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... Are too be released next year (just saw a bit on it on the breakfast news) - they are polymer rather than paper, at long last.
But they haven't decided who to show on the back of them all yet, so: who would you have? The only criteria is that they must be famous, and dead.
I'm voting for Justin Bieber. Only one thing we have to do first... : InnocentWhistleSmiley:
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I would like to see my favourite famous dead British guy: Dave Allen! 
But then I guess ten quid would only be worth nine and a half... 
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Dave Allen was not British - he was Irish
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You're right, my bad! But he WAS funny all the same... 
I stand corrected (and sit likewise)! 
modified 23-Jan-15 7:06am.
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Brunel is certainly a good choice. I would add explorers such as James Cook, and scientists such as James Watt. Dead politicians and scribblers need not apply!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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While I agree with you in general, I could think of an exception for that specific politician in your sig.
If for no other reason the plethora of brilliant quotes he produced.
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Winston Churchill was a statesman, not a politician. The difference between them is that a politician thinks of the next election (and the hell with the next generation), while a statesman thinks of the next generation, even at the cost of the next election.
I could give numerous examples both past and present, but that would be trespassing on Soapbox territory...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That would indeed be an interesting discussion, but I wouldn't have anything to add to it. I fully agree with you.
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Robin Cooke - one of the few UK government officials who has shown moral fibre.
Oops political post in the lounge
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GuyThiebaut wrote: one of the few UK government officials who has shown moral fibre.
Well he certainly showed his mistress some fibre.
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Yes...
I conveniently forgot about that in order to perpetuate my black and white view of the world.
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I'll be running off in the UK to grab a Jane Austen banknote (5 £ if I'm not wrong). My GF does like Jane Austen a lot, I can't even count how many editions both in English and in Italian of her novel we (she) possess 
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I think that Churchill has been lined up for the fiver
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Bing-ing it up (no Google in this company) it looks like she'd have the 10£ in fact.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm voting for Justin Bieber. Only one thing we have to do first...
Surely, Piers Morgan would fit into that category as well???
But seriously, if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed... 
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Johnny J. wrote: if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed..
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Prepare to be disappointed - He was on the £20 ages ago and IIRC another provision for choosing people is that they haven't already been used on a previous note.
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So that leaves Piers Morgan, you say, huh?
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That's going to be interesting some time inthe future when we run out of 'noble' people and start having to resort to putting Cheryl Cole and Jade Goody on them.
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Johnny J. wrote: But seriously, if Shakespeare isn't on one of them, I would be really disappointed..
I don't think they can use fictitious people 
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OriginalGriff wrote: they are polymer rather than paper
I would have preferred Liquid Nitrogen. 
Anyways, how about Rudyard Kipling and/or Ian Fleming?
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They've already chosen Jane Austen to my utter dismay. I tried reading Sense and Sensibility once and just thought this is just useless. If you are going to write satire, just go for the jugular, don't hide it behind a veneer of respectability. Still, it panders to the UK populace's desire top live in the 18th century. Of course they are all fantasising about living above stairs, but in truth most of us were on the other side of the green baize door working in appalling conditions to keep the aristos in the lap of luxury, or increasingly laboring in factories with few actual rights. If they wanted a female novelist then Emily Bronte would have been a better choice.
My Left-field answer would be John Snow[^] - not the Stark on the wall (too fictional) or the Channel 4 TV presenter (too alive).
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