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?
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”.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Nigel Farage is actually a secret Aquaphibian agent: https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Surface_Agent_X-2-Zero
Yeah. We’ve still got dead slave owners on our money, so I’d be happy with something much more innocent.
Sadly Farage isn’t gormless, while his face looks gormless at rest he is a clever (unacceptable insult), and to be gormless includes a distinct lack of intelligence.
I’ll start the bidding with: naked mole-rat.
@8, Jazzlet: no no he IS an idiot, but as you point out he’s got one kind of cleverness (just one), a talent for convincing and (yes) seducing those more gormless than himself. An emotional Hamelin’s piper if you will: it works only on idiots of course, but of those there’s an inexhustible supply (to get an idea, look at John Oliver’s series on brexit, a parade of turnipheads). In all other domains he’s hopeless, an eminence of incompetence truly overwhelming to behold.
AND he may be on course for being the next prime minister of the UK. The scept’red isle, sinking fast.
Anyone who labels things woke reflexively and unironically has their own personal and perfectly consistent definition: That which I don’t like. The OP is hardly surprising or news worthy.
Since he was posting to complain about people being “woke”, I guess it makes sense that he used a picture of himself eyes-closed and presumably asleep?
We had something similar the last time Canada updated its passport design (announced three years ago, though only available as of two years ago) and the visa page images went from historical references to nature scenes. Our version of the Right was all ‘why does Justin Trudeau hate Canadian history?!?!’
Admittedly we also had some of that a few years before when we went from the $10 featuring Sir John A. MacDonald; to a 2017 sesquicentennial bill that had Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir George-Étienne Cartier, Agnes Macphail (first female member of Parliament), and James Gladstone (first First Nations member of the Senate); to the modern bill from 2018 onward featuring Viola Desmond, a black businesswoman who was also a civil rights activist.
Still don’t have a bank note featuring King Charles here; the new Canadian $20 bills including him aren’t expected to enter circulation until next year. Coins with his face have already been in circulation for a couple of years, of course; coin design is inherently a lot simpler than bills as they’re smaller and have less possible detail, not to mention that it’s a lot more work to try to counterfeit coins than it is bills, so the security requirements aren’t the same.
“I’m printing polecats on currency for peace!”