BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Anyway, more good news about 20mph limits. If you can tame Italian drivers, you're winning.

 

[Pinno718]

Like I said above, it's pointless argument - were not going to rejoin regardless of how much you stamp your feet or quote selective stats to support your 'Little European' viewpoint. Remember, the EU is less than 15% of the global economy amd gradually declining.

'Little European' viewpoint' !?! Why don't you be more condescending?

I never once in the previous posts suggested re-joining the EU.

 

[Pblakeney]

'Little European' viewpoint' !?! Why don't you be more condescending?

I never once in the previous posts suggested re-joining the EU.

When will the penny drop that you are wasting your time?

 

[AndyRM]

'Little European' viewpoint' !?! Why don't you be more condescending?

I never once in the previous posts suggested re-joining the EU.

Little European? Lol. It's only in the last 30 years that 'Muricans have ventured outside their own borders in any sort of numbers.

 

[Pinno718]

When will the penny drop that you are wasting your time?

Well, I am collating screenplay material for the sequel: 'About Schmidt's cousin'.

 

[briantrumpet]

Blimey, £ v € is taking a bit of a hit - under 1.16 this morning. Glad I stocked up at 1.20.

 

[C R]

Blimey, £ v € is taking a bit of a hit - under 1.16 this morning. Glad I stocked up at 1.20.

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Dolar looking a tad wobbly too

 

[CXRAndy]

Hardly earthquake movement from a peak of around 1.21 to low 1.165

3.8% down.

I thought you'd be saying something like 40% drop 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

Dolar looking a tad wobbly too
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Is it that traders are connecting the $ and £ because Starmer is still pretending that a trade deal with Trump is worth clinging onto?

 

[First Aspect]

Blimey, £ v € is taking a bit of a hit - under 1.16 this morning. Glad I stocked up at 1.20.

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Suspect the dollar will drop in value though, which is more helpful generally.

 

[C R]

Is it that traders are connecting the $ and £ because Starmer is still pretending that a trade deal with Trump is worth clinging onto?

Possibly.

 

[C R]

Hardly earthquake movement from a peak of around 1.21 to low 1.165

3.8% down.

I thought you'd be saying something like 40% drop 😉

Now we know what happened to this guy

 

[Dorset Boy]

With the more favourable tariff situation you would expect the pound to strengthen vs the euro, whereas it is weakening.
That said, I had a friend who was a curency trader, got pretty rich, was a very clever guy, but he said he never really understood the currency market, it often didn't make any sense!

 

[Pinno718]

Dolar looking a tad wobbly too
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A 'tad'? LMAO.

I think it's got bit to go.
We should set a date for 2040 say and see if we can buy the US or annexe it. Might be a bit of a basket by then.
Hispanics due to outnumber the USainian 'indigenous' population by 2050. Then it should be renamed the United States of Mexico but just hope they don't start deporting white drug cartel member rapists like the KKK or the Boogaloo boyz back to Europe/UK.
Send them to Rwanda I say.

 

[briantrumpet]

With the more favourable tariff situation you would expect the pound to strengthen vs the euro, whereas it is weakening.
That said, I had a friend who was a curency trader, got pretty rich, was a very clever guy, but he said he never really understood the currency market, it often didn't make any sense!

Yeah, that was what surprised me... I hadn't looked for a week or two, so the drop surprised me, with no apparent extra alarm bells ringing specifically for the UK. Maybe the markets are just spooked a bit by Starmer's fence-sitting and trying desperately not to sound EU-friendly economically.