Normandy seagull
Well-known member
Let it be universal- It is ssssssssoooooooooooo easy!!!! Without the euro I would be fcuked or "dans la merde"
Mr C said:Hmm... it appears to me that the strongest argument the pro-Euro lobby can come up with is "it makes things easier when travelling and avoids all that mucking about changing currencies."
Isn't part of the fun of travelling abroad that you get to use different currencies??
Oh, and all the negatives associated with the Euro are outweighed by the above argument are they?
zefarelly said:Looney, I know nothing much about economices, but how come if we would require tax harmonisations, yet EVERYTHING here is more expensive than say France ( by everything I mean everyday items, food, clothes, electrical hardware, property, cars, fuel) ?
Strike said:I just feel its corrupt and not as stable as the pound. I could go on,
Also a group of countries with the same system/ currency does not work most of time.
Also it would mean the end of us running our own ecomeny, it would be run in Frankfurt, the home of the Central European Bank
Thats some of my view and this will be my last post in any politics thread here.
beorhthelm said:Unless you have some hard empirical proof of that id say that is complete bollocks. I remember reading a study around 2000 that took a typical households bills for a month, comparing a English home with a French one. They where the same give or take a couple of quid/euros. for everything that was cheaper in France, somthing would balance it out and be cheaper in the UK.
All told, the cost of living is pretty much the same between the major european countries and the UK. BUT our taxes are lower, so if we where to maintain our cost of living under the Euro, we'd need an instant and substantil increase in salaries straight away.
Strike said:
Also it would mean the end of us running our own ecomeny, it would be run in Frankfurt, the home of the Central European Bank
Mr C said:Isn't part of the fun of travelling abroad that you get to use different currencies??
zefarelly said:I dont agre with the salary raise, why not raise tax, lots of people dont pay enough as it is, this can be offsett by a reduction in duty on everyday items and VAT . . .isnt that more in line with th EU states ? ( I dont know, just guessing !)
Strike said:I just feel its corrupt and not as stable as the pound. I could go on,
Also a group of countries with the same system/ currency does not work most of time.
Also it would mean the end of us running our own ecomeny, it would be run in Frankfurt, the home of the Central European Bank
Thats some of my view and this will be my last post in any politics thread here.
alan partridge said:What do they do in Parliament all day? Chat about dance music?
Strike said:Also a group of countries with the same system/ currency does not work most of time.