British wartime leader Winston Churchill is set to be removed from the UK £5 banknote and replaced with wildlife imagery. Nadeem Perera, a member of the Bank of England’s wildlife advisory panel, called the move “overdue,” saying Britain’s wildlife is deeply connected to the nation’s culture.
Current banknotes feature major historical figures including Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, J.M.W. Turner, and Alan Turing. The Bank of England will now ask the public to help choose which animals appear on the redesigned notes.
If it wasn't for the trees, they'd all be speaking German.
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Asking the public ... I suggest the Boaty McBoatface shrubbery.
ReplyDeleteBetter not put any dogs on those bank notes. Would want to 'offend' anyone!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't want to honor the man who saved you from the nazi concentration camps now would you.
ReplyDeleteQuoting WC remarks about muslime will get you thrown in jail for hate speech.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Bank of England "[Paper money] should not involve imagery that would reasonably be offensive to, or exclude, any groups.” Andrew Bailey is the new Governor of the Bank of England. At Cambridge he chaired the university's branch of the Fabian Society. For those who are unfamiliar with the Fabian Society, it's a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. It is related to radicalism, a left-wing liberal tradition.
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