Pound

[Rich]

POUND

[Exegesis]

the british pound ate my inner child...

[Kraken]

Get rid of it,

Get the Euro FFS.


Its bound to happen sooner or later.

[Steadders]

wrong

pound = win

[KingDaveRa]

Originally posted by Kraken
Get rid of it,

Get the Euro FFS.


Its bound to happen sooner or later.

Yay!

Euro = Win. Britain trades fairly with the EU and the world as a whole.

Pound = Lose. Over-inflated leading to a British economy importing more than it exports.

[gemz]

With my exp of dealing with £ and € at work have convinced me that the EURO currency actually wins. You can already use the Euro in most supermarkets anyway :) It would be nice for our currency to officially change to Euros though. It's so much easier.

[Rich]

Our country is **** tbh really isnt it?

[Flufball]

I'm all for joining Europe, the only Idea I don't like is the idea of a state, it just seems to americanised. I'm not to bortherd about governmence, but, to me, the England/Scotland/wales/whetever in the UK will always be countrys, not a state.

But still, roll on the euro.

[Shazz]

Originally posted by Kraken
Get rid of it,

Get the Euro FFS.


Its bound to happen sooner or later.

Pound = win
You = ignorant scum

i rest my case, the Pound stays and Kraken goes :p:

[Nikumba]

Im for not joining the Euro etc, as if we do have to pay 20% on VAT not the nice 17.5% we have now :)

Nikumba

[gemz]

People make up random prices anyway :\

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by Nikumba
Im for not joining the Euro etc, as if we do have to pay 20% on VAT not the nice 17.5% we have now :)

Nikumba


all those calculators with VAT buttons will become obselete

[Nikumba]

Originally posted by Elbonio
all those calculators with VAT buttons will become obselete

Yeah and i bet they wont get into Silicon Heaven cos they are not from an eastern european country :)

Nikumba

[no friends]

i think we should go into the euro

[Shazz]

Originally posted by no friends
money money money aint sh*t to me
but i gotta earn i lot just to be free - kid rock

money money money must be funny
in a rich mans world - ? ?

e.g. i dont care! i refer more to the top though because i aint rich!

euro is nicer looking

Stop talking B******s before i tell them who you really are and why you should not be here...

[Darkblane]

Currently in Germany, Munich to be exact, sat with a collection of stupid monopoly money in my wallet aka the Euro.

The worst offender of the Euro currency has to be the 1 cent ... how small is that ffs! The other problem is that alot of the coins look the same from a distance. The 20 cent, the 50 cent and the 1 Euro, from a quick glance in the wallet all look very similar and only when I take one out can I see what it is.

At least the coins for the Pound have more differences such as the 50 is quite a bit larger than the 20, the pound is a different colour to lower denominations etc.

Apart from the feel, sizes and and look of it all, I can't say that in the end there's much difference though, money is money.

However, I've grown up with the Pound, am used to the Pound and hence am quite happy to stick with the Pound.

[Mu5icMan]

What about British Heritadge. Anyway change of currency has to be the US Dollar

[KingDaveRa]

F*ck off does it.

The further AWAY from the USA we get the better.

[$OI$-kahless_uk]

personally I'll definetly vote against the euro if I'm even given the chance.....why on earth would we want to give up the strongest currency in the world in favour of an externally controlled currency worth much less on the world market?...by externally controlled I mean right now the pound sterling is controlled by the bank of england...the euro is controlled by the bundesbank in germany...NO THANKYOU....I'd only be happy with the euro if this country was able to maintain proper control over it...which we wont be....and besides all that I don't want to be a european...it's bad enough being british and I'm sure plenty of people in scotland, northern ireland and wales will agree with that...so why throw away even more of our sovreighnty just for cheap trading that we can easilly do with america anyway?

[KBB]

We do more trade with the Eurozone than we do with the US. The strong pound hurts a lot of firms because our exports are not as competitive and it makes imports very cheap.

There are clearly a whole world of issues this can lead to (in the macro economic sense) such as a lower standard of living or increased unemployment in the long run.

And there is the flip side of the coin too such as control going to the ECB and not kept with the BoE, but i cba to talk about it.

I think being a "proper" member of the EU would be good. Having lived in Europe I can say it is a great place to be. Maybe we should be part of it too?

[her0n]

/me slaps KBB with a can of Treadwell & Player


BAD!

:rolleyes:

[Flufball]

Indeed, If we had to be with one or the other, I would deffinataly go with europe.

[Exegesis]

Originally posted by KingDaveRa
F*ck off does it.

The further AWAY from the USA we get the better.

/me huggles Dave, you know you love us... and you want to be CLOSER! not further!

[Zeuseh]

i have never possesed or seen a euro.

[$OI$-kahless_uk]

we can still have the so called "free trade" with europe without throwing ourselves onto the euro bonfire....infact the whole point of the eu was to promote free trade amongst its member nations....now when you look at it you wonder what the hell happened.....free trade doesn't exist in europe...there are so many rediculous restrictions that we end up losing out hugely compared to what we could make trading with the usa (for example the hundreds of tonnes of bananas that get dumped because they aren't straight enough for the eu...and the cost of rebranding items such as chocolate bars to say chocolate flavoured bars because the eu says chocolate is made in belgium or not at all)....plus membership costs us over £11billion per year from which we get back less than £2billion in subsidies....it's just not worth it....and to make it worse europe is becoming "USA 2" with a centralised (read federal) government who can override local governments and laws seemingly at will....we'll have to sacrifice our trial by jury system...we'll have to sacrifice our current imperial measurement system (remember what happened when they tried that last time) before you know it we'll have to drive on the right to be more inline with europe....it's stupid.....

A unified europe is a good idea...but what is going on at the moment definetely isn't in this country's interests and I feel hugely sorry for the citizens of the new 10 member states this year who's businesses and legal systems are going to get thrown upside down just because someone in brussels says so.

[KingDaveRa]

I think the idea of a unified currency is good. It opens trade between us and the rest of Europe, and makes trade easier on the whole.

The stuff about straight bananas and the like was typical blown out of proportion crap thanks to The Sun and all the other trash tabloids.

What really gets my goat, is how scared of change people in the UK are. Its the 'don't rock the applecart' mentality that is going to see this country reduced to bugger all.

We have a crap currency, nothing major worth selling, and an imbalance of payments bigger than the GDP of some small countries.

I agree that the current european state is a mess. Its grown out of control, and as long as the UK keeps flitting about being pally with the US and going against all the other EU member states, its not going to improve. I think Europe can, and will work for the better, but only if the UK invests itself in it more.

Oh, and Exegesis, I think American people themselves are fine - I know a few and they seem pretty disenfranchised with the country and how it acts in the world. Its the political stuff I don't like.