{"id":12812,"date":"2023-05-21T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2023-05-21T11:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T11:54:20","slug":"pound-surges-against-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12812","title":{"rendered":"Pound surges against Euro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the so-called United Kingdom disastrously withdrew from the European Union, the supporters of Brexit have been promising Brexit bonuses. The first of these could have finally happened, if the photo below of a display in a foreign exchange bureau in Bristol is telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/brexit_euro.jpg\" alt=\"Board showing 600 euro for 5 pounds\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/brexit_euro.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/brexit_euro-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>$600 for a fiver? Your &#8216;umble scribe couldn&#8217;t believe his eyes! Have the economies of the EU27 gone into total meltdown in the last couple of days?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps all those air miles clocked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kemi_Badenoch\">Kemi Badenoch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_d7OGXeEelE\">Secretary of State for Patronising<\/a>, are paying off as told to the Europhobic hacks at the Daily Brexit (<em>which some still call the Express. Ed.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/badenoch_brexit.png\" alt=\"Headline - We&#039;re seizing opportunities. Kemi Badenoch fires back at Nigel Farage over Brexit dig\" width=\"486\" height=\"812\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/badenoch_brexit.png 486w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/05\/badenoch_brexit-180x300.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, if Brexit <em>really<\/em> is going that swimmingly, your correspondent reckons he&#8217;ll shortly be seeing unicorns on the Downs &#8211; Bristol&#8217;s answer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macmillandictionary.com\/dictionary\/british\/sunlit-uplands\">sunlit uplands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a Brexit bonus or a mistake? Have your say below in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since the so-called United Kingdom disastrously withdrew from the European Union, the supporters of Brexit have been promising Brexit bonuses. The first of these could have finally happened, if the photo below of a display in a foreign exchange bureau in Bristol is telling the truth. $600 for a fiver? Your &#8216;umble scribe couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,17,15],"tags":[40,36,16,22,20],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12821,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions\/12821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}