Churchill to be axed from British banknotes in the name of diversity.

Just to clarify; the currency will no longer feature people, but will celebrate British wildlife.
Hope this helps.

Mamie

Just to clarify; the currency will no longer feature people, but will celebrate British wildlife.
Hope this helps.

Yes I was aware.

The 'diversity' of existence.
Humans last time, now giving other creatures a feature.
Why is that a problem?

Sago

Mamie

Just to clarify; the currency will no longer feature people, but will celebrate British wildlife.
Hope this helps.

Yes I was aware.

The spurious reasons given are however what make me despair (with or without help)

Research commissioned by the Bank concluded that figures such as Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen were “contentious and not representative of the UK’s cultural and natural diversity. ”.

Officials were advised to replace ­portraits with images of nature on banknotes because historical figures represented “a backward-looking vision of the United Kingdom that ­carries too great a risk of division and controversy

I ask you!

Normal practice to change the notes from time to time. Nothing sinister in that.

I really don’t mind the change. Why not celebrate all the beauty of Britain. At least at the moment we still have banknotes.

One of our GC is off to senior school this September, and their house is named after one of those in your post Maw , so hopefully not all is lost regarding UK history…

And no more will we be able to make John McEnroe ‘s face appear. (The late Queen and Dickens IYKYK)

It's good that wildlife will feature on banknotes but the reasons behind the change are not.

I love the idea of celebrating Britain’s wonderful wildlife on banknotes.
And I don’t think there is any attempt to stop celebrating the historical significance of Churchill or Austen.

MawsRosie

And no more will we be able to make John McEnroe ‘s face appear. (The late Queen and Dickens IYKYK)

😹

MawsRosie

Sago

Mamie

Just to clarify; the currency will no longer feature people, but will celebrate British wildlife.
Hope this helps.

Yes I was aware.

The spurious reasons given are however what make me despair (with or without help)

Research commissioned by the Bank concluded that figures such as Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen were “contentious and not representative of the UK’s cultural and natural diversity. ”.

Officials were advised to replace ­portraits with images of nature on banknotes because historical figures represented “a backward-looking vision of the United Kingdom that ­carries too great a risk of division and controversy

I ask you!

Everything I have read is that the change is partly to do with the need to eliminate fraud.
This from The Independent explains how wildlife was chosen as the theme.
"The decision follows a public consultation where the UK wildlife theme garnered the highest proportion of nominations, securing 60 per cent of votes.
Architecture and landmarks closely followed with 56 per cent, ahead of notable historical figures (38 per cent), arts, culture and sport (30 per cent), innovation (23 per cent), and noteworthy milestones (19 per cent). Over 44,000 responses were received, encompassing online surveys, emails, and designs submitted by schools and the wider public.".

Pointless virtue signalling.

Today 07:55 GrannyGravy13

MawsRosie
And no more will we be able to make John McEnroe ‘s face appear. (The late Queen and Dickens IYKYK)

Nor have we been able to see the Queens bottom on the latest notes. Another IYKYK.

There is a public vote of the wildlife to be featured, I’ve made my selection.

To be fair, I quite like the architectural designs - classical, gothic etc - on my euro banknotes. I think there's some mythological figure lurking down the silver security strip somewhere.

Not too bothered about British banknotes as I hardly ever use cash in the UK, not that that's the point here.
Wildlife will sort of do.