The Bank of England has been accused of "severing British history" after announcing plans to consider removing historic figures from UK bank notes.The Bank has launched a consultation into whether Sir Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, artist JMW Turner and code-breaker Alan Turing should continue to appear on the reverse side of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00Rafe, I'm assuming the notion of dropping Winnie to replace him with a tranny fills you full of repulsion.
00:08Yes, I personally, you know, as a Churchill historian, would love Churchill to be on the notes permanently.
00:13But yes, this is just part of this continuing war on our history that we often discuss on this channel.
00:19It's a long war and it's just basically another attempt to gradually or not so gradually, actually, erase or rewrite our history,
00:26undermine our historical figures and events from the public spaces.
00:31And, you know, the imagery on banknotes, on our passports and the coins and stamps and all those sorts of things,
00:38they've traditionally always served to inspire pride in the nation.
00:41And those are really powerful symbols of our sovereignty and our identity, just as much as the national flag or the royal coat of arms.
00:50And they make a statement about our nation, who we are,
00:53and they help to shape an understanding of our identity and achievements and our heroes.
01:00And it speaks a lot, of course, to the changing fads and this desire we now see by our institutions,
01:06including the Bank of England, to create a new British identity, which has completely severed from the past.
01:12I wonder, Rafe, we've had this conversation before.
01:16I wonder if a lot of this now is starting to feel a bit deliberate.
01:19Like, they know that Winston Churchill is worshipped and adored as one of the greatest ever Brits.
01:24They know we cherish the union flag.
01:26They know we cherish our national anthems.
01:28Is that specifically why you think they're targeted?
01:31That's precisely why it's been targeted.
01:33That's what this is all about.
01:36The Bank of England is just part of this long march through the institution.
01:40The Bank of England, remember, in its new Bank of England Museum, well, it has a permanent exhibition on slavery.
01:47And we need to understand that the elites who control our institutions bear no comparison to the generations that occupied those institutions.
01:55They're cuckoos in the nest.
01:56They're embarrassed by Britain's history and its historical figures.
02:00And these people used to understand love of nation, and they've replaced that with national self-loathing.
02:06And so what they're doing is they're doing their best to create a new British identity, which is completely severed from those roots, and is based upon new foundational myths.
02:15Britain is a post-revolutionary society, I try to explain to people.
02:19The institutions are completely different to how they used to be.
02:22And these new myths that they're creating are essentially that diversity-built Britain.
02:27Rishi Sunak even held up a 50-pence coin saying that, you may remember, that Britain's always been a nation of immigrants, that diversity is our greatest center.
02:36Okay, Ray, Haydn Manku, we have to leave you there.
02:38Simply run out of time.
02:39It's always a pleasure to have your company.
02:40Pay more to see you on the next hour.
02:41Don't go anywhere.
02:41Don't go anywhere.
02:42Okay, I'll be happy to see you on the next hour.
