Lootman wrote:I think it's outrageous. It's fascinating how the UK government thinks it can get away with such things. Compare this with the situation in America where the US Mint has wanted to replace dollar bills for decades, a dollar being worth less than a pound and we abolished the pound note a long time ago.
It hasn't happened in the US because the people and voters love their dollar bills and kick up a fuss whenever the idea is mooted. In fact dollar coins are circulated and people just refuse to use them or accept them as change or in banks.
So why is our government so oblivious to public outrage?
Just because the Yanks like to have a ready supply of materials for forging higher value notes, which won't work here as ours are all different sizes, doesn't mean we have to be such idiots.
I for one will be glad to see the back of the damn things, given how many forged ones there are out there.
Slarti