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Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« on: September 18, 2005, 12:58:28 AM »
I heard that Great Britain is willing to join the euro currency? good bad? is this rite?
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2005, 01:01:45 AM »
no and bad!
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2005, 01:03:21 AM »
its a bad thing, i dont think it will happen, i dont know a single person who is for it
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2005, 11:27:41 AM »
It will not happen,the UK economy is nothing like the rest of Europe. 
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2005, 01:11:39 PM »
Definitely bad, bad, bad........    :(

It would mean Britain's economy being controlled to a greater extent by Continental Europe,  and further loss of sovereignty to the EU.   Apparently it would also mean that our gold reserves would be physically transferred to the Central European Bank in, I believe, Frankfurt.

Will it happen?   Maybe not for a good few years, but unless we get somebody with a little common sense in government soon, I can see it happening eventually whether we like it or not.

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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2005, 02:48:58 PM »
Hell better freeze over before we convert.
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2005, 09:33:37 AM »
Quote from: bvamin on September 18, 2005, 02:48:58 PM
Hell better freeze over before we convert.

Agreed.

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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2005, 07:27:02 AM »
In some ways I'm in favour of changing over,stops the money men making a profit from me everytime we travel and reduces the risk of speculators wrecking our economy,I'm against it because its a stupid name.
Maybe it would be better to have one "world" currency,that would solve many problems,we could call it the Pound LOL.

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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2005, 08:51:14 AM »
I think it's a bad thing. I think it would be dumb considering the pound is so stong... And it's the GBP, not the GBE.
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2005, 01:27:40 PM »
There is no way that the UK will adopt the €.  No one in UK government in his/her right mind would approve that.

However, for purely selfish reasons and all else aside, I'd have no problem with it.   ;D
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2005, 02:03:36 PM »
from a travel standpoint it would physcially be easier to have one wallet- not two. 

I would welcome a brief pro and con argunment explained to me.  are people worried that things will become more expensive?  are they worried about losing power?  are they worried about joining with a larger entity? 
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2005, 02:11:02 PM »
yeah , I see that occurring as soon as the US join it... [smiley=laugh4.gif]
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2005, 02:59:42 PM »
No.

Bad. Very bad.
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« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2005, 03:03:12 PM »
Quote from: meggles on September 20, 2005, 02:03:36 PM
from a travel standpoint it would physcially be easier to have one wallet- not two. 

 are people worried that things will become more expensive?  are they worried about losing power?  are they worried about joining with a larger entity? 

All of the above plus the pound is a strong part of the national identity of Britain.
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Re: Will UK join the EURO currency?? what do you all think?
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2005, 03:14:32 PM »
Quote from: Alicia on September 20, 2005, 02:11:02 PM
yeah , I see that occurring as soon as the US join it... [smiley=laugh4.gif]

lol yes like we don't have enough issues with spending here, at least now the politicians know what our money is worth, not that it matters much..  :-X
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