CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE: UK Scrubbing Winston Churchill and Other Great Britons From Nation’s Money

Cultural Defeat and Surrender.

This is a national disgrace and good example of how the West has come to hate itself and the people who made it great.

Cultural collapse can’t be too far off. What’s next, remove Nelson from atop his column and replace him with a sheep? That shouldn’t cause any divisiveness and it would serve as a reminder of what is in charge of the Bank of England. (Paul Schnee)

If you want something emblematic of cultural and civilizational decline, it would be hard to think of an exhibit more revealing than this. GB News: The Bank of England has confirmed Sir Winston Churchill will be scrapped from banknotes and replaced with images of wildlife. The central bank will soon ask the public which animals they want to appear on the next set of £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes – but confirmed the wartime hero Prime Minister would not be staying. The move to replace historical figures with animals was described as “significant” and “overdue” by celebrity bird-watcher Nadeem Perera, who sits on the bank’s panel of wildlife experts who will choose which English species will appear on the next set of banknotes…. While the monarch will remain on the notes’ front, the decision will remove historical figures including Sir Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner, and Alan Turing (GB News).

David Strom: Britain’s history and culture are being systematically erased, with the latest outrage being the removal of Winston Churchill from the banknotes. His visage will be replaced by a bird (Hot Air).

Rod Dreher: This is a MUCH bigger deal than many people think. It is the destruction of a nation’s history and culture by its elites, who hate it (Dreher).

Sorry? We’re going to replace our greatest ever Briton, the man who saved us from the Nazis, with a bloody hedgehog? This is ridiculous (Morgan).

Civilisational Erasure: Images of Great Britons to be Removed From Nation’s Money
A member of staff from the the Bank of England holds a specimen £5 bank note featuring SiGetty Images

By: Oliver JJ Lane, Breitbart, 11 Mar 2026:

The Bank of England is to end the tradition of printing images of great Britons on the verso of paper money notes, stating it has decided to proceed with pictures of wildlife instead after it wanted something “not divisive”.

Sir Winston Churchill will no longer grace the pockets of Britons after it was announced the 50-year practice of printing portraits of famous Britons on the opposite side of notes from that of the reigning monarch is to end. The Bank of England, which issues money on behalf of the government, said in a statement on the change, emphasised that the change was supported by their research into public taste, which showed that images of native wildlife would be less “divisive” than historic figures.

They said the future designs had to meet their criteria, which included that new pictures symbolised the UK, resonated with the public, and “is not divisive: The theme should not involve imagery that would reasonably be offensive to, or exclude, any groups.”

In recent memory wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill was uncontroversial in his position as the “greatest Briton of all time” but, evidently, with the UK shorn of its uniting common culture this no longer applies. Indeed, the statue of Sir Winston in Parliament square has been repeatedly vandalised in recent years.

While Britain’s paper money originally only showed an image of the sitting monarch, from 1970 the verso, or back side, also began to show portraits of famous Britons. Those chosen for the honour has changed with ever-greater frequency: those first figures chosen, The Bard William Shakespeare and the victor of the Battle of Waterloo the Duke of Wellington graced Britain’s money for over 20 years each, and now Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing is up for replacement with an animal after just six.

Apart from artists and military leaders, and unsurprisingly given the history of the people of the islands, perhaps the greatest source of great Britons for the money has been engineers and scientists. Among them were giants of scientific history; Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Christopher Wren, George Stephenson, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Boulton & Watt, and Alan Turing.

Through history, money has been associated with national self-image and the designs of coins and notes used by monarchs and then governments. Yet money being progressively divorced from place or people is rapidly becoming the norm. Notes for the European Union single currency are designed to be so of ‘anywhere’ that the images of bridges that feature on them are works of fiction.