Gandhi On Uk Currency

[fender62]

and gandhi did mmm what for britain? to get his face on currency, would he think it was crass, as he walked around in rags...poverty and all that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8586361/Mahatma-Gandhi-set-non-white-person-British-currency.html

[Ken4155]

Personally I don't give a rats black hole who is on our currency. I don't frame it, hang it on my wall and admire it. Let whoever I give it to for purchases worry about whose fizzog is on it.

[naomi24]

23.40. How patronising to select not on merit but specifically BAME.

[jno]

tell Sunak, naomi, he's the one backing it.

[sanmac]

You're right, Ken; however, Gandhi seems to be taking a pounding on this thread as people want to get their tuppence-worth in.

[Baldric]

Thank you Rishi Sunak your efforts are really appreciated, not.

[sanmac]

If Sunak wants an Indian on a British coin surely he could have chosen a British one:

[Mozz71]

Putting to one side the usual gnashing of AB teeth at the thought of lefty scumback wokeism, in accordance with Rishi Sunak's desire to honor a great BAME person on a note, who would you lot choose? Britain isn't exactly overflowing with candidates, but this brave woman is worthy of consideration.


https://www.thoughtco.com/noor-inayat-khan-biography-4582812

[jim360]

// 23.40. How patronising to select not on merit but specifically BAME. //

Normally that would be fair, but since this is specifically a campaign meant to honour people from the historically oft-neglected minorities, then I don't see it as patronising at all.

[THECORBYLOON]

JIM, perhaps NAOMI was being facetious again?

[naomi24]

THECORBYLOON , //JIM, perhaps NAOMI was being facetious again?//

Not at all. In my opinion prioritising people on grounds of ethnicity is an insult to them. I’ve no objection to anyone being lauded on personal merit and for the right reasons, but ethnicity should never be a reason. That’s a sure way to exacerbate racism.

Jno, //tell Sunak, naomi, he's the one backing it.//

Have you told him what you think?

[davebro]

I understand he is to be on a coin - whatever that is!

[davebro]

"in accordance with Rishi Sunak's desire to honor a great BAME person on a note, who would you lot choose?"

What about Gina Miller !!!!

[Peter Pedant]

um..... sorry sahib
he was called the Bar in 1894 and practised as a lawyer in sarf efrica for a few years
so wandering around in a dhoti (*) was a bit of a rag
he was not that poor and er ragged

You are arguing about his image not the reality

[Peter Pedant]

// In my opinion prioritising people on grounds of ethnicity is an insult to them.//

the last secty of state for scotland was English ( no scots tories in parliament see?) and the scots certainly didnt like it !

but ho hum I suppose it is different within the UK

[jim360]

// I’ve no objection to anyone being lauded on personal merit and for the right reasons, but ethnicity should never be a reason. That’s a sure way to exacerbate racism. //

It depends on why they were overlooked to start with. The usual answer to that, sadly, is racism, in one form or another. Actively correcting those attitudes isn't exacerbating anything.

[naomi24]

Paying lip service - which is what this is - corrects nothing. It’s an exercise in being seen to do what is (fashionably) perceived to be the ‘right thing’.

[Peter Pedant]

but this brave woman is worthy of consideration.
https://www.thoughtco.com/noor-inayat-khan-biography-4582812

erm Reeshi is Hindu and this leddy is Muslim - so THAT is out.
( Gandhi and Jinna both knew in 1947 that if they said no no no, then they would be given their own countries to govern)

I thought the suggestion was facetious
but then I thought - - no this is AB - ter daaah !

[jim360]

Out of interest, which (BAME) British people, on their own merits, should feature on an issue of coins?

[bednobs]

well, my 8 year old asked me who it was on the back of a fiver and why the picture was there. I told her it was a great honour, and that you had to do something extraordinary to get on one. I told her she could be on a banknote one day if she did something extraordinary and her response was "what, like little mix?"
so perhaps little mix?

[youngmafbog]

Who cares, the Government are trying their hardest to get rid of cash anyway. Perhaps they should force Banks to put him on their Debit card :-)