Is it time we joined the EU?

[Von Luck]

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[dirtydog]

I'm not convinced.

We'll see. I hope you are wrong for the sake of the country as I firmly believe joining would be a disaster.

 

[Burt]

There's one in the centre of Dundee as well, what's really odd is that there isn't an international airport here and any train/car travel to foreign climes is going to require travelling through a traditional port of exit so it seems spectacularly redundant.

Really? I lived in Dundee for (far too long). Whereabouts is it?

 

[Cryogenic]

Ask dvdbunny.

That's the 2nd time someone has mentioned this, I have no idea why I am being compared to him

 

[Dj_Jestar]

We'll see. I hope you are wrong for the sake of the country as I firmly believe joining would be a disaster.

I firmly agree.

 

[csmager]

The economy needs to be pretty damn close to what the Eurozone is doing, and sustainably - the ECB will set our interest rates if we join, not the Bank of England. It will do it for the benefit of the whole Eurozone, and not with just the UK's interests in mind. This could be a disaster. In the past, these two rates haven't been the same - or even that close.

 

[Cosimo]

Roll on the Euro, come on Gordo get on with it.

 

[Squark]

Roll on the Euro, come on Gordo get on with it.

I'd rather it rolled on by, I don't want it.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

I hope we stay well clear, and that in 5 or so years time when the pound has picked up again, that those who are here saying "Why haven't we joined already?" can look back and realise what a knee-jerk reaction it would have been to join it, and ultimately what an absolute failure it would have been.

 

[edgedemon]

No never!
Though if Europe wanted to apply to become part of the UK....

 

[semi-pro waster]

Really? I lived in Dundee for (far too long). Whereabouts is it?

At the back end of what used to be the Clydesdale Bank building, on the corner of Commercial Street and Murraygate, one of the shops in the building is a travel agents so I think it is linked to them.

 

[Stelly]

my god, we are already in the EU, sometimes I wonder about some of the members in thie forum!

Stelly

 

[leaskovski]

The economy needs to be pretty damn close to what the Eurozone is doing, and sustainably - the ECB will set our interest rates if we join, not the Bank of England. It will do it for the benefit of the whole Eurozone, and not with just the UK's interests in mind. This could be a disaster. In the past, these two rates haven't been the same - or even that close.

Whats the England Cricket Board got to do with this?

 

[Mulder]

If I could separate Britain joining the EU from the slow path to a European superstate then it might possibly be a good idea based on its merits alone. As I can't then it has to be bad.

 

[csmager]

Whats the England Cricket Board got to do with this?

Very funny.

Euopean Central Bank.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Whats the England Cricket Board got to do with this?

If that's a genuine question then I presume he means the European Central Bank, if it isn't a serious question then I'll take a whoosh please Bob.

 

[leaskovski]

I love being silly

 

[FrostedNipple]

I hope we don't get the Euro. Or if we do, we just change what the coins are worth, i.e. a 1p is not renamed, not redesigned. It is just re-assigned a new value of 1 Euro cent. £1 is exactly the same but its value is now €1. So we have the Euro, but we just use a different word for it.

It would be a sad day to be using coins with out the monarchs head on it.

 

[Raymond Lin]

The title should be edited to Should we join the European Currency.

 

[Raymond Lin]

please read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_states



membership of Euro, at the moment - no, monetary independence is useful, even if it will converge to 1...

and this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_Member_States_by_accession