Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/27/british-chancellor-shows-off-c.html
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So fucking gross.
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I’ll keep using contactless, thanks.
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I don’t know why they went with the “Gollum falling into Mount Doom” look for the announcement, but it seems strangely apposite…
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Up is down.
Black is white.
Left is right and right is wrong.
Peace, Prosperity and Friendship is Fuck You.
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I see nothing to celebrate here. What a grim day. The government is run by children peddling fantasies, and no-one seems to care. I don’t think I’ll return home anytime soon.
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What ever happened to “Rule Britannia”, “Take up the White Man’s burden…”, “The sun never sets on the British Empire”…
Oh wait… the 20th century… /s
The coin should read: “National Economic Self-Immolation and a Doomed Return to Oligarchy and Empire”
Such a pity that we colonials learned our lesson with WW parts I and II… I’m so glad my parents got me out of there.
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Cunts. That is all.
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One of the advantages of EU membership is that we get to negotiate wider and deeper trade deals from a position of strength.
If we leave, the boot will be on the other foot – and that will put Britain at a serious disadvantage.
I’m not about to vote for a decade of stagnation and doubt.
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There is a discussion on Twitter on how to best cement these coins into urinals. For target practice.
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That is a photo of Javid taking a wild guess at what his new job is about.
“Chancellor of the Exchequer… that’s the guy who spends most of his time designing coins and banknotes right?”
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Brexit 50p: “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations!!!” 
Dinner table cat: “Peace, prosperity Lo and friendship with all nations” 
Where any member of this government is concerned, this is to be recommended and if not possible, rubber gloves are a non-optional alternative.
There’s also an alleged remainer plot to take them out of circulation (which cementing to a urinal would do, yep) or to keep them and donate to any anti-Brexit, anti-Tory charities or other organisations but unfortunately this would not remove them from circulation.
I’ll be burying all mine in the back garden for a future detectorist to find and muse over. If enough people all bury a few of these coins they could one day become the equivalent of today’s detectorists’ disappointed “just another ring pull”
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I wonder how many of those he could forcibly swallow
Shouldn’t they just re-mint them with “TBA” across the base?
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But won’t taking them out of circulation make them more rare and thus increase their value in the future?
Better to deface them, surely. Something like “EU” in a heart.
Also, it shows how much I’ve tried to avoid politics the last year, that I’ve only just realised Sajid Javid is Chancellor 
I did not mention the map I’d be making of each one I buried, did I?
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