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Finally! A definition!

The UK plans to release new bank notes in a few years, which isn’t news at all. Countries do this every once in a while, you know.

Banknotes issued by the Bank of England will soon feature images of wildlife rather than historical figures, following a public consultation on the design of the next set of currency.

There is nothing too trivial to trigger the Right, though. And new we finally have a definition of “woke”!

The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.

You can always trust Nigel Farage to babble out some ludicrous nonsense.

I, for one, will welcome the new, much prettier UK currency. Can you also replace Farage with a more attractive animal? Something that doesn’t scream “gormless” when displayed?

« This is what it feels like to be a rogue state

Comments

  1. rickarddavidt says

    I thought the definition of “woke” was “anything that suggests that Anglo-Saxon men aren’t the ne plus ultra of human evolution and god’s chosen people”.

  2. says

    I know it’s confusing @1 rickarddavidt.
    Previous things I thought woke was:
    1. A secret ingredient in tofu.
    2. Superheroes saving lives, particularly if the list includes a squirrel among hundreds of humans.
    3. Hygiene. Particularly at Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments. (Some people would literally stink themselves up to distract their opponents. They get banished to the Shadow Realm, now.)
    4. Returning your shopping cart to one of those bays in the parking lot.

  3. Wolfie says

    We already have a woman on the £10 note (Jane Austen) and a gay man on the £50 note (Alan Turing), we did just replace the queen with the king though, so I guess the woke balanced out?

  4. christoph says

    If Nigel Farage were an MP in the 1940’s, he would have been of the MPs who tried to remove Winston Churchill as PM.

  5. Tethys says

    I expect the woke part is environmentalism, as Britain is currently working on reintroducing the Eurasian Beavers that were hunted to extinction in the 1600’s.

    I don’t know why putting Churchill on money is so important to Farage? I would certainly prefer wildlife to dead politicians on my currency.

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