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

What will they come for next? I mean, this is seriously getting ridiculous. Today is D-Day, and we are not being proud of the young men and women who fought to protect this country or incredible leaders like Winston Churchill, who had difficult decisions to make. 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. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say 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...