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"A commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK's departure from the EU" - what to put on it?

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CarryOnScreamingValenta · 29/10/2018 17:28

The above was announced in the budget today:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46017125

Any suggestions for a design?

I thought, perhaps an update of the 1973 design commemorating the EEC, with the Queen's hand now separate and waving goodbye.

"A commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK's departure from the EU" - what to put on it?
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Doobydoo · 30/10/2018 12:00

derik....that was mine! Grin

RomanyRoots · 30/10/2018 12:06

How about "we're doomed" in Dad's Army style.

bellinisurge · 30/10/2018 12:45

10 shilling coin. I was just too young to learn Old Money in school- decimalisation when I was wee.
12 pennies in a shilling. 20 shillings in a pound. 240 pennies ina pound. 13 Knuts in a Sickle. 22 sickles in a Galleon. 6 feet in a furlong. Some of that is even correct.
Still, it won't matter when the currency tanks.

borntobequiet · 30/10/2018 13:03

I like Knuts and Sickles.

Too many of our elected representatives don't know their knuts from their sickles, imo.

Talkstotrees · 30/10/2018 13:09

The ‘heads’ side.

"A commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK's departure from the EU" - what to put on it?
CraicMammy · 30/10/2018 13:10

Vladimir Putin sat next to a computer, laughing his tits off at us.

Havanananana · 30/10/2018 13:10

So many possibilities:

  • A poor urchin asking plaintively 'Please Sir, where's my Brexit dividend' (as Mark Lester from the film 'Oliver')
  • Mrs May stood in the rain in just her underwear round her ankles while Big Ben chimes 23.00
  • A naked Boris Johnson riding a unicorn over the broken bodies of the poor and starving
  • A long queue of car workers outside the Jobcentre with the caption 'Brexit isn't working'
  • As a sort of symmetry, the coin could have 45p on one side and P45 on the other.
"A commemorative 50p coin to mark the UK's departure from the EU" - what to put on it?
derikthesheep · 30/10/2018 13:16

@doobydoo - Halloween Wink
Or god's message from another of his books...
"We apologize for the inconvenience" Grin

SubtitlesOn · 30/10/2018 13:26

Weirdly we found one of the 1973 50p on Sunday in a drawer

CraicMammy · 30/10/2018 13:38

Coach tipping over a cliff, with Michael Caine saying “hold on, I’ve got an idea”

Buteo · 30/10/2018 14:16

Or Gove and Johnson looking like they did the day after the vote with the caption “you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off”?

RedToothBrush · 30/10/2018 15:11

The design is still on the drawing board. We couldn't agree on which plan to go with.

But don't worry, when we get no deal Brexit, we'll just be using £5 notes anyway.

Miscible · 30/10/2018 15:13

Put a large X over the zero, to signify that post Brexit that's all that it will be worth.

Havanananana · 30/10/2018 15:34

Or the really scary ones:

Theresa, her face set in the same self-satisfied grin that she wears when she leaves church every Sunday (despite having condemned 4 million British children to continued poverty every Monday to Friday) - with the inscription 'It is the will of the people.'

A smug Farage, pint of extremely bitter ale in hand and the inscription 'Tomorrow belongs to me.'

CraicMammy · 30/10/2018 15:53

Actually, maybe the plan is we will just get rid of 50p’s altogether and when I go to shops I can demand the shopkeeper gives me produce to the value of 50p for nothing, or I’ll take my custom to a different shop, because all the other shops will be desperate to trade with me cos I’m Betsy Bigbucks or something...

CatkinToadflax · 30/10/2018 16:20

The Poundland logo.

CarryOnScreamingValenta · 30/10/2018 17:17

Love the face-palming Queen for the 'heads' Talkstotrees!

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MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 30/10/2018 18:06

Are none of you pro-Brexit?

pointythings · 30/10/2018 18:10

Lime even if some of us were - how much taxpayer money will it cost to strike this coin? With Spreadsheet Phil graciously conceding a few pennies as 'a little extra' for education, when education budgets have been gutted, this waste of money is an obscenity no matter where you stand on Brexit.

CraicMammy · 30/10/2018 18:15

Leavers will want a picture of:

The Great British Pound
Boris Johnson
A bent banana
The Queen

HoustonBess · 30/10/2018 18:24

Something like this

ForalltheSaints · 30/10/2018 18:36

It should be a half-crown, as that was I think still legal tender on 1 January 1973.

It won't cost anything extra to mint them, pointythings, as they will just be the standard 50p coin minted for a period of time.

CarryOnScreamingValenta · 30/10/2018 18:38

MilkTrayLimeBarrel

I'm a Remainer, but I started the thread with an open mind. Pro-Brexit design ideas are welcome!

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CraicMammy · 30/10/2018 18:47

OP The silence speaks for itself....

CarryOnScreamingValenta · 30/10/2018 18:49

Yes, they haven't exactly flooded in! Grin

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