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Thread #35616   Message #486910
Posted By: Fiolar
19-Jun-01 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Should UK join the Euro ?
Subject: RE: BS: Should UK join the Euro ?
A certain amount of paranoia is already starting to show about Europe. What difference does it make what the currency in your pocket is called as long as one can buy the normal things of life. Again I think I have made the point before that most of the present inhabitants of the UK came from Europe in the first place. Go back to the 1720s and Britain was ruled by a German for God's sake. How many remember that the good old £/s/d (in the days before decimalisation) which most people thought stood for Pounds, shillings and pence really stood for Libera, solidii and denaraii and was a throw back to the Roman coinage. Does any one now remember the "groat" or the "guinea" and I wonder how many tears were shed when they disappeared. Most anti-European feeling in any case has been stirred up by the bottom feeders of the gutter press who use use headlines as "Up Yours Delors" to sell papers.