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In a hundred years she should be on the notes! There are not too many women who could be on the notes. We need to block politicians and have people who have actually done something. Though we should also include other minorities.


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In a hundred years she should be on the notes! There are not too many women who could be on the notes. We need to block politicians and have people who have actually done something. Though we should also include other minorities.

You know there are only actually three different notes in general circulation, right? As it stands the only politician in current or proposed circulation is Winston Churchill, of whome I think you'd struggle to build an argument he wasn't worthy. Other than that, as of now or for the next few years we have a prison reformer (a woman, incidentally, which doesn't seem to have been newsworthy for some reason..), one composer, one scientist, one author, one economist (seems appropriate...) and two engineers - who get half circulation each as they were a team. In terms of the whole of British history, having two women out of eight is actually over-representation. We may prefer it if there were more illustrious women in UK history, but we can't rewrite it to make them so. Personally, I'd happily put Ada Lovelace up for nomination but I wouldn't claim it was some form of discrimination if she didn't make it onto the banknote. There are a hell of a lot of famous people in UK history, and it's just a fact most of them are men.

The UK has a large enough and illustrious enough history that we have a large queue of people of genuine historical significance to put on the currency. Comparatively speaking, you'd struggle to find a UK citizen of ethnic origin whose achieved something on sufficient scale to stand alongside Charles Darwin or William Shakespeare. Not that they don't have the potential for such greatness, it's just than they've only had 60 years or so to do so, whereas the the more indigenous population has had about 1500 years. One day there may be a great British asian (for example) on a banknote once someone of that group does something truly great. Until then, I don't see the justification for putting someone on there just because of the colour of their skin.


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I'd be happy to see women on bank notes. As I was reading the article, Florence Nightingale sprung to mind as a good candidate.

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I'd be happy to see women on bank notes. As I was reading the article, Florence Nightingale sprung to mind as a good candidate.

I think somebody had that idea in 1975
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Yeah I remember having notes with her on.

The problem is that a lot of famous women are still alive. In fifty year it will be much easier to get women on bank notes.
I'm sure they could find someone suitable now though, it would just be a much shorter list than for men, purely for historical reasons.

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Yeah I remember having notes with her on.

The problem is that a lot of famous women are still alive. In fifty year it will be much easier to get women on bank notes.
I'm sure they could find someone suitable now though, it would just be a much shorter list than for men, purely for historical reasons.

Yes in fifty years will we have Jordan/Katie Price on the bank notes? ;)


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As it stands the only politician in current or proposed circulation is Winston Churchilltry out Christmas pudding recipes, of whome I think you'd struggle to build an argument he wasn't worthy.

The problem is that it opens the door to Thatcher and Blair. If they thought that going to war will get them on the bank notes and extend their legacy it might be a bad thing. In years to come we could have more women because there will be more to choose from.


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I'm not sure it does. There'd by massive objections to them, but no one would reall object to churchill given his role in WW2.

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I'm nure sure it does. There'd by massive objections to them, but no one would reall object to churchill given his role in WW2.

I do agree with you. Though kids might be confused why it is not a dog!

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