There’s going to be a new face on the £50 note and these 21 reactions are on the money

The government had planned to scrap £50 notes – presumably because they’re only used to pay ransoms in films – but in a shockingly unprecedented u-turn, decided to keep them and give the public a chance to choose who will be on them, other than Her Maj, obviously. First female prime minister of the UK, Baroness Thatcher, has been mooted as a possibility, alongside Princess Diana, Stephen Hawking and David Bowie.

This is how Twitter reacted to the whole thing.

1.

I suppose if they put Thatcher's face on the £50 note it'll stop young Conservatives from burning them in front of the homeless.

— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) October 15, 2018

2.

Can someone please come and collect their blog, it’s shouting at people about Thatcher again pic.twitter.com/KlxOQLhIQp

— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) October 15, 2018

3.

I see there’s a campaign to get Thatcher onto £50 notes. Presumably the push is coming from Young Conservatives wanting to set fire to them in front of homeless people? pic.twitter.com/kIzitM7JEn

— Mark Cockerton (@CockertonMark) October 15, 2018

4.

The only positive of having Thatcher on the 50 is that most of the millions she fucked over for good will never see one anyway.

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) October 15, 2018

5.

Of the 107 billion people who have ever lived on this horrible planet I'm struggling to think of more than a handful less deserving to be on the £50 note than Margaret Thatcher.

— Adam Kay (@amateuradam) October 15, 2018

6.

Proposed new £50 note? Peace&Love pic.twitter.com/N69xSj5vhG

— Justice4Sen (@SenJustice4) October 15, 2018

7.

PUT BREXIT ON THE NEW NOTE. PUT A RABID DOG. PUT A GARBAGE CAN ON FIRE. https://t.co/QBPUKD2lou

— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) October 15, 2018

8.

Boris Johnson must be torn. Margaret Thatcher on a fifty pound note. I imagine it’s going to be a lot harder for him to burn them in front of homeless people from now on. Not impossible but definitely harder.

— amanda abbington (@CHIMPSINSOCKS) October 16, 2018

9.

The only paper I’d have her on would be 3 ply and highly absorbent. pic.twitter.com/SQGE8ziRUg

— The Bloody Remains of DocHackenbush (@DocHackenbush) October 15, 2018

10.

OK Tories. I'll cut a deal. You can have Thatcher on the £50 if we can have Karl Marx on a twenty. And Ed Miliband on a tuppence.

— Rob Manuel (@robmanuel) October 15, 2018

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