The people did indeed vote to leave. However, the politicians were simply not expecting that and hadn't made any contingency plans for that event! Hence resignations, votes for leadership, back stabbing, votes of no confidence, protests and pandemonium at Westminster. Not to mention the business and legal professions now nit picking over the who, what, why, when and how surrounding Article 50. The people voted leave. The (current) PM stated clearly the decision to leave stands. It will all unfold as soon as practicable once the legal/financial/business/political bods have sorted themselves out, put their nit combs away, wiped the grease off their palms and finished stabbing patting each other's backs. Chin Chin! (Please note that is English wine, grown in our very own vineyards in the Garden of England )
Doesn't have to be. I have a sneaking suspicion that after a period of European dummy spitting, the French,Italian,Portuguese and Spanish will realise that actually Britain is a nation of borderline alcoholics who really enjoy their wine and buy a lot of it.
That's a good point now that we are coming out of the EU does that mean we can go back £dp yards feet and inches and lbs and Oz not to mention getting rid of Litres on the car fuel and going back to good old Gallons
I hope not. I don't think we can blame the eu for us going metric. OK. I know they imposed it on us, but only because it was sensible to have a common system used all over the world, that is simple to work with.
I liked Pounds, shillings and pence, there's nothing complicated about it (fully expecting shiney et al to extol the virtues of farthings and groats ) I don't think the rest of the world is metric yet, the yanks still use imperial, but their imperial is different to ours (e.g. US Gallon /= UK Gallon). I bet Cameron is happy that Welsh Football and Andy Murray at Wimbledon are distracting people from Brexit. The Olympics will be coming up soon so maybe he can keep hiding till Teresa May takes over.
This reminds me of something completely unrelated. My grandad had a saying. If you'd had too much to drink and ended up with a hangover, he'd say 'did you have one over the eight last night?
@shiney whats the value of the Shineyland Groat against the Euro at the moment in Shineyland,and is the Essex pound holding its own against the Lilliput dollar
Excellent, more work for us ancient programmers who can still count over 10, reminds me of the daft wages paid during the Y2K panic - should be posting this in the positive thread
@wiseowl The Shineyland Groat is well sort after in Foreign Exchange circles The rate of exchange varies considerably depending on the IQ of the buyer. The other day I sold a Groat Mine to a visitor from the other side of the pond for $2,000. He understood that he mustn't let anyone know because we're not supposed to sell them to non-UK citizens. I don't really know about the Essex Pound as it's not accepted in Shineyland.
I remember earning quite a lot from overtime in the lead up to y2k. As with many companies, our managers failed to comprehend the issue. Until about 12 weeks before, when we finally convinced them that the software that was core to the business was making financial calculations based on two digit years. It took a good many hours to immunise our systems. We finished in time though. And I put myself on a register of programmers willing to go at no notice to anywhere in the UK at any time of day or night, for a minimum of 1000 quid per hour, but alas, no call out came my way. But imagine storing money as pounds, shillings and pence. Every read or write to a database would have to do an implicit cast to pence so it would fit in a datatype that the hardware could handle natively. Otherwise you'd be storing more bits per value and doing more processing, therefore needing much more powerful hardware to keep up with modern expectations.
I don't see what decimal currency has got to do with the EU. We went decimal way before we entered the common market as it was then.
