View Poll Results: Where do you stand on the UK EU Referendum?
Remain - I actually voted
17
28.81%
Remain - I didn't vote
15
25.42%
Leave - I actually voted
15
25.42%
Leave - I didn't vote
9
15.25%
Undecided/don't care
3
5.08%
Voters: 59. You may not vote on this poll
EU Referendum Pulse Check
Jun 25th 2016, 3:57 pm
#46
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Jun 2012
Location: Burnaby, BC
Posts: 446
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
I don't doubt that it will slowly rise back up to similar levels as it was before, but it's definitely a shock to the system!
Looking on the bright side, if you still have student debt, that is now also worth less!
Jun 25th 2016, 4:03 pm
#47
Yo
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,474
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
Could always move back to Blighty, house prices will be falling and the DWP will probably hire you back to deal with the surge of benefit claimants as companies make lay offs and abandon the sinking ship.
Jun 25th 2016, 5:00 pm
#48
Account Closed
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 0
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
I can't recall exactly but
House buying trip 2004 $2.25
Completion 2 months later $2.15
House cost £2500 more to buy.
Took pension early 2007 $2.13
Three years on (pension frozen for 5 years) $1.50
Pension lost $220 monthly.
Between 8.00am on June 23 and 4.00am June 24, pension lost almost $60 monthly.
House buying trip 2004 $2.25
Completion 2 months later $2.15
House cost £2500 more to buy.
Took pension early 2007 $2.13
Three years on (pension frozen for 5 years) $1.50
Pension lost $220 monthly.
Between 8.00am on June 23 and 4.00am June 24, pension lost almost $60 monthly.
For me
Travelling April 2001 - 2.48
Winnipeg May 2003 - 2.25
Holiday September 2007 - 2.05
Moved to Moncton April 2010 - 1.47
Jun 25th 2016, 5:04 pm
#49
Dive Bar Drunk
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 8,649
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
It certainly isn't the lowest at least compared to the Canadian dollar, we brought our house sale cash in October 2009 when the pound was on the steep drift down, we caught it at 1.70 - it drifted down way lower shortly after that and took ages to come back so as Oink says, the dust will settle Beckie, there is always a better time to exchange cash but also always a worse time. Keep the faith.
I see oil price has dipped which will counterbalance back in hour favour, sadly not ours ! XE rate around 1.77 so up from 1.75
I see oil price has dipped which will counterbalance back in hour favour, sadly not ours ! XE rate around 1.77 so up from 1.75
I needed to buy a car but managed to get away with financing most of it.
Jun 25th 2016, 6:26 pm
#50
Bex in the city
Joined: Jun 2013
Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 3,899
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
It will be interesting to see
Jun 25th 2016, 8:08 pm
#51
Oscar nominated
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Moncton, NB, CANADA
Posts: 50,835
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
Jun 26th 2016, 11:19 pm
#52
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Ajax, Ontario
Posts: 7,263
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
I would hope that any immigrants already settled in the UK would be grandfathered into society
Jun 26th 2016, 11:27 pm
#53
Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Not in Paris
Posts: 18,193
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
Boris has just confirmed that nothing is actually going to change.
Jun 27th 2016, 12:30 am
#54
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Dec 2012
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 3,263
Jun 27th 2016, 11:05 pm
#56
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Location: British Columbia
Posts: 3,263
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
I'm actually looking to you for leadership or at least informed opinion BIP (and this isn't even completely a joke!).
And of course the EU won't engage in informal discussions which means the UK has to jump without knowing what it's jumping into (as if it hasn't done that already).
What I am wondering is: is there any chance that access to the single market won't be on the EU's negotiating table at all under any circumstances?
S
And of course the EU won't engage in informal discussions which means the UK has to jump without knowing what it's jumping into (as if it hasn't done that already).
What I am wondering is: is there any chance that access to the single market won't be on the EU's negotiating table at all under any circumstances?
S
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Jun 27th 2016, 11:17 pm
#57
Joined: Feb 2012
Location: Not in Paris
Posts: 18,193
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
And of course the EU won't engage in informal discussions which means the UK has to jump without knowing what its jumping into (as if it hasn't done that already).
What I am wondering is: is there any chance that access to the single market won't be on the EU's negotiating table at all under any circumstances?
S
What I am wondering is: is there any chance that access to the single market won't be on the EU's negotiating table at all under any circumstances?
S
From Boris has said so far, which isn't much, he's very much in favour of keeping us in the single market with a Swiss type deal. I also wouldn't be surprised that if at the end of it all we have another referendum where we get to choose between the new deal and the status quo.
A lot will depend on what happens between now and 2nd September and who our new Prime Minster will be. I'll be betting on May as it stands.
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Jun 27th 2016, 11:38 pm
#58
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Dec 2012
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 3,263
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
Thank you 
I'm betting the same way as you. She's got a better hair cut than Boris.
S
I'm betting the same way as you. She's got a better hair cut than Boris.
S
Jun 29th 2016, 3:13 pm
#59
Forum Regular
Joined: Jul 2014
Location: Mid Wales
Posts: 41
Re: EU Referendum Pulse Check
Not the 2nd September any more, it's the 9th but whats a week?
Interesting that there is a lot of discussion about how many voted leave as a protest and now regret it, and about the fact that a referendum only advises MP's on opinion, not commit them to an action.
Boris is the front runner for Conservative Leader but historically the front runner doesn't win the contest. We shall see!
Any delay in triggering the start of the process of leaving will antagonise most of the EU countries as they seem to be taking the view that if you want out then get out, also that the best deal available is the one pointed out by the Remain campaign - pay as much as you were, accept free movement of labour etc (immmigration?) but don't expect to have any say in what goes on. That's the deal for Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the rest of the Free Trade Area and there is an attitude of 'why should UK get a better deal'. All the down sides highlighted by the Leave campaign but none of the benefits of using the changing attitudes within the EU to modernise it.
Only time will tell!
Interesting that there is a lot of discussion about how many voted leave as a protest and now regret it, and about the fact that a referendum only advises MP's on opinion, not commit them to an action.
Boris is the front runner for Conservative Leader but historically the front runner doesn't win the contest. We shall see!
Any delay in triggering the start of the process of leaving will antagonise most of the EU countries as they seem to be taking the view that if you want out then get out, also that the best deal available is the one pointed out by the Remain campaign - pay as much as you were, accept free movement of labour etc (immmigration?) but don't expect to have any say in what goes on. That's the deal for Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the rest of the Free Trade Area and there is an attitude of 'why should UK get a better deal'. All the down sides highlighted by the Leave campaign but none of the benefits of using the changing attitudes within the EU to modernise it.
Only time will tell!
