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GBP - How low will it go?

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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    You're not an economist, but you imagine that HMG were manipulating inflation for several years before the referendum to manipulate the results - but you don't know why they would want to do that.
    Then you also think that oil prices going up by >200% in one year "exacerbated" inflation.

    You're right, you're not an economist, but you're happy to jump to wild conclusions of your own that meet your current opinion but bear little resemblance to reality for the rest of the world
    Let me ask you this question, do you believe that all the improvements that the UK populace has enjoyed since the UK joined the EU are entirely as a result of joining the EU? and further do you not attribute any of the disadvantages that the UK populace have suffered were as a result of anything associated with the EU?

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      GBP - How low will it go?

      Originally posted by JohntheBike View Post
      Let me ask you this question, do you believe that all the improvements that the UK populace has enjoyed since the UK joined the EU are entirely as a result of joining the EU? and further do you not attribute any of the disadvantages that the UK populace have suffered were as a result of anything associated with the EU?
      No, I do not believe everything good in the UK is because of the EU.
      Unlike you, I do not believe that everything bad in the UK must be somehow attributed to the EU, or a conspiracy linked to it.
      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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        Originally posted by JohntheBike View Post
        I didn't say there were. Look at my other posts.
        Ted Heath had pay and prices restraint policy before the UK entered the EEC, so your theory is completely wrong.

        If you stoke inflation then your currency devalues so it would have been self defeating.
        I'm alright Jack

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          Originally posted by JohntheBike View Post
          I didn't say there were. Look at my other posts.
          what? and die of sheer tedium? no thanks.

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            Originally posted by JohntheBike View Post
            Let me ask you this question, do you believe that all the improvements that the UK populace has enjoyed since the UK joined the EU are entirely as a result of joining the EU? and further do you not attribute any of the disadvantages that the UK populace have suffered were as a result of anything associated with the EU?
            The remainers I know, accept that EU is far from perfect and that all the good that happened to the UK is not only because of the EU... The same way they are sure all the bad happening here isn't exclusively EU fault! Can you say the same of the brexiteers you know!? I can't, but then I'm also blessed for not knowing many...

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            "The boy who cried Sheep"

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              Now it's also a fact that the most prosperous years of the UK with the fastest economic growth in its history happened in the period after joining the EU.

              One can accept that the relevant fact on joining the EU had some influence on it, or that all of sudden all politicians and rulers in this country became brilliant leaders, what is hard to believe specially looking at the last two PMs we had...

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              "The boy who cried Sheep"

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                Originally posted by CryingSheep View Post
                Now it's also a fact that the most prosperous years of the UK with the fastest economic growth in its history happened in the period after joining the EU.

                One can accept that the relevant fact on joining the EU had some influence on it, or that all of sudden all politicians and rulers in this country became brilliant leaders, what is hard to believe specially looking at the last two PMs we had...

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                The EU wasn't formed until 1st November 1993.

                And we weren't too happy about that, either. Just saying like.
                Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                  Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
                  The EU wasn't formed until 1st November 1993.

                  And we weren't too happy about that, either. Just saying like.
                  So you are saying you can admit EEC/EC had something to do with the UK success but not the EU, is that what you mean!?
                  "The boy who cried Sheep"

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                    Originally posted by CryingSheep View Post
                    So you are saying you can admit EEC/EC had something to do with the UK success but not the EU, is that what you mean!?
                    What I am saying is the EU was only formed in 1993.

                    There is no doubt that the UK has benefitted from the Common Market. It's the rest of the tulipe that I am at odds with.
                    Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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                      Pound Falling to Parity Is an Idea That’s Starting to Take Hold

                      Boris will ram through a no-deal Brexit and start the mother of recessions

                      fill your boots
                      I'm alright Jack

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