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To be shocked and horrified by the shit exchange rate?

256 replies

BrexitBingoGenerator · 03/08/2019 19:55

Thanks Boris.

We are in France this week- it’s cost us over 80 quid to fill the car and our food shops are extortionate. A bag of oranges was nearly £5 and it cost £50 for three of us to go to the waterpark. A Belgian family there said that they have just come back from Britain and stocked up on shoes, clothes and even Christmas presents for their family because the euro to sterling exchange rate is now so good (for them, not for us).
Everything seems so much more expensive than this time last year- is this what we are to expect now?

Living the brexit - brink dream 🙄

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ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/08/2019 20:36

Not a fan of Boris, but this is not only on him.

It's the shit Leavers voted for and we're all getting now.

teachermam · 03/08/2019 20:38

First time in years there is a good rate against the pound

gamesanddaisychains · 03/08/2019 20:39

France is expensive for the French. Why do you think the 'yellow jackets' have been striking for months, and why there is so much civil unrest there ? My German vet (we take our dogs on holiday) says it's a matter of time for Germany too.

Alsohuman · 03/08/2019 20:39

And who persuaded them to vote for it? Oh, that would be Boris.

Manno75 · 03/08/2019 20:39

Going abroad is not compulsory.

Unhomme · 03/08/2019 20:39

On a positive note, UK exports will go up and our tax revenues will improve. This will then lead to a strengthening of the pound.

MagicErmintrude · 03/08/2019 20:40

I'm no Boris fan, but are people just ignoring the fact that prices increased in France earlier this year, and petrol in particular is very expensive?

teachermam · 03/08/2019 20:40

At least you'll get more tourists in urk

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/08/2019 20:41

Going abroad is not compulsory.

True, but eating isn't exactly avoidable and most of out food is imported.

chipsandgin · 03/08/2019 20:42

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Hazardtired · 03/08/2019 20:42

Wait. We're meant be more half full. Johnson said so. So at least 48% of people who voted are not twats. This is a positive.

Grin
Justaboy · 03/08/2019 20:42

Well why did you go there to Froggieland?

I ask you why not vist the UK?, i mean whats wrong with going to Bognor?.

timshelthechoice · 03/08/2019 20:43

On a positive note, UK exports will go up and our tax revenues will improve. This will then lead to a strengthening of the pound.

Oh, yeah, especially with no-deal and having to use WTO regulations, those are so great for trade, since we're such a big exporter of goods, too, and with spending curtailed because the cost of all the imports we use to live increases Hmm.

StoneofDestiny · 03/08/2019 20:45

Well Boris and Rees Mogg and the rest wont be affected with their millions in the bank and the fact their wealth was shifted overseas a considerable time ago. They are benefitting from this.

Lougle · 03/08/2019 20:46

It's not that bad. We went to Spain and France last year. 1 £ was worth 1.12 € then. It's worth 1.09 € now.

As for "£50 to get in to a water park for 3". I took DD3 to a water park this week in the UK and it was £15 each. Similarly, we went to an indoor flume park today and it was £16 each, so £50 for 3 over there is about the same.

spottydog34 · 03/08/2019 20:46

Imagine owning a company that buys millions of pounds of goods in euros and dollars.

That price rise isn't going to be absorbed. It's going to be pushed straight to the public.

MaybeitsMaybelline · 03/08/2019 20:46

Why the suprise? Not like it happened overnight

StoneofDestiny · 03/08/2019 20:47

Yep, Boris, the mindless xenophobes and all the lobotomised fools he convinced with his bus of lies. Absolute fucking small minded cunts the lots of them. Not to mention that potato headed pig fucking moron Cameron. I wonder how long some of them will carry on sticking their head in the sand before taking responsibility for the massive clusterfuck unfolding before us all

😂😂 hysterical laughter because it's so true

SusieOwl4 · 03/08/2019 20:47

if you are a british company importing at the moment its very bad times . If it does not improve we will have to probably consider cutting staff .

StoneofDestiny · 03/08/2019 20:48

Why the suprise? Not like it happened overnight

Like most nightmares do!

woman19 · 03/08/2019 20:49

True, but eating isn't exactly avoidable and most of out food is imported
Exactly. And medicine and cancer treating isotopes.

Still, on the upside, men like Johnson's funder
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6324769/Boris-Johnsons-leadership-bid-bankrolled-hedge-fund-manager.html
Cripin Odey have made a killing ( unfortunate metaphor really when we look at what the brexit has already done) out of the collapsing english pound.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-18/brexiteer-odey-renews-hedge-fund-s-reviled-bet-on-pound-plunging

Still........ blue passports. Smile

Justanotherlurker · 03/08/2019 20:50

Looks like all the critical thinkers are out in force tonight.

PinkiOcelot · 03/08/2019 20:50

The exchange rate has been 1:1 in the past (2010 and 2014 I think). Should we blame that on brexit?!

HouseworkAvoider10 · 03/08/2019 20:51

YANBU.
But you've had a good run for a while now.
The UK is generally a good bit cheaper than some countries in Western Europe.

Caucho · 03/08/2019 20:53

I’ve already found it a bit arrogant for people thinking when they go to another country everything is ‘cheaper’ and we can lord it somewhat. Welcome to the real world. I’ve been to many places when the exchange rates were far more favourable and you sometimes did think it’s great as you can buy this that or the other for only x £. I heard people complaining Thailand was expensive as it cost £2 for a beer. It’s actually a sign of progress for most nations if their currency strengthens to the degree that people aren’t spraying notes around like confetti.

If you consider the alternative view it’s horrific that a medicine we take for granted costs a weeks wages to a person somewhere else