Coronavirus: British Pound plunges to its lowest level in over 30 years

[sanemax]

44 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

But it was/is partnered to the EU unit on  epidemiological monitoring systems. The UK has already declined an EU suggestion it remains !

How would that effect the treatment of Corona in UK hospitals ?

[sanemax]

1 hour ago, CNXexpat said:

 
And yes, the EU can help the UK. But first it will help the members of the EU family. The UK decided to leave the family. 

How would the E.U have helped the UK ?

And you are saying that you now wont offer any help, because we left ?

[vogie]

Breaking News: Michel Barnier has the coronavirus.

[david555]

1 minute ago, vogie said:

Breaking News: Michel Barnier has the coronavirus.

And I can testify it is true, Vogie speaks the truth (once in a while???? ….lol 555)   It is NO fake news 

[Rookiescot]

10 minutes ago, vogie said:

Breaking News: Michel Barnier has the coronavirus.

He shall be healed by the Boris who will work one of his miracles upon him.

[shy coconut]

10 hours ago, deej said:

Tourism is not a important driver of GDP

Please go back to kindergarden

And you based your forecasts on Juanta export figures 

TBH 

Get Real

Without any facts and figures to support your rant, it just seems

more like wishful thinking.

[URMySunshine]

The money taps are really gushing now....

Every Briton could get cash payments from the government amid fears the coronavirus crisis could leave millions of people without jobs.

The extraordinary move is being considered by ministers as the scale of the economic meltdown the country faces becomes clear - with warnings that 'social distancing' measures could see GDP slump by 20 per cent and the hospitality sector effectively disappear.   

Boris Johnson suggested last night that a 'universal basic income' - or UBI - is among the options on the table to avoid families being plunged into poverty and mass unrest as UK plc grinds to a hal

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8128807/EVERY-Briton-paid-universal-basic-salary-regardless-means-coronavirus-cash-crisis.html

[CNXexpat]

13 minutes ago, sanemax said:

How would the E.U have helped the UK ?

And you are saying that you now wont offer any help, because we left ?

The UK health system is sick. There are only 6.6 beds per 100,000 citizens at the Intensive care units - less than Italy, Spain, France, etc. In Germany are 29.2 beds, in the US 34.7 beds. And then the UK made nurses and doctors from EU countries afraid that they have to leave the country so they left before they are kicked out. Perhaps also less tests arrived at the UK because border controls.

Yes, I am sure and I hope that the EU family will help the UK if they need help. But first they will help other family members in need. If you wanted to become divorced from your wife and later become sick in the same time with her sister, what do you think she will help first? The sister or you? She will have priorities for sure. 

[metisdead]

Off topic posts and the replies have been removed.

[bkk6060]

11 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The forthcoming British fire sale just got cheaper for the US.

Yeah really.

When I first went to UK it was around 1.8.

Seemed like 20 bucks for a bagel and coffee.

Sounds great now, but who the heck can/is going?

[pacovl46]

7 hours ago, nauseus said:

Er... no it isn't.

Right, my bad, but they’re almost equal. Not a good sign. 
 

1 Pounds as of today is 37.70 Baht. So, in a nutshell it lost almost  half its value in comparison to the Baht since 2003. 
 

 

Edited March 19, 2020 by pacovl46
Forgot something

[roo860]

39 minutes ago, vogie said:

Breaking News: Michel Barnier has the coronavirus.

Good!

[sanemax]

18 minutes ago, CNXexpat said:

. And then the UK made nurses and doctors from EU countries afraid that they have to leave the country so they left before they are kicked out.  

How many actually left ?

Many of the foreign NHS workers are Asian 

[Logosone]

Yes, Filipinas in particular. Another stroke of genius, since most  Filipinos basically send a sizeable part of their income back to the Philippines and this money does not contribute to the UK economy. It is basically taken out.

[Rookiescot]

23 minutes ago, sanemax said:

How many actually left ?

Many of the foreign NHS workers are Asian 

One of your mates on here has a thread running complaining that his friend can no longer get his Thai girlfriend a visa for the UK.

But this is what you voted for. Taking back control of our borders.

Its the will of the people.

Its democracy.

Its Brexit coming back to bite you all on the backside.

Still you all knew what you were voting for.

[TheDark]

1 hour ago, vogie said:

Breaking News: Michel Barnier has the coronavirus.

It's probably a good time to end all the EU-England negotiations altogether at this point.

 

 

[Dumbastheycome]

1 hour ago, sanemax said:

How would that effect the treatment of Corona in UK hospitals ?

I guess theoretically it should mean a combined strategy in response.

To date it seems to have failed .

I doubt it ever was intended  to share resources anyway.

[Number 6]

11 hours ago, shackleton said:

Surprised  not to hear from the Brexiteers saying  dont panic once we leave the European union 

The pound will rise back to the good old days of 50-60  baht

( I think not )

Yeah, because a virus escaping a Chinese biolab is so predictable...

