Sterling becoming an emerging currency

And although the pound was low for a bit in 2008-9, since we moved here in 2005 it has never been as consistently low as it has since Brexit.

Pantglas2 we live in France, have UK pensions and keep a spreadsheet of our monthly transfer from the UK from pounds to euros. We know exactly how much Brexit has cost us based on the exchange rate in the year before Brexit and the week before Brexit. It is tens of thousands of euros.

This is one of the consequences of Quantitive Easing - printing money, international investors get nervous, theUK has now proved itself vulnerable to outside pressures because we import too much of everything, too dependant on others while paying ourselves too much.

Too little effort is put into productive industry and most of that benefits foreign owned companies.

I can only speak for myself but when we bought mi Casa in 2011 the £/€ was 1.10 and its been up and down like the proverbial since then. Brexit hasn’t been noticeable actually....

This will of course feed into the inflation.

Post-Brexit comparative export trade performance: