comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted 27 seconds ago
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A free market is great but when the currency has been reduced in value by circa 20%, it matters not where you import from. In the short term businesses may be able to absorb some of these costs. But unless the pound starts to improve there’s very little UK businesses can do.

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The pound will improve. This isn't the first time it has dipped. Currency is always fluctuating. We're still the 5th biggest economy in the EU.

Sure, in the short term we might suffer. However, it's quite naive to think that the pound won't recover in the medium term.

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Then it's about time we did something else.

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Such as? Please enlighten us. You're clearly well versed in how the global economy functions...

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The Lambeau Leap

What do think will make the pound increase, as nearly all economists/forecasters expect it to fall further unless there is political stability?

comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted 53 seconds ago
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What do think will make the pound increase, as nearly all economists/forecasters expect it to fall further unless there is political stability?

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Political stability

Maybe worth noting that consumers will probably see only see a 5% increase in their shopping bills in relation to import costs. Which isn’t that much.

But when petrol/transportation costs are factored, (3/5p a litre a the end of this month) will also add to the amount we pay for things in the shops.

There will also be the inevitable profiteering by business, over playing circumstances.

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comment by sᴉɥƃuǝlפ (U19365)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Better Call Zlatan - Football taught by Matt Busby(U11781)
posted 35 minutes ago
Luckily I don't eat any of those types of food
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How about:
Walls, Carte D'or, Viennetta, Knorr, Bovril, Colman's, PG Tips, Hellmann's, Ben & Jerry's, Flora, Bertolli, Magnum to name a few more.

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So people will have to pick a new favourite ice cream. Choose a better tea than PG tips (basically any tea currently on the market in the world). And make their own mayo for their BLT's. Feck me the future is a bleak one.

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comment by He's MAGIC you know, Mauricio Pochettinooooo (U20915)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted 53 seconds ago
The Lambeau Leap

What do think will make the pound increase, as nearly all economists/forecasters expect it to fall further unless there is political stability?

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Political stability
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Art 50 scheduled for March 2017. Up to two years to sever ties with the EU. As seen in Westminster, there isn’t political unity with any of the leading parties, never mind parliament. And won’t be until we have finally left the EU. Circa 2019.

comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by sᴉɥƃuǝlפ (U19365)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Better Call Zlatan - Football taught by Matt Busby(U11781)
posted 35 minutes ago
Luckily I don't eat any of those types of food
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How about:
Walls, Carte D'or, Viennetta, Knorr, Bovril, Colman's, PG Tips, Hellmann's, Ben & Jerry's, Flora, Bertolli, Magnum to name a few more.

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So people will have to pick a new favourite ice cream. Choose a better tea than PG tips (basically any tea currently on the market in the world). And make their own mayo for their BLT's. Feck me the future is a bleak one.
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comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? (U3126)
posted 1 minute ago
The Lambeau Leap

What do think will make the pound increase, as nearly all economists/forecasters expect it to fall further unless there is political stability?

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In the short term (by which I mean,between now and 2019) I fully expect it to slump. That's only natural given the uncertainty over what a post-Brexit UK economy will look like.

However, once the negotiations are over and it becomes clear that the UK will still have strong trade links with the EU, as well as freedom to negotiate other global trade deals, we will see it steadily creep back up.

The IMF has predicted that Britain will be the fastest growing G7 economy in 2016 and 2017. It's not all doom and gloom.

PG tips are awful

All about yorkshire tea

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comment by Cal Neva (U11544)
posted 40 seconds ago
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 16 seconds ago
comment by sᴉɥƃuǝlפ (U19365)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Better Call Zlatan - Football taught by Matt Busby(U11781)
posted 35 minutes ago
Luckily I don't eat any of those types of food
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How about:
Walls, Carte D'or, Viennetta, Knorr, Bovril, Colman's, PG Tips, Hellmann's, Ben & Jerry's, Flora, Bertolli, Magnum to name a few more.

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So people will have to pick a new favourite ice cream. Choose a better tea than PG tips (basically any tea currently on the market in the world). And make their own mayo for their BLT's. Feck me the future is a bleak one.
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Or you could shop at another supermarket.
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Unsure how shopping in another supermarket is going to help (possibly in the short term) as they all import from outside of the UK?

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But when one supplier is sidelined for what ever reason there is always someone to step in, a gap in the market is an opportunity to make lots of filthy money.

When article 50 is triggered the pound will fall even more.

Someone will make money out of it.

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