UK 'closer' to joining Euro!!!

The UK is "closer" to joining the euro than ever before, according to European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

http://money.uk.msn.com/investing/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=11470106

AC

This government will do anything to dig itself out of a hole having blamed everyone and anything for the current state of affairs except ,of course, themselves.

itll be a vote loser for whichever government that does it - plus itll be another way of putting prices up, when we turned decimal prices shot up, only we couldnt work it all put, this time we will!

they should be making britain how it should be not trying to be clever joining with other countries

that doesn't suprise me either, had heard on the grape that money had been loaded or something.

theyll use the recession as a reason we have to join it, and vat will go to 18% too.

£1.00 was worth e1.07 this morning and falling.Looks like joining the Euro is out of our hands anyway.

they will want us to speak another language before long there will be nothing of our britain left

£1 used to be worth e1.50 (about the same as a US$)

Strong euro, weak pound, despite brown claiming he is saving the world

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7340378.stm

Yes!Saw the gaff by Brown but failed to find the link through the BEEB.They were still laughing late into the night in the House of Commons.
'Nero fiddling whilst Rome burned' springs to mind.

It will bounce back next year after the 'euro zone' suffers from lack of tourism money which comes mainly from..........Britain, US and Japan........Oooh the ones they are laughing at presently.

At least we get to have the last laugh

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but we pay, we always do!

Its scotched my plans of moving to the Alentejo

The portuguese (obviously not the ones from Alentejo) use this word to call other people lazy

Because they sit back and watch their cheese and grapes develop and then put in a few weeks work and wait for their wine to ferment. lol

Best part of the country IMO. NO BRITS That may change though. Silly 'new villages' appearing all over the untouched rustic areas which look like holiday condos to me!!!

AC

Been looking at property in the region for over a year now but the deminishing pound has put paid to that at the moment.Also have a friend out there 'odd-jobing' but struggling a bit.

Expensive part of Portugal at the moment. Lisbon is very fashionable at the moment and also the Troia Peninsula/Sesimbra/Arrabida are drawing quite a lot of investment.

Hopefully now the money is drying up to buy said properties the housing prices will come down.

My wife's family live in Palmela near Setubal at the start of the Arrabida range and its what Lincoln could've been like if the hadn't built all the way down the hill and further. lol. Very expensive though.

AC