SHA Small Heath Alliance

Just seen on the BBC website the vote is open for the next design of Bank notes, to feature nice pretty animals and get rid of Churchill et al.

As usual, lots of silly ‘woke bollix’ nonsense from the like of ‘arr Nige’. Personally I’d love to see a nice Bumblebee and Fox on the notes no-one really uses much these days.

Cast your votes here: -

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

Animals will be nice but this is 100% a way to just get rid of people like Churchill, regardless of how it's framed.

£5 Kingfisher, £10 Fox, £20 Bottlenose Dolphin, £50 Eagle.

Get rid of copper coins and the 20p (replaced by a 25p) coin while we’re at it.

May as well have a £100 (Pine Marten) note while we’re at it.

Edit: bring back £1 notes (pigeon) too. Feck coins.

I loved the birds of the British Isles design for passport stamp pages, though for currency I can't help thinking of Grampa Simpson asking for five bees for a quarter.

There will always be those who feel like their favourite politician (or their imagined version of them) should be on the notes forever, but that's just not how it works. They're not heads of state and it's not an American dollar.

Churchill has only been on money for about 12 years.

It’s not like having his ugly mush on a crumpled 5er is a British institution.

Animals over people (especially politicians) any day of the week 👍

Tandy

£5 Kingfisher, £10 Fox, £20 Bottlenose Dolphin, £50 Eagle.

Get rid of copper coins and the 20p (replaced by a 25p) coin while we’re at it.

May as well have a £100 (Pine Marten) note while we’re at it.

I can see no point having a £100 note when most places don't accept the £50.

Only as they were the most forged note and they weren’t common enough for most cashiers to be able to tell fakes easily.

With inflation and upgraded security features in polymer notes £50 notes (and above one day hopefully if the BoE are sensible) should become more common in normal usage.

I’d like to see historic figures such as Boudicca and Harold Godwinson (the last rightful King worthy of anyone’s respect) on them. I don’t really mind wildlife though.

Bank notes are for boomers, money launderers and the technologically illiterate anyway

Spike

Tandy

£5 Kingfisher, £10 Fox, £20 Bottlenose Dolphin, £50 Eagle.

Get rid of copper coins and the 20p (replaced by a 25p) coin while we’re at it.

May as well have a £100 (Pine Marten) note while we’re at it.

I can see no point having a £100 note when most places don't accept the £50.

Large denomination notes are really useful for criminals and 'grey' transactions.
Over 70% of US$100 bills are supposed to be outside the USA.
The €500 note is mostly used in suspicious areas as well.

Tandy

Animals over people (especially politicians) any day of the week 👍

100%

Meanwhile over the pond they are putting Trump's face on their new $250 bill and his signature on the $100 bill

Nikola Zigic

Animals will be nice but this is 100% a way to just get rid of people like Churchill, regardless of how it's framed.

It was as a result of a public consultation and vote.

[www.bankofengland.co.uk]

Not everything is a woke conspiracy.

Nikola Zigic

Animals will be nice but this is 100% a way to just get rid of people like Churchill, regardless of how it's framed.

Ffs H

Tandy

£5 Kingfisher, £10 Fox, £20 Bottlenose Dolphin, £50 Eagle.

Get rid of copper coins and the 20p (replaced by a 25p) coin while we’re at it.

May as well have a £100 (Pine Marten) note while we’re at it.

Edit: bring back £1 notes (pigeon) too. Feck coins.

....a while ago I stumbled on this video by Matt Parker (who does maths based silliness), where he proposes to ditch the £2 coin for a £1.75 coin after he'd done the maths to work out optimal number of fewest coins that would be needed to pay a range of change

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I am more than happy to get rid of people. I'm not entirely sure why they were ever put on the notes. Especially political figures who are always going to hated by one side.

I'm just not sure on it being just animals. I'd consider things like Monuments or landscapes. You could have things like Stonehenge, Big Ben, Giants Causeway etc.

It needs to find a balance of being patriotic without being seen as right wing fascist or left wing woke. Very difficult rope to walk.

WithamBlue

Tandy

Animals over people (especially politicians) any day of the week 👍

100%

Meanwhile over the pond they are putting Trump's face on their new $250 bill and his signature on the $100 bill

Trying to.

There is a law against living people being on bank notes in America,