April 9th, 2008

Pound Plunging Means Europhiles Rejoice

This chart makes europhiles moist with excitement…A lot of eurosceptics have a nightmare scenario in which the plunging pound reaches parity with euro. At this point, they believe, swapping pounds for euros would be easier for the political class to sell to fundamentally eurosceptical British voters. It is no big deal the europhiles will claim, “prices will remain unchanged”.
The pound has now plunged to an all-time low against the euro, it bought €1.50 last year and now buys €1.25. At this rate of decline sterling could easily hit parity before the next general election. So a by-product of UK inflation getting out of control, growth faltering and house prices slumping could be joining the European Monetary Union and anchoring our economy to the Bundesbank. You have been warned…

Talking of warnings, only on Saturday Gordon was pontificating that the IMF needed to become “an early warning system”, well yesterday the IMF warned UK house prices could fall 10% this year. Got that Gordon?


Advertise on this site



Dom Joly Recall your MP, today!
TFather's Day 21st June


Keith Porter wrote to the Telegraph

SIR – Now that Gordon Brown’s administration is to take over the East Coast main line should the 10am King’s Cross to Edinburgh be renamed The Lying Scotsman?



Flat – no positions
As at 1543 GMT 25 June 2009 +30.86
- GILTS (SEP)
As at 0824 GMT 16 June 2009
Flat – no positions
As at 1406 GMT 1 June 2009 +63.56%
- GILTS (SEP)
As at 0911 GMT 29 May 2009
Flat – no positions
As at 1841 GMT 27 May 2009 +57.46%


Tip off Guido
Web Guido's Archives



AddThis Feed Button
Archive



Labels
Guido Reads