Ha ha ! Rusty`s went off on one.....you tell em mate .....Rule Britania. Anyway the guy from Ireland is only asking the question. We do appear very Un European in a lot of ways I admit..........It`s cos we`re British..lol. I`m over in Old Ireland every year and have always done well on exchange apart from one or two years.There were years they were chargin for a pound to give you a Punt. It`s still good value for money over there ......apart from Dublin maybe. You could say the same about London
Anyway grinders........... don`t buy a blue Bosch. I`ve been using my Chinese made one ......crap in feel and poor switch.
Alex
Thanks for a balanced view, I suppose its just a different way of looking at things, punt pound parity happened quite a lot back in the day, they were originally the same currency so were closer related that the £ Stg and €
I think people are mislead by the fact that £ 1 is "worth" more than € 1.
Fact is that if the UK were to swap to € overnight that nobody would loose any money, if you had 100k stg today you would have €133,786 tomorrow, but a house that would have cost 100k stg yesterday would be €133,786 tomorrow, nothing has changed but the numbers, one 'unit' is worth less, but you get paid more 'units' per hour, so it all balances out.