Britain Never Decimalises

Probably meant thick in the skull, which still is quite unearned given that she was probably much smarter than the unions she crushed.
She was a Chemist who'd been tutored at University by a female Nobel Laureate, who was also a left wing feminist, and could actually undesrand the scientific briefings being given. She was the first major political leader to accept anthrogenic global warming as a fact (in the early to mid eighties!!!) and started to enact some policies to reduce CO2 emissions, though it wasn't couched in modern terms. She was also instrumental in getting the CFC ban to be effective by persuading rich nations to help pay for poor nations to dispose of old fridges / air cons etc in a proper manner instead of just dumping them. Have a look at when Ronnie and Maggie saved the world on You Tube, quite interesting.

On the original topic of the thread there were some fringe BREXITEERS who wanted to bring back £sd (and all Imperial measurements) as Britain had only decimalised to be able to join the Common Market.
 

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When decimalisation came into force, the shilling (bob) = 5p, the two-shilling piece (florin) = 10p.,and I think the six-penny bit (tanner) = 2.5p, remained legal tender, and stayed in circulation for some time. The half-crown was sorely missed. I miss the fact that the old coinage had nick-names, while the new ones don't.

£1 coin shall always be a Brass Margaret for some of us.
 
Of course, I was just giving the unions with all their skulduggery a benefit of doubt as their their level of education and knowledge.

To be fair, the skulduggery was a two-way thing. The level of resources thrown at undermining the Unions by MI5 infiltration, for example, was truly astonishing, particularly when one considers that this was at the same time as the various alphabet soup factions in Northern Ireland were playing silly buggers with assorted bombs around the place. (Oldfield and Rimmington go into rather more details. Indeed, one of Stella Rimmington's earliest jobs was to destablise the NUM from the inside). So it wasn't one-way traffic.
 
On the original topic of the thread there were some fringe BREXITEERS who wanted to bring back £sd (and all Imperial measurements) as Britain had only decimalised to be able to join the Common Market.
Decimalisation was prior to joining the Common Market. In fact the base legislation goes back to Victoria's reign. Hence the Florin of the 1850s which was early marked as 1/10 of a pound.
 
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