SUPPORTERS of the campaign to put Margaret Thatcher’s face on the new Bank of England plastic £50 note were dealt a fatal blow yesterday when the Bank announced that it was only looking for famous British scientists to be nominated.
Even by his ludicrous standards of brown-nosing, what Thatcher campaign cheerleader Jacob Rees-Mogg did next was vomit-inducing.
The Old Etonian Brexiteer immediately tweeted: “Margaret Thatcher was a chemist, one of only two scientists to be Prime Minister and is the ideal choice.” Pass the sick bag...
The campaign was started by blogger Guido Fawkes and his petition on change.org managed just 18,300 signatures in 17 days before the Bank pulled the plug yesterday.
The rules for nominating scientists for the £50 note say nominees – whose name can be put forward by any member of the public - must have contributed to the field of science and “inspire people, not divide them”.
Thatcher’s only contribution to science – she only got a second-class Chemistry degree – was to say at her graduation: “I should have read law.” Nor did she invent Mr Whippy ice cream as has been erroneously claimed for years.
She was, however, a by-word for divisiveness. Your heroine lost Jacob – get over it.
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