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Originally Posted by Chris
Actually, I’m not offering it as a strategy to ensure we stay out. There’s no need, because we are staying out for the foreseeable future. With that being the case there’s space to speculate freely. I think we have to be either fully in or fully out. I’d have thought you would acknowledge that the UK’s semi-detached status within the EU helped create the space in which Euroscepticism could dwell and grow for many years prior to the Brexit referendum being called and, especially with regards the currency, made it even possible for us to leave.
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I don't see things as such a black and white choice. Eurosceptisism in 2016 was more driven on the back of large scale immigration and communities suffering from post-recession austerity.
The Euro's proven to be a robust currency that has weathered economic storms successfully and is not the weak currency that Eurosceptics used to pretend it was but I can see the benefits of having our own currency. Would it make it harder to leave if we had the Euro? Probably but I see rejoining as inevitable as Brexit is proving damaging to the UK in many ways, but as I said, certainly not within the next 15 years.
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Yes always round up not down, I'd imagine there were corner shop half penny millionaires of the back of that and this time round the only difference would be instead of mojos it'd be mojitos  |
Certainly a bit of price inflation when Croatia joined the Euro. But I don't think it's a one to one at the moment - the Pound is worth about 15% more than the Euro so a Euro's only worth about 87p. So Poundland would have to become Euro-15 cents-land. Although a lot of their stuff is no longer £1 anyway!
