Talk:United Kingdom and the euro

message: Quoth the article:
:...it is possible that the Royal Mint could continue to include the symbols of the home nations on the British designed coinage, although this would have to be included in place of the Queen's portrait.
Um, really?  I know it isn't the biggest canvas, to work with, but several Euro coins manage to find room for both a person's portrait and some other recognizable icon on the national side.  Particularly on the larger coins, the Queen's head could for instance be in the foreground and some distinctive icon or pattern could be in the background.  It'd be tricky, but it could be pulled off.  The current wording implies that somehow this is an impossibility. --Jfruh (talk) 00:03, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, some coins in other countries are issued with a tiny silhouette of their monarch placed aside a more specific design. No reason why this could not be done on most denominations with the old bag in full on one of the larger coins.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.111.162.127 (talk) 00:29, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overstated? 

message: Should there not be a mention of Scotland's desire for independance and, based upon that the wish to adopt the Euro?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.199.148.200 (talk) 16:24, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. You can easyly edit article and add this information and any other that you think is important. Just don't forget to put references. --Dima1 (talk) 16:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Welcome.  As Dima1 says, yes it's perfectly suitable material so by all means add it, but you'll need reliable sources, and this has been a bit of a stumbling block in the past when discussing what would happen regarding the EU if Scotland became independent.  On this article, make sure that the information is primarily about the euro - we have Scottish independence which people could go to for background. Pfainuk talk 17:38, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Scotlands desire for independance" is a tad POV though Surely you mean "some peoples desire for Scottish independance" 86.45.223.115 (talk) 17:03, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scotland 

message: Experts says that this decision is to reinforce that the euro will not be adopted in the UK for a long while
Not only does this seem grammatically wrong, its technically rubbish too. The mint makes minor design changes to UK coin designs ever single year. 
The stamps used to create coins break after a few months and new ones must be created, there is really no extra effort required in chaining the design on these stamps from which coins are produced. There is therefore no significance regarding new designs and possible Euro entry, as the stamps producing new designs today will be broken and discarded within a few months! 
If they had physically changed the coins, for example made the 2p smaller or the pound coin bi-metallic, then this would have been costly and could probably be taken as a sign the Euro was at least 15 years off, but to change only the face design of a coin requires no significant effort or cost.
It also appears that the text as quoted above is not really an accurate reflection of the article to which it references - 86.111.162.127 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 00:55, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest you read the source, it seems this change in the face design is not as simple and cheap as you believe. Miguel.mateo (talk) 01:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have just read it again and it doesn't even make mention to a cost, nor imply significant effort in changing design. It seems the quote above is simply an adoption of a quote which itself does not make any reference as to why this design change has any impact on possible Euro entry. 86.111.162.127 (talk) 19:16, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New look ≠ No euro.  

message: Have polls been made after 2005 ? Must have been. Please check and write about them. I found none at a quick googling. --BIL (talk) 17:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polls? 

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message: The euro accession map needs to be updated. The latest map can be found at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Euro_accession.svg> How do we incorporate it in the article? Michael Glass (talk) 12:25, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Euro Accession Map

message: With parity between the euro and the pound imminent there has been a fair bit of talk in the media about the UK taking the euro. Probably the most notable would be the call by Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland calling for Scottish businesses to accept the euro in order to encourage tourism from the Eurozone. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7809700.stm)
Another important bit of information that I think is important is that some shops in Northern Ireland have started accepting the euro at parity, causing a large influx of shoppers from south of the border, making some shops (e.g sainsbury's in Newry) the most successful in their company. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7670658.stm)
In balance though Caroline Flint, the Europe Secretary, and the Conservative Party say that the UK will not be taking the euro any time soon. Scroggie (talk) 22:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just curious, do we have any issues adding this information to the article instead than here in the talk page? Thanks, Miguel.mateo (talk) 01:43, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent events

message: They should make a compromise, e.g. keep a picture of the Queen on all their regular-issue coins, but for their "commemorative" €2 issues, rotate between Home Nations symbols each year like they do with the £1 coin. 60.234.139.39 (talk) 23:03, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As I think I've mentioned here before, chances are the Royal Mint already have a plan - maybe even have dies made up - for various contingencies (including the accession of Charles or William to the throne, or British accession to the euro).  But discussion of such possibilities is beyond our remit here because it is not politically convenient to make such plans public, and so any comment in the article would be pure speculation.  The purpose of talk pages is not to discuss potential accession of the UK to the eurozone, but to discuss the article United Kingdom and the euro. Pfainuk talk 23:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Here's what I think the UK should do about whether to include the Queen or the Home Nations on their euro coinage 

message: need an update!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.176.204.200 (talk) 22:32, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polls... 

message: This article is a load of non-sense. It gives the perception that it would be a possibility of the UK joining the Euro and the reality is no one in the UK is even remotely discussing the idea of joining the euro. Thankfully, it's obvious that the UK will  never join the Euro. The article needs to make this clear.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezza1995 (talk • contribs) 14:12, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is Biased 

message: Regardless of U.K. Euro viability, the article seems to have taken the stand of explaining why the adoption will never happen, instead of exploring the outcome of either of the possibilities.
* The table has a single column highlight, which is about the sheer number of folk who don't want the currency adopted. If this is to clarify the for/against columns in the chart, I would suggest highlighting the coulumn in favour also.
* The article name does not use a capital letter for the currency name, in contrast to articles about other proper nouns. and other pages.
I intend to make some adjustments to these aspects in due course. If there are any suggestions or other opinions, please mention here or contact me via the talk link in my sig. Mongoosander (talk) 16:32, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: In response to your specific points:
*the highlighting is used to indicate the most popular option.  See for example Sweden and the euro#Opinion polls.  It just so happens that only the NO has been more popular in the listed polls.  Perhaps there should be a legend explaining this.
*The name of the euro is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized.  See the EU's style guide: "Like ‘pound’, ‘dollar’ or any other currency name in English, the word ‘euro’ is written in lower case with no initial capital."  TDL (talk) 17:24, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for the info about chart styles. Also, for the link from the EU style guide. I don't think the changes need to be made now your points have made things clear. Mongoosander (talk) 18:08, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias toward forgone conclusion 

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