in or out of euro?

soon then later we going have a vote on this i wondering what you all think?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18659072

Not that I have a vote but I would hope all the countries stay put. If not it could be very damaging for the world economy

its' only for the uk at the moment

Yeah but it could start a trend and would definately devalue the Euro. The UK and Germany are the two strong economies using the Euro. If one were to pull out they currency would be devalued and make it harder for Greece and Spain to get out of debt.

we still got our pound ;p

My concern is mostly selfish. The US banks are heavily invested in Europe and a devaluization of the Euro would hurt their stocks which have just recently started to go back up

people in the uk are getting fed up of people who we haven't voted for telling us what we can or cant do there will always going be breaking point when this happens in the world.

I certainly wouldn't want us to go into the Euro now. We're better as we are - I have a feeling that the Euro could collapse.

Economically we need out we pay a fortune on bailing out poor euro countries - they should have been a hell of a lot more selective and not just tried to become bigger than America. Also we pay a fortune in benefits and health care to "eu citizens" who wouldn't give you their * if you went to their country.

Politically I think it will be disastrous and cost us a lot of exports and possibly raise the price of imports

Another thing that annoys me is that here in NI it takes longer for the eu laws to be passed here cause we have our own government so by the time they get passed/accepted the eu deadline is nearly up and we come very close to having huge fines for failing to do stuff. I.e we were asked to decrease the amount of pollution in river but took too long to get the laws sorted out between the two governments in n.i (after already taking ages to get to us from Westminster) that we were about 10 years behind everyone else

Also the eu law are the same for everywhere no matter about the climate. I dunno how that woks as its a he'll of a lot wetter here than south France and Greece!!!


Also the euro would totally destroy the economy. Ruined Ireland didn't it.

No way.
Even the torries have to agree that Labour(Gordon Brown) got this one right. He may be a fat numpty, but when it come to economics the guy knew his stuff. Pound stays.........simples

We can see how it's screwing the rest of Europe and if we all had the same currency then we have a direct comparison on how dear the UK is

Do you think that would then in turn make people less likely to emmigrate here or make our prices come down dave?

Equi wrote:Do you think that would then in turn make people less likely to emmigrate here or make our prices come down dave?

I don't know about Northern Ireland Hayley (never been) as I believe I heard big problems about cross border shopping between north and south but I know Southern Ireland is exceptionally expensive and makes England/Scotland/Wales look like a bargain. But if you mean about the influx of polish into the UK in general etc , I believe its already happening , I know quite a few of my customers whoise polish contingent have gone home as its more worth their while due to wages etc going up over there. But saying that I'm not so good on politics and base my UK prices around the essentials like cigarettes and alcohol and housing

Yeah i know a few who have gone home, i even know an indian who has gone home. Yes there is a lot of irish folk who cross the boarder to shop and get petrol, and it used to be the other way round! lol

Equi wrote:Yeah i know a few who have gone home, i even know an indian who has gone home. Yes there is a lot of irish folk who cross the boarder to shop and get petrol, and it used to be the other way round! lol

I'm back over again in Westport for the week in 5 or 6 weeks time and I might just drive so I can take my own beer and munchies over, Mcd's is 1/2 as much again and couldn't find a pint under 4 euro