THE new £50 note has to have a British face on it, so in the spirit of the Thatcher campaign, here’s our top 10 choices:
FRED GOODWIN
The banker who broke RBS would love to be honoured, seeing as how he lost his previous one.
CRUELLA DE VIL
Thatcher was the milk snatcher who ruined many a childhood, so if you’re going to have a divisive female on your banknote why not the nastiest one of all?
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TONY BLAIR
For his contribution to peace in Iraq. Or perhaps not...
MARY ANNE MACLEOD TRUMP
The Scotswoman who gave the free world its saviour, or so he likes to tell us.
NIGEL FARAGE
He should be honoured for his service to unity in the Tory party.
LADY MACBETH
As Shakespeare wrote her, and not as she really was – by all accounts a good queen to a good king.
OSWALD MOSLEY
If you really want to commemorate a divisive political figure...
DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
The Butcher of Culloden, another Scottish hate figure.
MISS TRUNCHBULL
The villainess in Matilda is Roald Dahl’s scariest woman.
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