Replacing Churchill with animals? Shame on the Bank of England for even considering this utter nonsense - Nana Akua

Instead of keeping the great in Great Britain, we are faced with the woke, which is slowly eroding the very fabric of this country.

The Bank of England has decided to replace images of these courageous individuals, who have featured on our banknotes for decades, with wildlife.

So puffins, owls, maybe dolphins. You seriously couldn't make this up? Why? I hear you ask.

Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, claimed in the Telegraph this week that the bank's foremost objective is the security of our banknotes, which includes tackling the threat from counterfeiting.

So basically, he's implying that banknotes featuring people's faces are easier to counterfeit. I presume he claimed that they wanted to stay ahead of fraudsters.

Sounds a bit sus to me, but it turns out the bank's decision may also have been motivated by research that was only disclosed after a Freedom of Information request.

Apparently, the Bank of England was advised to move to images of nature after research prepared for the Bank of England staff warned that most of the 119 participants in focus groups felt that featuring historical figures on banknotes was, I quote, "potentially divisive, elitist and disconnected from their own experiences".

They warned that images of landmarks and historic architecture could be too controversial as well.

So let me get this straight, because 119 people in some focus groups, which sound like they were filled with middle-class lefties with too much money, the bank is replacing them with animals.

Yet they are, of course, keeping the king. I mean, I'd like to see them dare to try to remove him. I mean, you couldn't get more elite than that.

No, I'm not buying into the suggestion that they're doing this because of counterfeit notes. The world has pretty much gone digital anyway. I can't remember the last time I had actual cash in my hands.

No, this is woke and all part of the whole decolonising-the-curriculum left-wing agenda.

119 people. Is that all? And I bet as this was in focus groups, who's going to speak up and say something different if you're faced with a bunch of rabid lefties?

I don't know where they got these people from, because so far, I haven't found anyone who agrees with them.

It is typical that people who have benefited from others' sacrifices can so easily turn their noses up and have now become useful idiots.

Luckily for them, because of the sacrifice of others, they can spend time on folly. I doubt they've even noticed that we are at war and our civilisation is under threat.

Well, thank God for those brave individuals who fought for this country.

Today is the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings, the day that our brave men and women secured the future of this country.

I, for one, are so proud of being British. Why do you think people are just clambering over each other to get to this country via dinghy?

Shame on the Bank of England and its governor, Andrew Bailey, for even considering this utter nonsense.

How about you focus on fixing our broken economy?