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Re:British Government loses Article 50 court fight by UK-AL on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:08AM (#12863280)
What have we been seeing? Lower pound is probably a major advantage to working class people.

We have such a high pound because we are a country driven by financial industry, people keep their wealth in pounds because of this. Ultimately it screws over other industries resulting in the south/north divide.

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Re:British Government loses Article 50 court fight by pjc50 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:22AM (#12863363)
I've got a lot of sympathy for this argument, but without wage inflation coming as well there's going to be a short-term nasty squeeze as food and fuel jump 20%.

We saw this play out in Greece. The situation there was far worse, both at government and private level, but there still wasn't enough support for jumping out back to the Drachma and devaluting. And meanwhile the shortage of hard currency caused medical shortages.

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