{"id":4122,"date":"2003-06-09T22:07:39","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2003-06-09T22:07:39","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T21:07:39","slug":"tim-weber-of-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/06\/09\/tim-weber-of-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Weber of the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Weber of the BBC gives a plain English <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/2975790.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">interpretation<\/a> of Gordon Brown&#8217;s analysis of the five tests for euro membership. For those that are really keen on learning more, HM Treasury has devoted a whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk\/documents\/the_euro\/euro_index_index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"HM Treasury\">section of its website<\/a> to the subject.<br \/>\nNo doubt there will be more press coverage and analysis tomorrow. My opinion? The outcome of Brown&#8217;s analysis has been driven as much by political motives as by hard economics, and whatever he would have concluded, it is unlikely that the pro-euro campaign could win a referendum in the foreseeable future, sad to say.<br \/>\nMy little new business has to run a dual currency accounting system, complete with attendant extra costs, extra accountant fees, extra paperwork, etc. I will have to offer my clients the choice of being invoiced\/paid in euro or sterling. Inevitably, I will lose money on currency fluctuations and transaction costs. Adoption of the euro in the UK would simplify my business and save me a lot of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Weber of the BBC gives a plain English interpretation of Gordon Brown&#8217;s analysis of the five tests for euro membership. For those that are really keen on learning more, HM Treasury has devoted a whole section of its website to the subject. No doubt there will be more press coverage and analysis tomorrow. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}