To be shocked and horrified by the shit exchange rate?

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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 🙄

@cottonwoolsnowmen. Mmmmm no! We are so NOT in control of anything!

There will be riots if this goes ahead. That mop headed muppet won’t be able to see it through.

Both shocked and horrified? You don’t get out much do you?

Oh goodie.

Another anti-brexit thread.

YAWN

So when the £ was high against the Euro that was totally fine because? It was ok so our holidays were cheaper for us? Fuck the people who had the Euro coz it meant our £ was worth more?

Bloody hell, can someone get me my selfish diary because there's some notes to self I need to pencil in (only visit Europe when Europeans are suffering because the £ gets more bang for my buck).

There are people who have never been anywhere forrin ever. Next you will be moaning that you DC's will miss out on Erasmus. Welcome to the real world - maybe not being able to afford to go on holiday will help you understand how half the country have been feeling for years.

So we'll all be trapped on this island being miserable together. Super! Can't wait.

Well, give us the reasons to make it a Pro Brexit thread, bluegirlgreen.

Will you lot stop talking about the 52% of the population that voted for this in such a vile way.
There are reasons why people voted.
The government allowed this vote, knowing what the response could be. Anger should be directed at them, and them only, not the general population who at that time felt that they had voted correctly.
I feel so desperately sad that an overwhelming number of people on here find it okay to disparage their fellow countrymen for voting in a legal way.
You all sound very vindictive over a population decision. However you view it, the Leave population won. We do just have to suck it up and hope things will improve, otherwise what’s the point in complaining?

Another anti-brexit thread

We see what the 'brexit' is.

Many of us do.

@Saffronesque, the situation you describe is not unusual. In recent years around half of UK medical students are not entering junior doctor training programmes after graduating because they are already so disillusioned. Hospital doctors work crazy hours, but are not allowed to fill in their time sheets correctly, because if they do the hospital will get fined. They are paid far less than doctors in most countries in relation to the cost of living and other comparable professions. Gone are the days when a doctor could afford a nice family house, two annual holidays and 3 children to independent schools. Doctors don't even get parking provided at most hospitals - they have to pay the same fee that visitors pay. Add to that the incredible pressure they are under and you start to realise they are angels with a strong sense of vocation, giving their expertise with grace despite a complete lack of official recognition of the value of their work. The NHS would collapse without their dedication.

Going abroad is not compulsory

For the cost of a cheap ferry crossing, it's always better than staying in the UK.

Maybe should have stayed in UK if you can’t afford to go on holiday in France, it’s always been fairly expensive there.

I repeat - and this is not anti-Brexit, this is fact -

The thing that seriously pisses me off is people saying, let's just go no-deal & get it over with....

Do people not understand that there will be YEARS of negotiations ahead, and we will be in -expensive -limbo till trade agreements & whatnot are sorted out.

We are in for a very bumpy ride. Good for you if you voted for no-deal, crap exchange rate, medicine, food & water shortages -j ust check the govt's official advice, please - but I do NOT believe that anyone actually voted for this. They voted for taking back their sovereignity etc etc, NOT recession, riots & racism. I hope.

There are people who have never been anywhere forrin ever. Next you will be moaning that you DC's will miss out on Erasmus. Welcome to the real world - maybe not being able to afford to go on holiday will help you understand how half the country have been feeling for years.

And to be serious, I don't see how making both middle and working class people poorer through Brexit helps anyone. There will just be more poverty, not more empathy.

Swedish, don’t get me wrong, I agree but this “oh the exchange rate is bad” is just OTT. If you can’t afford it then don’t go. Last year it was about 1.12 now it’s around 1.08. So rather than spending £500 on holiday I might spend £520. I spend more than that difference in the airport bar.

Hateisnotgood Was just thinking about posting along those same lines, your paragraph below just sums up the whole thread for me(and did also give me a bit of a chuckle)

Bloody hell, can someone get me my selfish diary because there's some notes to self I need to pencil in (only visit Europe when Europeans are suffering because the £ gets more bang for my buck).

Sorry guys, guess it sucks to be you right now and I really do sympathize since I’m in the USA and family members from there who usually visit me can’t afford to come this year. On the plus side I’m planning to visit the UK early on in the New Year and for once it should be reasonably affordable and I may be able to stay longer than I normally do. I just bought $2000 worth of sterling just in case the pound rises again before then, it can’t really fall much more surely?

@Genevieva - I agree with every word you say. I have the greatest admiration for those who are the backbone of our NHS. And all I am saying is that Brexit is making it that much harder for our creaking, but so much admired, NHS to work.

So many NHS workers returning to their country of origin. So many British NHS workers throwing in the towel, going to work for big pharma, legal firms, starting again, anything - it breaks my heart.

PP mentioned 100,000 visas for Indians to come over in return for a trade deal. I'm not sure how many will come when they read the racist stuff that dominates the Daily Mail & The Telegraph and others, or when fellow expats report back that they are regularly told to Go Home (& worse) whist at work. Few will be grateful that they and others will keep the NHS from sinking.

Go to Netto. Buy the Spanish rosé in the bag in box things. About 6€ for 5 litres. We are French and it's our preferred rosé.

France used to be cheap in the 80s. We used to go for a whole month every summer, because it was the only time my father could take off work. We stayed in rundown rural cottages, swam in rivers, mooched around markets buying fresh produce, local bread, pastries, straw hats... and drinking Orangina in cafés. Many of the older locals still used the old pre-Napoleonic ancienne measurement system. The weather seemed to have a fairly steady cycle of pressure building up until there was a thunderstorm approximately every 5 days. It was heaven.

@teachermam
At least you'll get more tourists in uk

Not from Europe, they are staying away. Big drop in EU visitors to London this March/April when Brexit was first due, and early signs it's the same for October/November - not just holidaymakers but incentive groups
corporates, school groups. Tourism industry struggling to recruit too, EU workers not staying, new ones not arriving and funnily enough UK workers don't appear keen to clean hotel rooms for the NMW.

But it's all going to be fine. All this talk of recession is just Project Fear. We're taking back control and we'll be rolling in dosh when we don't have to give it to the EU.

It's not really about the cost of a holiday is it?

£:$ rate worsens for us, makes our goods cheaper for the US -or Europe or Asia or wherever.

So they can afford to buy 20% more cars from us. Hurray, exports are rising! BUT we still have to build the 20% more cars. We just don't get any more money. We are paying for the components of those 20% more cars - they cost us more.

So the exchange rate worsening for us COSTS us as a country.

Lovely echo chamber you’ve got here.

@DropZoneOne if it is any consolation there are loads of EU visitors where I live. There have been increasing numbers for the last few years. I don't think it is Brexit related - I think tourists all over the world are becoming more independent and making choices they might not have thought of before. It helps that Britain exports some excellent television set in beautiful parts of the UK.

I was out in Manchester this afternoon. The country doesn’t seem like being on the verge of ruin. The bars and restaurants were hammered. For every person that worries about this sort of thing, there are 50 that don’t.