It will be the first time since the Lisbon treaty in 2008 that "punishment" will be served for not keeping the deficit under 3%. since then, even Germany (and France) have had deficits above that. I am not saying it is not fair, I just hope that from now on every country at fault will pay also.
As for fish and chips, I am planning to visit the UK next year, the pound will be cheap?
That will depend on whether they - the British politicos - end up knowing better than giving themselves the Go50 coup de grâce.
If they do do it, don't expect to find the chips cheaper - Mallorca exports lots of potatoes, and also
buys seed potatoes from Scotland in return. You can see the peeling away of the north making more sense (of sorts) every day. Prawns are exported from Scotland to the Med in huge numbers... what will happen to those markets, I wonder?
(Buy hey, depending where you buy your pounds, you're likely to get screwed anyway. That's why I run credit cards in both countries: if I were to rely on either a Sterling one
or a Euro one only, I'd get screwed on exchange rates and currency transaction fees at some time in either jurisdiction.)
For sure, gin will cost more. Almost happy I can't touch it anymore. No - I lie - I bitterly regret it! Never liked beer, but loved the gin and tonics. One particularly happy memory of my wife has us in a hotel near the Dordogne, both sitting nursing new glasses of the stuff, when this elderly gent walked past our little table and said, in terribly good English: "ah, G&T, how civilized!" Must have had a helluva good nose, though, that guy!
Rob
