...anyone been paid yet?

what ?

...... anxiously waiting to see how this turns out.

Here we goooooo

I thought the UK was switching to the Euro.

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I thought the UK was switching to the Euro.

Never. Well maybe the Scots.

sc uk

we like pounds and we like to be in control,biggest mistake to join the euro,you should be pround of your currency and country.
ITS ONLY ROCK-ROLL BUT WE LIKE IT.

The Euro was a bad idea from the start....
It seems like the old system worked pretty well, for a long long time.

the Euro is a good idea !
It had to be done to compete with strong currencies like Dollar and Yen. Even the Germans finally admitted it.
As far as UK is concerned, we know that they never really cared for Europe and that they are much closer to USA. I never understood why they wanted to join in the early 70's except for political strategy. They give very few money to Europe and get refunded thanks to Mrs Thatcher :"I want my money back !"..ha ha too funny !
so, no surprise that they refuse the Euro.

I lost about five pounds last week... then I gained some of them back.

You can't have a monetary union without a political union. The idea that countries as disparate as Germany and Greece could share the same currency was wishful thinking at best.

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union. The idea that countries as disparate as Germany and Greece could share the same currency was wishful thinking at best.

The People of Britain voted yes to join a common market in the 70s. A common market only. That's what was sold to them. NOT a United States of Europe.

They have not been asked about all the subsequent nonsense since.

It's a disgrace.

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No, I thought not. No pound sign on this keyboard. I'll have to stay out of this discussion.

ALT 0163 = £

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We're all in this together

Who wants to join the Euro...it will probably be gone by the end of this year it's only the vanity of the EU leaders that is keeping it alive....and the UK sends more £££ to Europe than we get back from it.

Long live the British pound.

I'll renounce my British Citizenship if we ever join the Euro.

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

I figured you meant the currency, not weight measurement. Especially as the UK has gone metric.

Once the switch to Euros is complete, the UK will officially be a land of quiche-eaters.

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

No, the US is a single country and the EU is a collection of countries. States are divisions within a country, but not countries unto themselves.

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

No, the US is a single country and the EU is a collection of countries. States are divisions within a country, but not countries unto themselves.

That's not what I heard from a couple of Texans I knew, they said Texas was the real country and all the others were just cowardly umbrella states

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

No, the US is a single country and the EU is a collection of countries. States are divisions within a country, but not countries unto themselves.

That's not what I heard from a couple of Texans I knew, they said Texas was the real country and all the others were just cowardly umbrella states

They probably think that because Texas, at 773 miles [1,244 km] wide by 790 miles [1,270 km] long, is so big it must feel like a country unto itself. Then again, there was a movement in the state of Vermont some years back expressing the desire for the state to secede from the union.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vermont_Republic

Just so long as they keep a free internet, I don't care what the states do.

Have i missed something over the weekend ?

Only i've no clue what this thread is about

Anyone ?

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

No, the US is a single country and the EU is a collection of countries. States are divisions within a country, but not countries unto themselves.

That's not what I heard from a couple of Texans I knew, they said Texas was the real country and all the others were just cowardly umbrella states

They probably think that because Texas, at 773 miles [1,244 km] wide by 790 miles [1,270 km] long, is so big it must feel like a country unto itself. Then again, there was a movement in the state of Vermont some years back expressing the desire for the state to secede from the union.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vermont_Republic

Just so long as they keep a free internet, I don't care what the states do.

I think they were just kidding around...........Was that Vermont wanted Texas out?
I did have a dream in 1998 that one of the States would declare independance..this year 2013.

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That's not what I heard from a couple of Texans I knew, they said Texas was the real country and all the others were just cowardly umbrella states

Have you been talking to StonesTod ?

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You can't have a monetary union without a political union.

Don't all states of America have the dollar?

Mathijs

The different states of the U.S. do not have political sovereignty that supersedes the federal government, or radically different economies or work ethics or tax cultures.

So the EU basically is the same as the US.

Mathijs

No, exactly wrong. The EU is not like the US. If it were it would not have dozens of countries with the same currency but different fiscal policy, tax structures, etc. A common market is one thing, a common currency quite another. A state government in the US cannot override the federal government regarding responsibilities that are assigned to the federal government. The EU does not have that system. It has a bunch of agreements (treaties) between sovereign countries - that and a lot of wishful thinking.