Sir Winston Churchill to feature on new banknote

[Jimbuna]

Not before time...this honour should have been given years ago.

Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new design of a banknote which will enter circulation in 2016, the Bank of England has announced.
The wartime leader's image is planned to feature on the reverse of the new £5 note, together with one of his most celebrated quotations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22306707

[Herr-Berbunch]

. . . together with one of his most celebrated quotations.

Please let it be the one to Nancy Astor OR the one to Bessie Braddock.

Although I feel I'm going to be very disappointed on this.

[Dowly]

That's good.

[Skybird]

Better service would be to replace the toy "money" there is with actual value money backed by gold, silver, or whatever it is. Banknotes today are no storage checks for value stored by the banks, but are uncovered debt bonds. Who cares whether they are red, yellow or green?

One of the reasons why so many people do not run around in panic and storm the banks is that people just do not understand what money really is. The states have destroyed real money, and replaced it with a complex system allowing political actors to rob and steal both from the present (taxes) and future (debts).

Guys, do yourself a favour and read here (LINK)

Roughly 100 pages on ly, and fast to read. But best book there is on the real nature of money, and how the state had perverted it - and how this has crippled the modern world.

And it is free to download, legal, no costs.

I thought that the gold market had been cornered by shape-shifting illuminati Trotskyists out to cause the collapse of civilisation and the return of the Corn Laws? Or have you changed your mind: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...highlight=gold

[Skybird]

An old girlfriend of mine being here and having read over my shoulder just told me her nice summary of what the difference is between real (value) money and the toilet paper we have today.

Imagine a little kid playing with a small goldnugget it grabs with its fist. Then father state comes and takes the nugget in his own hand and makes a fist around it and holds the fist to the kid. And kid points at the fist with a finger, and the fist opens and there it is , there is the gold nugget.

Then father states says: "Why playing with one hand only when you can play with so many more and it costs you nothing?", and he lets the gold nugget disappear in one hidden pocket, and then shows the kid the original hand turned into a fist and the other seven hands his many octopus arms have, and there the eight fists are, and the kid points at all of them.

But all eight fists still are empty, not a single gold nugget nowhere.

The game is not about the number of empty fists. It should be about the number of nuggets. But that has been forgotten.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

I thought that the gold market had been cornered by shape-shifting illuminati Trotskyists out to cause the collapse of civilisation and the return of the Corn Laws? Or have you changed your mind: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...highlight=gold

The one story does not contradict the other. And your pathetic rethoric will not provide you with a valid cause.

The only 'pathetic rhetoric' here is yours, Skybird. You babble on endlessly (in multiple threads, even when they are on other topics entirely) about fiat money, and about how gold is somehow a 'real' measure of value, and then post a thread claiming that the price is being manipulated. Both cannot be true.

[vienna]

There's one big flaw about the 'value' of gold: if there were a catastrophe and I had the only food stock in the entire area, how much do you think your gold is worth? How much gold would you pay me for a can of bean?...

<O>

Yup - gold is about the least useful thing to stock up on if you are expecting economic collapse. It looks pretty, but has next-to-no desirable attributes otherwise, unless you are manufacturing electronic goods, or windows for spacecraft - not exactly priorities in such a context. I suppose it might be useful as something you put in a sock to act as a weapon if you want to rob Vienna of his beans...

[Oberon]

Alcohol, cigarettes and coffee would be good bargaining tools in the immediate aftermath, following that, food, water, weapons, people.

[vienna]

Yup - gold is about the least useful thing to stock up on if you are expecting economic collapse. It looks pretty, but has next-to-no desirable attributes otherwise, unless you are manufacturing electronic goods, or windows for spacecraft - not exactly priorities in such a context. I suppose it might be useful as something you put in a sock to act as a weapon if you want to rob Vienna of his beans...

Didn't I mention the stockpile of weapons I'll have also? Yes, the only way you'l get those beans is out of my cold, dead hands!!...

<O>

[STEED]

Meanwhile in a galaxy not very far away, trust me its not...


JIMBO WARS
Episode 9

The Dark one is coming!

Jimbo and his merry band have rec'd word the dark one is coming, and he will print money faster than you can wipe your backside after being hit by the Monty zoomers. The crazy old dimwit has almost fallen and the winds blast in the stench of the dark one who obeys his evil masters in the empire of Goldman Sachs.

It is a dark time on planet UK, only Jimbo and his merry men stand in the way of the dark one who will destroy planet UK for ever. The time has come to kick butt and down another pint of best with a packet of pork scratchings and take on the new head of the BoE...

[Catfish]

Why not Thatcher ?

Originally Posted by Catfish

Why not Thatcher ?

Because of the negative opinions of a significant proportion of the British population, for a start.