couldnt we have stopped being so stubborn and holding on to 'individuality' and have just gone for the euros, whats your views evryone?
2007-02-25 07:53:42 · 24 answers · asked by ダニエル 3 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
Quite a few places already accept Euros. If everywhere accepted them we could have both currencies, people could use whichever one that wanted and there'd be no need for visitors to exchange money - best of both worlds; just like it is with the English and Scottish currencies.
2007-02-25 11:00:11 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Economic madness to adopt the €. I'd go further. UK should leave the European Union and become an Associate member. It is not democratic; e.g, you cannot throw out the council of ministers (who make the rules) and elect others (or didn't you know that?) It was started to prevent the Germans from causing any more wars - that has been achieved many times over. Now it is just a club to subsidize peasant farmers, starting with the French, at the expense of more successful economies. By the way, did you know that an EU bureaucrat in Brussels or elsewhere cannot be prosecuted for anything, EVER.
2007-02-26 07:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by john b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I argue with my wife over this.. I am for the Euro she is against.One of my arguments is that because we are trading much more with our european neighbours you can really see the difference in prices that we as a non Euro country are paying for goods and services than our Euro using nations. I think we pay over the odds for stuff and if we were on the Euro we would see this more easily and would actually have the government and retailers worried at what they could charge us.Stop being anti European and go the whole hog I say !
2007-02-25 16:01:08 · answer #3 · answered by mickey 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Those who travel to Europe all the time spend more on charges for converting money than is reasonable. Yes, its probable that all the shop keepers will hoick up the prices, but maybe they could put up both prices so we could make a comparison. I want the country to be Euro rather than the pound. If we are part of the United States of Europe why not go all the way?
2007-02-25 16:01:17 · answer #4 · answered by JJ88 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That really would be the final nail in the coffin of this country if we went over to the euro....for those of you who love the euro so much...go live where it is used and leave us as we are thank you very much!
2007-02-25 18:52:06 · answer #5 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Considering that the conversion rate from Euro to GBP is almost fixed, yes that is a bit stupid.
The decision to wait and see was right 5 years ago.
However, it looks like the Euro is here to stay.
2007-02-25 16:22:36 · answer #6 · answered by mraei 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Converting to euros would've meant handing over control to Brussels, which would've meant no local government control here in Britain. We would not be allowed a say in local issues, as we are now (sure, our views still get ignored now, but at least we have a say!).
2007-02-25 16:02:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The pound is far too strong right now to throw it all away on a notion. Plus, Europe would be only too happy to take us down a few notches when control was handed over.
2007-02-25 16:01:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not really. we have to wait another 50 years and after that may be we can have euros when everyone will be completely fed up with constant exchange from one currency to another
2007-02-25 15:57:45 · answer #9 · answered by Everona97 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. But it ought to be called the Thaler (An ancient pan-European currency which the dollar is named after. The famous pieces of eight.) Just to remind our American cousins we were there first.
2007-02-25 15:58:09 · answer #10 · answered by alan h 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