Kneel before the feminist

[Ginger Tea]

Well, I'd like to think that most people know who Florence was . . . .

I never said I didn't, it was the fry woman id have to Google and tbh wont bother with, once she's off the note I wont encounter her name again, she's famous for being on a note just as people are famous for being on TV, hell not even that, I don't even know the bloke from the twenty, Darwin on the tenner I know of (although I thought he was on one of the discontinued bills shows how much I look at my money).

But one name that should have been at the top of the "it must be a woman" brigade should be Emmeline Pankhurst from the suffragette movement, all they got was a foot note centenary 50p piece for the movement not the main movers and shakers.

[HYHYBT]

I wonder how many people, like me, only know of her because of a line in "Mary Poppins?"

("Take heart, for Mrs. Pankhurst has been clapped in irons again")

[Ginger Tea]

Well I got an email from change.org after singing a petition from here some time back, apparently they are rejoicing that the voice of the people was heard and Jane Austin is to be on the new tenner.

Mind you I don't even know if the 'tenner lady' (think I got that from mock the week) had been discussed outside of the mint, I just remember a big stink about loosing some woman called Elizabeth fry, and all she's good for in history in my eyes is being close to exact change when buying a pint.

So change.org rejoice, you won (it might have been on the cards anyway) but enjoy the jokes in pubs across the UK.

[fireheart17]

Damn...I hope this never comes up should we have a money change.

Weirdly enough, despite Australia being a Commonwealth country, the queen only features on our $5 note. All the other notes feature Australian figures of some kind and on top of that, apart from the $5 note, all the other notes feature both a man AND a woman. (the other side features maps of the current and old Parliament Houses)

[Ginger Tea]

Winston Churchill is to be the fiver so if I were a con goer and the actor who played him not only in who but other bbc wartime shows, id get him to sign a crispy mint condition note.

[SongsOfDragons]

They had been planning to put Austin on for years - it takes time to design a banknote properly. All they did was show what it might look like in 2020 or whenever the note is going to be released. They haven't won a fucking thing and they've made themselves look like ignorant, selfish little children.

[Ginger Tea]

So if the mint spoke up months ago and said "Look the next ten pound note out circa 2014 (according to one source and 2020 the date you got) will feature Jane Austin." there would be no fuss kicked up, but it would give the public a tonne of time to realise the tena lady gaff and rib them about it.

It's kinda sad when a case of "we were going to do it anyway, but we wanted it to be kept quiet (or some other reason for not saying out right)" is turned into a victory.

but it's even sadder that the main woman spearheading the campaign has received tonnes of death and rape threats via twitter, again none of this fuss would have happened if they had said "fiver Churchill tenner Austin twenty and fifty whomever. all to be released between 2014 and whenever."
because they kept quiet about the other notes it seemed that only the fiver was due a face lift, perhaps it will be out a year before the next, I think they do stagger them in.
but it's not as if Emily fry's notes are all going to suddenly be valueless and destroyed by the mint the day after the Churchill ones enter the banks, I was getting Rockets months after the Fry notes hell I even got one months after the legal tender cut off date in my change, a pub accepted a worthless piece of paper with £5 written on it and a picture of a rocket and I didn't notice till I came to pay and they would not accept it, even though the same bar man gave it to me the last round. But I just handed it into a bank and got a new one there and then.

[SongsOfDragons]

but it's even sadder that the main woman spearheading the campaign has received tonnes of death and rape threats via twitter,

Aye. This is going too far. Being called a muppet yes, threats of criminal harm hell no. I think I read on the BBC it was an organised thing too. *shakes head*

again none of this fuss would have happened if they had said "fiver Churchill tenner Austin twenty and fifty whomever. all to be released between 2014 and whenever."
because they kept quiet about the other notes it seemed that only the fiver was due a face lift, perhaps it will be out a year before the next, I think they do stagger them in.

They announce the new design in stages about two years before the release. They did it for the £20, then the £50, but release it normally for the fiver and they realise they need to bring forwards their probably unfinished design for the tenner because of whingeing. And yes it's not like Fry fivers will spontaneously combust when Churchill is released, but that made no difference at all.