I’ve just got back from Ireland, Dublin to be precise, and I’ve had a terrible shock. The Euro was stronger than the pound! Now if you’re like me then reading this probably means nothing. I read stuff about the current economic world trade or whatever and thought ‘Oh dear’, however it wasn’t until I experienced a bad exchange rate personally that I fully appreciated the seriousness of the situation. Almost dying of starvation wasn’t the worst of it, I couldn’t even get drunk! In Dublin for f*cks sake. I stayed in the Guinness Storehouse’s taster section for hours just to get a mild buzz. They were really good about it too, we were blatantly taking the piss but no one seemed to mind.

A local told me that things have always been more expensive in Ireland and that going to London has always been fun for them because everything was so much cheaper. London cheaper???

So let’s not join the Euro, I’ve never really had an opinion on currency change before but I’d prefer for things to remain priced as they are.

But then can the pound bounce back? Can the Euro bounce back for that matter? Clever economists seem sure that things will bounce back because they always do. A cycle I know little about but am aware of. However, I still can’t see how the pound is going to bounce back, can you? Britain is a mainly (in terms of business and industry as I understand it) now a middleman right? What I mean is we have no industries of our own to fall back on, we don’t generate or produce stuff anymore. So what are we gonna do? I’m sure the answer is obvious if you’re an economist but I don’t see it.

Plus, has anyone else noticed the climate changing? Of course you have. Longer, colder winters are going to be followed by the hotter and hotter summers which is going to devastate the ecological balance in this country and cause billions of pounds worth of damage. It has already! How the hell are we gonna turn all this around now? The timing couldn’t be better and it’s enough to turn me fanatical. Thank goodness I’ve read at least three books otherwise I’d be ignorant and easily led. 

So still I’m confused. Is the euro struggling as much as the pound? Will changing the currency mean I’ll have to pay three times more for chocolate? I think I’ll read more about it then agree with everyone else when the time to decide if a change is in order comes.

The Euro. Fancy coinage no?