 

[URMySunshine]

Up to a million are trying to come home.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/uk-battling-to-repatriate-hundreds-of-thousands-of-britons-says-dominic-raab-coronavrus

[david555]

Jon Henley Europe correspondent, and Kim Willsher

Thu 19 Mar 2020 12.08 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/france-may-refuse-entry-to-britons-if-no-strict-lockdown-is-imposed-in-uk-coronavirus

France may refuse entry to Britons if no strict lockdown is imposed in UK

French PM says UK citizens may not be allowed in as part of measures to fight coronavirus

 

France has warned it may start turning travellers from Britain away unless the UK adopts a similar near-total lockdown to those in place in other European countries.

 

With EU governments including Italy, Spain and France requiring citizens to stay at home to curb the coronavirus, and Rome threatening to tighten restrictions further, the French prime minister, Édouard Philippe, has said that if the UK does not follow suit soon, arrivals from Britain could be refused entry.

 

“Everyone in the EU must adopt logical methods and processes to fight against the epidemic,” Philippe said. “It’s obvious that if neighbouring states like the UK leave it too long, we would have difficulty allowing British citizens who are moving freely around their country to come to France.”

[Logosone]

Prominent Vote Leave campaigner Boris Johnson said "the pound is stable" and previously said the markets would be fine after Brexit.

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/simonneville/the-last-time-the-pound-was-this-weak-was-1985-heres-what-ha

[ivor bigun]

14 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

One of your mates on here has a thread running complaining that his friend can no longer get his Thai girlfriend a visa for the UK.

But this is what you voted for. Taking back control of our borders.

Its the will of the people.

Its democracy.

Its Brexit coming back to bite you all on the backside.

Still you all knew what you were voting for.

When my wife came to England Blair was in power and it was easy ,a few years later ,it became much harder ,nothing whatever to do with Brexit so stop banging on about Brexit .

[Rookiescot]

10 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

When my wife came to England Blair was in power and it was easy ,a few years later ,it became much harder ,nothing whatever to do with Brexit so stop banging on about Brexit .

Stop reminding us we have screwed the country up.

[ivor bigun]

4 minutes ago, Rookiescot said:

Stop reminding us we have screwed the country up.

No Blair ,Brown and the clowns in the Labour party screwed the country up ,now we were on the way to getting it back with Brexit ,

[Rookiescot]

8 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:

No Blair ,Brown and the clowns in the Labour party screwed the country up ,now we were on the way to getting it back with Brexit ,

Pound at its lowest level in 30 years but its Labours fault?

Who was in power 30 years ago? Thatcher.

Who is in power now? Johnson.

[bert bloggs]

14 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

One of your mates on here has a thread running complaining that his friend can no longer get his Thai girlfriend a visa for the UK.

But this is what you voted for. Taking back control of our borders.

Its the will of the people.

Its democracy.

Its Brexit coming back to bite you all on the backside.

Still you all knew what you were voting for.

Does he earn 18600 pounds a year? thats the wage he needs to support her ,nothing to do with Brexit ,so why bother even going on about it?,mind you if she was a ladyboy and jumped off a dingey on the coast ,she would be laughing .

[Rookiescot]

Just now, saengd said:

It's quite amazing you would try and use that argument, as if Boris or anyone else could have actually imagined, let alone foreseen the virus or the extent to which it has caused panic and financial meltdowns.

"If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by 'Brussels', but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure.

Why are we still, person for person, so much less productive than the Germans?

That is now a question more than a century old, and the answer is nothing to do with the EU."

 

Now you are probably wondering who it is I am quoting. The answer is Boris Johnson.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1257329/brexit-news-uk-eu-trade-talks-coronavirus-boris-johnson-spt

[saengd]

I agree with other posters, this thread is not about Brexit or Boris, let's leave i alone can we please.

[Logosone]

6 minutes ago, saengd said:

It's quite amazing you would try and use that argument, as if Boris or anyone else could have actually imagined, let alone foreseen the virus or the extent to which it has caused panic and financial meltdowns.

 

The fall of the pound is not due to the virus, the virus merely exacerbated the fall of the pound which began much earlier. However, Boris Johnson and his Brexit government are of course the only people who could have addressed the structural problems, such as excessive debt, which plague the UK economy and have led to a fall in the pound which is much worse and and much deeper than that of any other currency. 

 

Sadly for the Uk and its people, the only remedy the Brexit government could come up with is that of a 17 year old Liverpudlian, 'Let's increase the overdraft. Let the another generation pay for us'.

 

Unfortunately this Brexit government, rather than golden times ahead, will deliver nothing but misery to the British people. 

 

 

[Rimmer]

Multiple off topic posts and replies removed, for reminder:

 

Coronavirus: British Pound plunges to its lowest level in over 30 years