I voted out, but it still seems quite shocking this morning. It's all kicking off, shares & the pound going down the plughole, but it'll all calm down in the next few months, & nothing going to happen for a few years (it could be over a year before we sign the papers & then it's two years after that). I think we'll be fine in the long run, I'm not so sure about the EU.
Oh & importing soundtracks from America is going to be more expensive until the pound starts rising.
Watch other Western European countries follow suit - and then we can go back to a trading agreement without the expensive and un-asked-for bureaucratic mission-creep.
Phew, nearly mentioned politics there but I think I got away with it.
Watch other Western European countries follow suit - and then we can go back to a trading agreement without the expensive and un-asked-for bureaucratic mission-creep.
Yeah, because a disunified Europe has always worked out so well.
If this is supposed to be addressed to me, it's being cheerfully realistic that keeps me going, not being delusional and allowing emotions to rule the brain. There's a reason for the supremacy of reason over emotion.
Emotion over reason is what has just happened in the UK.
U.S. Dollar exchange rate is currently $1.37 to the Pound (or however one says that). That's just slightly higher than the Euro was when I visited the continent in 2014; it was $1.17 to the Euro this past spring when I was over.
The Pound was $1.50 or so when I visited my fellow footballers' great country in 2010.
I wonder who will still be "in the band" when I (hopefully) show up there next year...
