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What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨unitedkingdom@feddit.uk⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/british-new-banknotes-bank-of-england-money

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  • Morlark@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Being a proud maritime nation, sure we should be celebrating this by having each denomination of note show a different famous vessel?

    £5 is Boaty McBoatface.

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  • klu9@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keir eagerly awaiting Trump’s load? Farage wiping his arse with the country?

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  • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    83 year old priest arrested

    How about this priest they arrested for attending a pro-Palesitian protest?

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    • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      how about the peace flag of northern ireland?

      oh no wait a minute that’s right the palestinians haven’t wanted peace for 100 years; not appropriate

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not a uk citizen but i wanna say shopping trolley in the canal

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Me neither, but that just provides us with an objective look at what’s clearly best, free of encumbering sentiment.

      I like the Bermudian idea of using flora and fauna to capture a country’s distinctive identity. A shift like this would show that we’re not trapped in tradition.

      Exactly. A spectral lion, dragon, and unicorn in the background. In the foreground, a bulldog wearing mirrored steampunk goggles on a surfboard doing an aerial off a cresting wave with a fancy caption beneath him reading “Britannia rules the waves!” The mirrored goggle lenses are where the shiny anti-counterfeiting hologram goes.

      Also, get Jessica Borutski to do the draft. She did a Canada logo a while back.

      lemmy.today/…/fe8755cc-eb0c-4f0d-9ead-8dee2cc5c33…

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  • leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh the options are endless…Liz Kendall in an SS uniform machine-gunning a load of disabled people, Yvette Cooper in a Suffragette tee laughing as a load of anti-genocide supporters get arrested for holding signs, Keir Starmer taking a shit on the UK whilst Farage stands off to one side loosening his belt ready to go next.

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  • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chicken Tikka Masala for the win!

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  • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Dog shit in a plastic bag, tied to a tree.

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  • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think they should hire Jim’ll Paint It for the job

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  • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    a stabbing outside a ladbrokes

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Paddington, and David Tennant as Doctor Who.

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    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      David Tennant as paddington might be more fun.

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      • Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Paddington as Dr Who could breathe new life into the franchise

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  • CritFail@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Bude Tunnel surely, who could deny that pinnacle of human achievement?

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    • Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A true marvel of 20th Century engineering.

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That accidental renaissance picture outside the Printworks in Manchester

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    JK Rowling hate-tweeting

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  • J92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sycamore Gap?

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How about renditions of the movie Threads? That seems the most optimistic projection for the UK’s future on its current path.

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  • manualoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A turd floating down a river?

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    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How about this? On the front, an image of Charles signing a decree condemning trans women as pedophiles. On the back, a painting of an obese King Charles furiously masturbating to child pornography while an anti-genocide protester is chained naked in the same bed. That’s the truest representation of the UK I can think of right now.

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