One pound will now consist of 20 shillings rather than 100 pence. No longer will Europe dictate the coins in our pocket as common sense takes back control. Today we bring back a proud denomination with a long and glorious history, and restore mental arithmetic to its rightful place in the curriculum. Given that hardly anybody is using cash at present and everything's gone contactless instead, 2021 is the perfect time to turn back the clock.īefore the travesty of decimalisation on 15th February 1971 Britain's currency was a simple matter of 240 pence or 20 shillings to the pound.
Instead he's taken advantage of the pandemic and introduced the change overnight as a fait accompli. The Chancellor didn't announce this up front, obviously, because whingeing woke millennials would only have complained. Undecimalisation Day is here, restoring the shilling to its rightful place and inspiring pride in a shopkeeping nation.
Today we right the wrong of decimal currency, introduced 50 years ago, and revert to proper coinage using traditional numbers. Good morning as the sun rises on a bold new dawn for Britain's currency.
