pound sign (thing)

The symbol for the british pound. The most expensive currency in the world (currently) Roughly equivalent to $1.5 US. Used to be just currency but now with the UK's close links with Europe has turned into a political issue about national identity and independence, with many British people feeling that a single currency would rob them of economic independence in the future.

• symbol
• expensive
• currency
• UK
• Europe
• identity
• independence

• british pound
• political issue
• single currency
• economic independence