6 minutes ago, WillyPlatt said:

Unfortunately, i fear you may well be right.

It is highly likely that the new Tory leader may well be to the right of the party. That combined with a Marxist labour party, means that the lib dems will pick up a lot of middle ground votes.

Add Farage to the mix and we have a completely split electorate.

A friend of mine, a 30 year veteran of Thailand, remembers it touching 38 briefly.

I don't think people realise the gravity of the situation, the biggest peace time crisis the UK has seen.

We now face a summer of leadership elections and the speculators could have a field day with sterling.

For a large number of UK retirees and regular visitors, things are going to get very expensive.

The snide attitude of one poster beggars belief.

The pound in baht? Try 28 briefly in 1985. It was also up to 90 in early 1998. No Brexit required. Just to show you what can happen. No joy in this message. Affects me too. 

 

Grave situation? Yes but for different reasons. The EU is not the status quo. The EU continues to mutate into a centralized superstate. This is why leavers really want to get out asap.

 

 

 

5 hours ago, WillyPlatt said:

It means everything in relation to Brexit.

Before brexit 55 baht, after brexit 40 baht.

I hope your accounts department have a better grasp of basic economics.

Why do you care about the future of the UK?

Are you a true ex pat or one that has hedged his bets with assets still in the UK?

Your defensive stance would indicate the latter.

 

The US dollar and the Euro have also dropped 10% against the baht in the same time period, not as much, but still significant. The Thai baht is strong.

 

12 hours ago, malagateddy said:

The eu europhiles in brussels work by the ratchet method..a little bit at a time.
What do you think the various treaties were about..eg..the lisbon treaty..were they only there for a game if 5 a side footie and a piss up???

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They must be the only politicians in history (apart from possibly Hitler and his 1000-Year Reich), to work on a 75+ year timescale.

Maastricht, Lisbon etc. were intended to remove some of the barriers separating people and nations. Ask yourself which is better, "ever closer union of the people" or "ever further separation of the people".

3 minutes ago, Stupooey said:

They must be the only politicians in history (apart from possibly Hitler and his 1000-Year Reich), to work on a 75+ year timescale.

Maastricht, Lisbon etc. were intended to remove some of the barriers separating people and nations. Ask yourself which is better, "ever closer union of the people" or "ever further separation of the people".

Europe united under German rule sounds like the EU to me, explain why you excluded Hitler?.

5 hours ago, nkg said:

The US dollar and the Euro have also dropped 10% against the baht in the same time period, not as much, but still significant. The Thai baht is strong.

Aussie dollar has dropped 33%, guess they're leaving the EU too.

11 hours ago, Loiner said:

There does not appear to be many of them on this forum though, given the amount of Remainer wails about the pound. As 'proper' expats are more likely to be specialists, managers and businessmen used to dealing in the big wide world, rather than stay at home europhiles, your Younger/Remainer assumption may not actually be the case.

"Stay at home europhiles" seems like an oxymoron to me. Surely Europhilia is all about freedom of movement, whereas Euroscepticism implies raising the drawbridge and filling the moat.

Certainly all the 'proper' expats, as you call them, of my acquaintance are staunch Remainers.