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This will have no effect anywhere, it is just a curious thread to see who wants the Euro to replace the pound. So nothing except "Yes" (For Euro) or "No"(Against Euro) in this thread please. I'll start.
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To put it one way...
The backdrop to this is a nation who (if The Sun is to be believed) are overwhelmingly opposed to joining the single currency because we don't want to lose our "good old pounds and pence". Yes, we are fighting for the right to use pieces of paper and metal that has the Queens head on it as opposed to pieces of paper and metal with a picture of some dreadful foreign type on it. Hmm....it doesn't seem quite as rational when put like that does it? D'you know, I think that is probably because as arguments go, it's a vast pile of hamster droppings that have been out in the sun for too long.
Why are we so adamant about keeping our currency as Sterling? It was only 30 years ago that we were still using imperial currency. Does that mean that someone, somewhere is campaigning for its return? (actually, this being England, there almost certainly is. I'll bet they vote Tory as well...) If so, why stop there? Why not set up a campaign to bring back the Groat! Or trawl further back in history to demand the Denarii! Except we couldn’t do that, could we? The Denarii, one of our earliest currencies, was used throughout the Roman Empire. In effect, it was the first Euro, although it was used over a far wider area.
Money is a method of bartering, nothing more and nothing less. It is a convenience that allows us to avoid carrying livestock with us when we want to go shopping (don't you think that it's a shame that currency developed using precious metals as the standard instead of goods? I think the idea of going shopping with an 8 goat note, or a 2 chicken coin is an irresistible one! Just picture the scenes at the shops "Alright then love there's the dress, that'll be 4 eggs and litre of milk please." "Oooh, can you break a 20 cow note? I've not got anything smaller.")
If we're going to get p!ssed off about the whole European issue, then could we perhaps get p!ssed off at it for the fact that it has a system of bureaucracy that makes Kafka's "The Trial" seem like a model of simplicity, or that there are legions of unelected people making decisions that will affect thousands if not millions of people, and they are totally unaccountable, or even that no-one really knows what the hell the European Parliament actually does. But please, don't kick off with it because of cold, hard cash because I find the idea that we are *that* obsessed with money a rather disturbing one.
To put it another way, yes.
The backdrop to this is a nation who (if The Sun is to be believed) are overwhelmingly opposed to joining the single currency because we don't want to lose our "good old pounds and pence". Yes, we are fighting for the right to use pieces of paper and metal that has the Queens head on it as opposed to pieces of paper and metal with a picture of some dreadful foreign type on it. Hmm....it doesn't seem quite as rational when put like that does it? D'you know, I think that is probably because as arguments go, it's a vast pile of hamster droppings that have been out in the sun for too long.
Why are we so adamant about keeping our currency as Sterling? It was only 30 years ago that we were still using imperial currency. Does that mean that someone, somewhere is campaigning for its return? (actually, this being England, there almost certainly is. I'll bet they vote Tory as well...) If so, why stop there? Why not set up a campaign to bring back the Groat! Or trawl further back in history to demand the Denarii! Except we couldn’t do that, could we? The Denarii, one of our earliest currencies, was used throughout the Roman Empire. In effect, it was the first Euro, although it was used over a far wider area.
Money is a method of bartering, nothing more and nothing less. It is a convenience that allows us to avoid carrying livestock with us when we want to go shopping (don't you think that it's a shame that currency developed using precious metals as the standard instead of goods? I think the idea of going shopping with an 8 goat note, or a 2 chicken coin is an irresistible one! Just picture the scenes at the shops "Alright then love there's the dress, that'll be 4 eggs and litre of milk please." "Oooh, can you break a 20 cow note? I've not got anything smaller.")
If we're going to get p!ssed off about the whole European issue, then could we perhaps get p!ssed off at it for the fact that it has a system of bureaucracy that makes Kafka's "The Trial" seem like a model of simplicity, or that there are legions of unelected people making decisions that will affect thousands if not millions of people, and they are totally unaccountable, or even that no-one really knows what the hell the European Parliament actually does. But please, don't kick off with it because of cold, hard cash because I find the idea that we are *that* obsessed with money a rather disturbing one.
To put it another way, yes.
No
Yes.
lalakersrule wrote:
> My vote is for No. Let the rest of Europe wallow in the economic mess
> they're in i'd like to stay out of it thank you.
I must have missed the economic mess around here then. We're doing just fine.
> My vote is for No. Let the rest of Europe wallow in the economic mess
> they're in i'd like to stay out of it thank you.
I must have missed the economic mess around here then. We're doing just fine.
9 No votes, 5 Yes votes.
My vote is for No. Let the rest of Europe wallow in the economic mess they're in i'd like to stay out of it thank you.
8 No votes, 5 Yes votes.
Nope.
Worst idea ever.
Worst idea ever.
Yes to the Euro.
No to joining the EU.
Can I have it boths ways? Probably not.
In which case I say NO.
No to joining the EU.
Can I have it boths ways? Probably not.
In which case I say NO.
I dont like the idea of there being a single interest rate for all the countries in the euro. If one country is in recession and the other is booming then you are gonna have to compromise.
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