Prompted by the ski pass topic and a few home and work related purchases from Europe this week, it got me thinking about the Euro again and how much better off we would be as individuals on face value if we'd actually joined back in the day when the Sterling to Euro exchange rate was much better (for us).
I'm sure there is a lot more to it on a national economy scale that most of us probably can't comprehend but I'm still surprised that there has not been more recriminations about not having joined in the past year as the value of the pound in our pockets has plummeted when we cross the channel. Maybe it's because the tories were anti it in the first place and New Labour didn't have the balls to let it pass Brown's "tests" so its in neither of their interests to make a song and dance about it now. But even those vocal advocates for the Euro a few years ago aren't crowing about how right they were.
So - what am I missing - with hindsight would it not have been a good thing to join?
