Who do you think should be on the new £50 note?
After the Bank Of England announced there would be a public consultation into who should appear on the new, more secure version of the bank’s highest-value note, people are making their own suggestions.
🚨 Breaking 🚨 Your £50 notes will be going plastic just like the £5, £10 and £20 notes 💷
There are 330 million £50 notes in circulation (worth £16.5 billion)
More here 👉 https://t.co/PrG9k5hP8V and what a £50 looks like today 👇 pic.twitter.com/s83RLBtdhG
— HM Treasury (@hmtreasury) October 13, 2018
Some were sensible and serious.
One idea for the new £50 note: Clement Attlee, whose government nationalised the Bank of England in 1946 among other things.
— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) October 15, 2018
The new £50 note would be a great way to recognise and celebrate the life of Mary Seacole, who was voted the greatest black Briton. https://t.co/SoRedjuryO
— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) October 13, 2018
Some were perhaps a little more on the lighthearted side.
Wales is under-represented on our currency. My shout for the new £50 note. pic.twitter.com/2VCnSKeP5B
— Chris Fox (@thisisFoxx) October 15, 2018
PUT ALISON HAMMOND OFF THIS MORNING ON THE £50 NOTE
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) October 15, 2018
Petition for Phillip Schofield to be the face of the new £50 note
— Callum Lyon (@CallumLyon) October 15, 2018
Many were football related.
Here's our nominee for the face of the new £50 note… pic.twitter.com/IIQ4BwX18H
— Pro:Direct Soccer (@ProD_Soccer) October 15, 2018
A new £50 note is coming and the public can pick whose face is on it!
This HAS to happen… 👀🤣 pic.twitter.com/FwQolQYI7k
— The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast (@SportsBreakfast) October 15, 2018
So the public are deciding who goes on the new £50 note, if it’s not Gareth Southgate or any of England’s World Cup squad we’ve failed as a nation
— luke (@bcafcluke) October 15, 2018
Sadly the crushing and somewhat boring truth is that the reigning monarch is the only living person who appears on banknotes.
As brilliant as it would be having Southgate, Harry Maguire or anyone else on the new £50 note, rather annoyingly they’d have to be deceased… #TheMoreYouKnow pic.twitter.com/BLmRKdv7xg
— Scott ⚽ (@PicardyBreezer) October 15, 2018
But that didn’t stop a full scale campaign to get England defender Harry Maguire onto the note from getting under way.
The face of the new £50 note will be decided by the public…
Let's make it happen, people!!! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/TiPEHXxV14
— Soccer AM (@SoccerAM) October 15, 2018
Bank of England: Harry Maguire Riding An Inflatable Unicorn for the face of the New £50 Note – Sign the Petition! https://t.co/k7pZO6lLxy via @UKChange
— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) October 15, 2018
The £50 is coming home.