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

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

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SGforce@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

83 year old priest arrested

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

jimmy90@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
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Taleya@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

tal@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 1y

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.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/fe8755cc-eb0c-4f0d-9ead-8dee2cc5c33e.jpeg

Naich@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 1y

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

rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

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

leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

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.

Morlark@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y

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.

CritFail@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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

Denjin@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y

A true marvel of 20th Century engineering.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y

That accidental renaissance picture outside the Printworks in Manchester

matelt@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y

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

J92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Sycamore Gap?

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

JK Rowling hate-tweeting

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Paddington, and David Tennant as Doctor Who.

HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

David Tennant as paddington might be more fun.

Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Paddington as Dr Who could breathe new life into the franchise

WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

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

3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com · 3 pts · 1y

Chicken Tikka Masala for the win!

manualoverride@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A turd floating down a river?

WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

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.

klu9@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y