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The Pound Sinks Further

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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Are there any signs of panic? Or is it just concern?
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lemonjelly wrote: »
    Are there any signs of panic? Or is it just concern?


    no, just usual trading patterns
    Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
    (MSE Andrea says ok!)
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    no, just usual trading patterns

    Forgive me, if it is just usual trading patterns, why are some arguing it is a sign of impending doom?
    mushroom-cloud.jpg
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lemonjelly wrote: »
    Forgive me, if it is just usual trading patterns, why are some arguing it is a sign of impending doom?
    mushroom-cloud.jpg


    ...who is?
    Please take the time to have a look around my Daughter's website www.daisypalmertrust.co.uk
    (MSE Andrea says ok!)
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Well, they always do.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    UBS is predicting 1.34

    Barclays are predicting 1.55


    make your own minds up !!

    Hope we don't go down to 1.05 just like the last time the Tory govt attained power :eek:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    ...who is?

    Tone of the OP appears to suggest it...
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    ...who is?

    Well school's only just ended for the day, so they may not be online yet. Plus the older ones could have all gone to Abu Dhabi to try out the gold ATMs that lemonjelly posted about earlier. Or alternatively Wilkinsons could have a sale on tinfoil.
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    The kids have just got home from school:

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2466297
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • Spiv_2
    Spiv_2 Posts: 280 Forumite
    $1.4692

    Folks, I wasn't saying anything other than there hadn't been much of a "relief rally" with the new conservative government and that the pound was falling:)
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