Strong sterling and UK prices have vacation Britons fleeing to the continent

Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 21:25 UTC

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Soaring sterling rates are giving Britons and Gibraltarians as much as 14% more cash for their summer 2012 trips to Euro Europe compared with last year, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. Read full article

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UK in strong currency shocker!

This isn't much of a story except to show how highly valued the UK currency is as per usual......
Apr 24th, 2012 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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BritishguyfromLondon
This is kind of a middle finger in the face to all of the Argie posters (Malvinero1 I'm looking at you) who claim that Britain is finished and our economy is going down the toilet... YEAH RIGHT!!! Britain's currency is strong, and our economy is recovering, quite unlike the Peso and the Argentine economy, which is so far down the toilet that it's screams can't even be heard anymore...
Apr 24th, 2012 - 09:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
No no its not true,
malvino says we are bankrupt,
The Argies say we are bankrupt, and CFK think we are finished,
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Still, the truth always did benefit us, while shaming the fools, did it not .
Apr 24th, 2012 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GreekYoghurt
This story makes me want to go to Istanbul again, “Where the moonlight on the Bosphorus is irresistible?”... Ah, the joys of Turkey.
Apr 24th, 2012 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Teaboy2
Malviner is right in away - As we can not afford to build any more man or war ships for our navy as we simply do not have enough trees to supply the wood needed to build man of war ships.

Oh well, thank god for the strong pound and the fact it only costs a few billion here or there to build modern steel ships and air craft carriers, oh and not forgetting purchasing the F35's (which ever type we get) and the building of the astute class subs. At least whilst where spending our pounds we can save up all the wood we have in the tree bank!
Apr 25th, 2012 - 07:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rufus
@5 Teaboy

It's an even older problem than that, back in the hundred years war England almost wiped out the Yew tree (which was the best for making longbows) to the extent that import taxes were levied in yew staves rather than money.
While the Yew population has never really truly recovered, the modern longbow (as in the fire control radar on the Apache AH1) doesn't need sliced tree anymore, so that will allow more time for them.
Apr 25th, 2012 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Teaboy2
@4 - That is so true too. Next the argentines will be accusing us of not being enviromentally friendy!
Apr 25th, 2012 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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