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View Poll Results: Should Britain Adopt The Euro? | |
Yes
|     | 3 | 25.00% | |
No
|    | 7 | 58.33% | |
Undecided
|    | 2 | 16.67% |
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22nd September 2008, 06:27 PM
|  | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 248 posts. Location: Middle of the Med Reputation:  | |  Should Britain Adopt The Euro?
Sooner or later Britain may well become the odd man out in Europe.
Over to you 
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22nd September 2008, 06:33 PM
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No
We are an island and i have enough trouble with the English money Oldie 
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22nd September 2008, 08:16 PM
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Oh yes .. feminine logic
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22nd September 2008, 08:40 PM
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No way should we take the Euro.
Not unless it's going to stop it from being rip off Britain any more, which won't happen if any government in this country has anything to say about it
Hundred pennies in a pound, Donna
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22nd September 2008, 08:44 PM
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I have voted no.
My reason? When we went from imperial to metric it was used to "hide" a price hike and we all know the exact same thing would happen if we converted to the euro.
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22nd September 2008, 09:13 PM
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No way!
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22nd September 2008, 09:14 PM
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Could you expand on that a bit?
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22nd September 2008, 09:18 PM
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What's the point in changing?
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22nd September 2008, 10:22 PM
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I voted no, but seeing as we are the only Country that acually implements European legislation, it is only a matter of time.
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23rd September 2008, 12:13 AM
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You can always adopt the dollar. Then you could feel like you were paying less for merchandise. |
23rd September 2008, 07:35 AM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
If only to stop the banks making more money out of exchange I say we adopt it. Proper £sd disappeared years ago and this horrible new stuff just wears holes in your pockets.
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23rd September 2008, 09:01 AM
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Get rid of 5ps and 2ps and 1ps
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23rd September 2008, 10:08 AM
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Yerp - NBG anyway.
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23rd September 2008, 10:18 AM
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No, I don't think we should. It's just completely pointless and I don't see the point in changing after using £'s all these years.
Fake pounds are rising, though. Be on the lookout!
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23rd September 2008, 02:15 PM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 8,001 posts. Location: Market Haemorrhoids, Middle England Reputation: | | |
A bit off topic perhaps - but what would you do with a bad pound coin? Hand it in or shift it on sharpish at your most hated shop?
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23rd September 2008, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Blackmirror  Get rid of 5ps and 2ps and 1ps | Then how will you buy small amounts of penny sweets
We used to have to check all £20 notes that we got given at work (and they probably still do), because we got given a few fakes. One of them was a really obvious photocopy on normal paper 
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24th September 2008, 08:55 AM
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Wonder what prompted this thread -- some new report, perhaps?
Either way, I'd have to say ... I don't know what difference(s) it would make in real terms. 
If we end up (as oldie suggests) the only member of Club A (£s) and the only non-member of Club B (€s) then ... maybe we'd be "marginalised". (?) Quote: |
Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart A bit off topic perhaps - but what would you do with a bad pound coin? Hand it in or shift it on sharpish at your most hated shop? | Tried a condom machine? Official advice if you suspect that one of your coins is not genuine is to take it to your local police station and hand it over. Will people get their pound back? "No, they won't," says a spokeswoman http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008.../scamsandfraud
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30th September 2008, 10:49 PM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Sep 2008, 574 posts. Location: UK Reputation: | |
I voted no, the cost of living rises immediately, I know from experience that Spain has become far more expensive since they lost the peseta, it was false economy from the start.
now that's my 2 penn'worth 
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1st October 2008, 07:52 AM
| | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,171 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation: | | |
The same in Germany Dotty
My brother is really finding it tough
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