What quintessentially British images should go on the new banknotes? Our panel has some ideas
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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klu9@piefed.social 6 hours ago
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Keir eagerly awaiting Trump’s load? Farage wiping his arse with the country?
SGforce@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
How about this priest they arrested for attending a pro-Palesitian protest?
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
Taleya@aussie.zone 22 hours ago
Not a uk citizen but i wanna say shopping trolley in the canal
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.
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.
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 14 hours ago
Chicken Tikka Masala for the win!
Naich@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Dog shit in a plastic bag, tied to a tree.
matelt@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
I think they should hire Jim’ll Paint It for the job
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
a stabbing outside a ladbrokes
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Paddington, and David Tennant as Doctor Who.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
David Tennant as paddington might be more fun.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Paddington as Dr Who could breathe new life into the franchise
CritFail@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The Bude Tunnel surely, who could deny that pinnacle of human achievement?
Denjin@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
A true marvel of 20th Century engineering.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That accidental renaissance picture outside the Printworks in Manchester
manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JK Rowling hate-tweeting
J92@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sycamore Gap?
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.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A turd floating down a river?
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.
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.