£50 Note

[mushroom25]

well well. how much will virtue signallers froth at the mouth if Mrs Thatcher makes it on to the £50 note?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/26/margaret-thatcher-eligible-scientist-50-note-bank-england

[kvalidir]

Well I want to be on the £50 note because I once made a trifle. Utterly preposterous.

[mushroom25]

nah kval you don't qualify.

unless...…

you're speaking to us from the other side, whoooooooooo!

[EDDIE51]

£50 note? What is that? I don't think I have ever had one.

[david small]

I’ve never encountered a problem spending £50 notes.
I have one €50 Euro note that looks very grubby that I will spend in August I hope.

[aelmpvw]

//Doesn't bother me who's on it, they'll still spend, though Ada Lovelace was my choice//
had to read that twice mamya, thought it said linda lovelace ...

[Old_Geezer]

That would've gone down well.

[tonyav]

Margret Thatcher on a £50 note, nah much better on toilet rolls imo.

[New Judge]

You may well thank Mrs T for having toilet rolls, tony. Had the UK gone on as it was in 1979 we'd all probably be using torn up newspaper hanging from a nail (those of us who could afford the nail, that is).

[Mamyalynne]

No, I meant Ada :-)

[tonyav]

You may well thank Mrs T for having toilet rolls, tony. Had the UK gone on as it was in 1979 we'd all probably be using torn up newspaper hanging from a nail

Well it did come close to newspaper, NJ. I spent some time out of work during the Thatcher years but then again I wasn't in a bullet proof job such as police, armed forces or the civil service and living North of Watford as well.

[Deskdiary]

Thatcher being on the £50 note will never happen because people will lose their siht.

These are the same non-thinking idiots who blame Thatcher for the closure of the pits (Labour closed more) and the Community Charge (a significantly fairer way of collecting local taxes than the Council Tax), plus pretty much everything else that has happened in the past 27 years since she lost power.

It's all Thatcher's fault.

Morons.

[Mamyalynne]

People will lose their...?

Well then, people should remember where they put things shouldn't they.

I once had a fifty note stolen, I dare not say who by.

[Gromit]

The more I look into this, the more apt the Thatcher suggestion is:

From the FT
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https://www.ft.com/content/0944a7f2-c128-11e6-81c2-f57d90f6741a

what should be the pinnacle of England’s banknotes languishes unloved. Hardly any cash dispensers issue it. Shops rarely see it. There have even been calls for its abolition.

The very mention of the £50 produces disquiet in some quarters. Peter Sands, the former chief executive of Standard Chartered bank, suggested last February that the main use of the 50 was illicit:

“Ask people in the United Kingdom when they last used a £50 note, the highest sterling denomination, and the most common answer is to pay a builder or plumber,” he said in a paper calling for its abolition. “The incentive is tax evasion.“ //

How appropriate that Mrs T is in the reckoning.

[Deskdiary]

"How appropriate that Mrs T is in the reckoning."

It is not in the slightest bit appropriate.

Gromit's nonsense aside though, I must admit I cannot remember the last time I used a £50 note.

[Theland]

Never owned one.

[gulliver1]

God help the value of stirling! , its bad enough as it is.

[mushroom25]

can we assume the value of Stirling is as bad as you say it is because the council is run by a minority SNP administration propped up by the labour party?

[gulliver1]

Which Council are you on about Mush?.

[gulliver1]

The reason Stirling is so weak at the moment is nowt to do with Thatcher or any Council, IT'S because of the fear of Brexit, and it can only get worse.

[fiction-factory]

Stirling Council of course, gulliver. You mentioned Stirling.