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From: Keith Anderson on 28 May 2007 03:59 On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:22:05 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: >Housing prices are out of control in the UK. It's horrendous. <<Selfishly crosses fingers, hoping that sale of UK apartment and purchase of a much cheaper property in Berlin goes through OK before the bubble bursts>> Keith, Bristol, UK
From: William Black on 28 May 2007 05:50 "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews(a)houston.rr.com> wrote in message news:465a64b0$0$10100$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com... > > > William Black wrote: > >> "Magda" <magda(a)eu> wrote in message >> news:efej53hrpbafjqmqa7op2ekbbd6s8u12ut(a)4ax.com... >> >>>On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:02:09 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "William Black" >>><william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> arranged some electrons, so they looked >>>like this: >> >> >>>... My wife needs a Schengen visa to visit Schengen countries. >>> >>>The wife of a french man won't need it. >>> >>>... She has a UK residential visa. >>> >>>Sign the Schengen agreements! >>> >>>(Like that's gonna happen in my lifetime...) >> >> >> I wish. >> >> And the Euro as well. >> >> I can't get my head around people who think that having your own currency >> is a good thing for no very good reason except some sort of fear. >> >> The only people who make money are the banks, who actually manage to tax >> people for having the temerity to want to spend money abroad... >> > > The problem is that the loss of a separate currency results in a great > deal of loss of the ability to manage your own economy. > > It is not clear that the advantages are more than minor. > Actually that explanation only applies if you're the chancellor. For normal people there are advantages and no down side. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea.
From: William Black on 28 May 2007 05:51 "Mister Bartlett" <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:1hytdjx.8u84u12mnmkaN%me2(a)privacy.net... > William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> > Yep - fear of being taxed in the UK to pay for financial mismanagement >> > in, say, Greece. >> >> I'm afraid you're going to have to explain how a common currency will >> cause >> that. > > Because a UK Chancellor can no longer manipulate the UK economy by > changing interest rates, the impact of (say) inflationary action in > (say) Greece is felt directly in the UK where it can only be controlled > by taxation. At present there are 2 levers on the UK economy. In > Euroland there is only one. And in what way, for example, is that making any continental country worse off than the UK? -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea.
From: William Black on 28 May 2007 05:52 "Mister Bartlett" <me2(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:1hytdps.1sj676mookw89N%me2(a)privacy.net... > William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> "Martin" <me(a)address.invalid> wrote in message >> news:b9tj53pi67trkl3kmsherdmcq255hr1e6h(a)4ax.com... >> > On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:02:24 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, >> > _the_ >> > chancellor (*)) wrote: >> > >> >>William Black <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >> >>> "Magda" <magda(a)eu> wrote in message >> >>> news:efej53hrpbafjqmqa7op2ekbbd6s8u12ut(a)4ax.com... >> >>> > On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:02:09 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "William >> >>> > Black" >> >>> > <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> arranged some electrons, so they >> >>> > looked >> >>> > like >> >>> > this: >> >>> >> >>> > ... My wife needs a Schengen visa to visit Schengen countries. >> >>> > >> >>> > The wife of a french man won't need it. >> >>> > >> >>> > ... She has a UK residential visa. >> >>> > >> >>> > Sign the Schengen agreements! >> >>> > >> >>> > (Like that's gonna happen in my lifetime...) >> >>> >> >>> I wish. >> >>> >> >>> And the Euro as well. >> >>> >> >>> I can't get my head around people who think that having your own >> >>> currency is >> >>> a good thing for no very good reason except some sort of fear. >> >> >> >>You should remember that not everyone who has the euro now thinks it >> >>was >> >>a great thing- it definitely put up prices in much of Europe, and not >> >>everyone in Europe is travelling all the time. >> > >> > So what put up prices in UK? >> >> Greed? >> >> Prices here are noticeably higher than in most of the rest of Europe. > > Really? I haven't noticed that. You should try pricing some cars. -- William Black I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach Time for tea.
From: jeremyrh.geo on 28 May 2007 05:54
On May 28, 11:51 am, "William Black" <william.bl...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > "Mister Bartlett" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote in message > > news:1hytdjx.8u84u12mnmkaN%me2(a)privacy.net... > > > William Black <william.bl...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > >> > Yep - fear of being taxed in the UK to pay for financial mismanagement > >> > in, say, Greece. > > >> I'm afraid you're going to have to explain how a common currency will > >> cause > >> that. > > > Because a UK Chancellor can no longer manipulate the UK economy by > > changing interest rates, the impact of (say) inflationary action in > > (say) Greece is felt directly in the UK where it can only be controlled > > by taxation. At present there are 2 levers on the UK economy. In > > Euroland there is only one. > > And in what way, for example, is that making any continental country worse > off than the UK? It potentially makes all of the richer ones worse off than they otherwise might have been. B; |