given the EU and the ECB (european central bank), we wouldn't get help because it could damage some countries and benefit others but overall damage Europe's economy.
It baffles me why Blair wants to rid our currency and our control over our finances to the Europeans.
At least Thatcher wasn't trying desperately to give Europe our controls over our country.

 

"Its basically Germany getting control of Europe via the EU (its extreme i know but thats as simple as it gets)."

And who says racism and xenophobia is dead? Suppose youll say something like, "theyve been planning this since Nuremberg" next. Christ, I hate Little Englanders.

Even the onces who support ITFC.

 

>Once we lose our currency we are controlled by Europe.

Don't think that's true. For instance our law and order system (no laughing at the back please ) will still be our own. your comment implies that as soon as we accept the euro (and we will) we will cease to be our own country and be in some sort of european superstate. this is not true.

>We have needed Europe before
>Britain should say...we don't need them.

hummm...!

>Tony Blair just wants to hand over the control of this country to them.

hahahahahahaha! that one made me laugh. if there was ever a case of power corrupting someone it is mr. Blair. now he want's to hand over power to someone else? i think not. Blair would do ANYTHING to hang on to power.

as for your germany comment, well anyone with an ounce of brain can see that is a dangerous and narrow-minded point of view (sorry to get a bit nasty but racism and xenophobia really really pee me off).

Britian has a strong economy and therefore it's inclusion will stabalise and strengthen the euro. and as a side point the german economy whilst on paper is slightly stronger than ours is a lot more fragile due to the west-east divide (communism sucks )