Scottish Money

[daftdog]

Yeah, veered a bit off topic there Malky, due to a small remark about the area.

Maybe residents of Govan are still waiting for home deliveries of Chinese food ordered off menu's printed by Thomas McAnea

[Malky]

Yeah, veered a bit off topic there Malky, due to a small remark about the area.

Maybe residents of Govan are still waiting for home deliveries of Chinese food ordered off menu's printed by Thomas McAnea

I'm away back to the lambing - it's not as confusing

Malky

[daftdog]

Malky.

Thomas McAnea was nicknamed Hologram Tam and was one of the men jailed at the end of last year for making forgeries of Scottish £20 (RBS) and other bank notes at a print works in Glasgow. Other printing work carried out there included Chinese Takeaway menu's.

[petewick]

To be fair petewick the guy that served my son was nice enough, the problem is with the shop not the staff.
My friend down here also Scottish like myself, works in the local chippy, she has been told by her boss not to accept Scottish notes because of the amount of fakes. Imagine how she feels having to say that to a fellow Scot.

Well the one that "served" me was just saying no for the very reason that he was allowed to.
And as it was 26 years ago, I was pretty young, and this guy made it very plain that he did not
want Scots or their money in his shop.
Imagine that happening nowadays, I could have had him for racism.

[Govangirl]

I'm lost What's Govan got to do with Scottish Notes?

Malky

Exactly!!!! May be that as a youngster growing up there, I never saw any, contrary to Ionnsaigh's view!!!

[hugh]

Plain fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people who live and work in England have never seen Scottish banknotes and wouldn't know
a Scottish fiver from Adam's fig-leaf. So if you attempt to buy something in a shop or petrol station in England with it, there will be questions asked - it's only natural. Going on a journey? Plan ahead.

[ionnsaigh]

Plain fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people who live and work in England have never seen Scottish banknotes and wouldn't know
a Scottish fiver from Adam's fig-leaf. So if you attempt to buy something in a shop or petrol station in England with it, there will be questions asked - it's only natural. Going on a journey? Plan ahead.

Aye fair enough - only another example of cultural discrepancies within the United Kingdom - If they can't except our notes after 300 years of union - then in my humble opinion the union has failed. We accept English money they should extend similar respect. They don't - they haven't - they never will. Arise Scotland.

[bill]

Ionns,as you hate all things English I take it that you never set foot over the border.If this is infact the case, then the non acceptance of Scottish bank notes will be of no consequence to you.

So why get so upset?....

Chill man,go with the flow and extend your life expectancy.

[Malky]

Maybe we'll all be using using euros soon anyway

Malky

[daftdog]

Maybe we'll all be using using euros soon anyway

Malky

I will be in about 7 weeks time, so i don't need to worry about Scottish forgeries until i come back for my holidays

[MKT]

I suggest when in England don't take the thing with the money to heart they don't mean to turn you away or dislike the Scots.
It's just as you say, they don't see it very often, use it to get as many freebies as you can, make sure you eat your chips, lick your ice cream, open your coke before you pull out your Scottish fake

[Govangirl]

Just you be careful when you pull out that Scottish fake!!!!!!

[Beachcomber]

The Bank of England would dearly like to see an end to Scottish notes, I'm sure, hence the Chancellor's recent drive to force Scottish banks to lodge funds to cover their issued notes with the Bank of England for seven days a week instead of the current three. Link to BBC News website

I believe this is intended to force Scottish banks to abandon issuing their own notes; preferring to keep control of their own funds. It would be a shame if this did happen because, other reasons aside, I like the designs of the Scottish notes far more than the BofE notes, which appear bland by comparison.

On my occasional trips back south of the border to visit family, friends and customers I've rarely had any problem having Scottish notes accepted, coming from a region which has a strong local Scottish immigrant population. I guess they're just a much more common sight there than somewhere like Cornwall or the home counties.

I also like to make sure I take a fistful of £1 notes with me, to hand over the bar at my old local.

We accept English money they should extend similar respect. They don't - they haven't - they never will.

Just out of interest, Mick, what do you do for a living? I'd hazard a guess that you're not self-employed or in some other position whereby if you were to accept payment with a forged note it would cost you directly. If I owned, say, a petrol station in Kent and someone paid for £60 of unleaded with forged Scottish notes I'd be more than a little bit miffed. BofE notes aren't any less likely to be forged, I'd say, but at least I'd be likely to have seen a lot more and be better equipped to spot a forgery.

[ionnsaigh]

Beachcomber, fair point.

[ionnsaigh]

Ionns,as you hate all things English I take it that you never set foot over the border.If this is infact the case, then the non acceptance of Scottish bank notes will be of no consequence to you.

So why get so upset?....

Chill man,go with the flow and extend your life expectancy.

Bill, your wrong to suggest that I hate all things English. I would rather have an English socialist than a Scottish fascist. My discontent lies squarely with all things labelled British. I do admit having problems with union jack waving Scots. They appear to ignore all things Celtic. Similarly this exists in occupied Ireland also - were one section of the population choose to ignore their own historical culture language etc. So I suppose that this could be misconstrued as being in some way racist. When in actual fact - I try only to raise Scottish consciousness.