Starmer's vision quest
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Dorset Boy
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The pound was worth around 1.21 euros at the start of 2025. It's now closer to 1.13.
Perhaps if you used the time frame I referred to and not some different time frame, I might reconsider what I think of your reply! And I made no reference to the dollar.
Surprised you haven't used a 20 year period to justify your response tbh.
briantrumpet
Squire
C R
Guru
You and your facts.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
Dorset Boy
Active Member
And he's the most relevant one to the time frame I was talking about.
so you can stop mixing up your apples and your pears.
I know you are finding it particularly difficult to criticise the party you voted in at the GE.
so you can stop mixing up your apples and your pears.
I know you are finding it particularly difficult to criticise the party you voted in at the GE.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
Absolutely, but when one person states one time frame and the response is a completely different one .............................
because the replier has difficulty accepting any criticism of the party they voted in,
or people having different views to themselves.
briantrumpet
Squire
Try actually looking at the rest of the thread. It's like Pross said, you don't seem to see any of the criticism I or anyone else has written on this very thread. I'm not going to go back and quote every one I've done, as they are there for you to read. Frankly, it's a bit bizarre.
briantrumpet
Squire
I'll leave others to decide whether the 6-month time frame or 20-year is cherry picking.
All uphill
Senior Member
Relatively weak pound equals more competitive exports and a slight squeeze on imports and holidays abroad.
It's almost as if the government knows what it's doing.
It's almost as if the government knows what it's doing.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
This was my comment to which you responded with graphs of the £ vs $ and Euro over a 5 year and then a 20 year time horizon:
Brian, the pound is significant;y down against the Euro since Starmer and Reeves came to power.
briantrumpet
Squire
FWIW, this would be cherry picking
But if you look at the 20-year graph, it puts it in context that the peak of roughly 1.40 just before (I remember it, as I bought a load of Euros then) was an anomaly post-2008 crash, when it almost got to parity with the Euro. Since then, its normal range seems to have been in the 1.15ish kind of area, with inevitable fluctuations either side of that.
But if you look at the 20-year graph, it puts it in context that the peak of roughly 1.40 just before (I remember it, as I bought a load of Euros then) was an anomaly post-2008 crash, when it almost got to parity with the Euro. Since then, its normal range seems to have been in the 1.15ish kind of area, with inevitable fluctuations either side of that.
spen666
Über Member
Isn't that a bit of spin - weak pound is boost for exports ( no quantification on level of boost0, but only has slight effect on imports?
Rusty Nails
Country Member
Short term time frames mean less than long term trends. In any one year you can see annual rises or falls, but the important issue is the long term direction over the period of a government.
