Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Prince Ed was dishing out the Duke of Edinburgh awards at Buck Palace when my daughter attended in 2022.

Oldies may recall a Maily conspiracy theory that Ted Heath caused inflation by decimalising the currency. Counting in base ten was also a sinister Continental innovation undermining our sovereignty.
Lots of potential for a similar vibe here by doing away with our good old British coppers.
Personally I’m less inclined to use cash when the price isn’t rounded.

Again, "What about the poor pensioners, won't anyone think of them?".

Let's be really generous and say that someone's 95. They've been dealing with ATMs and decimal currency since they were 42, and without ha'pennies since they were 55.

I’m guessing the price of minting the coins now exceeds their value.

I'll admit that I'll be as sad to see 'shrapnel' go as my dad was to see the demise of steam on the railways. But, just like my dad, I understand that there are genuine valid reasons for doing away with these things. I'm not sure that the average Fail reader is capable of being quite so grown up about it.

The Aussies & Kiwis got rid of their 1c & 2c coins (the latter also took out 5c coins) years ago and from what I see are surviving perfectly well. When paying in cash, total costs are rounded up or down to the nearest 5 (AU) or 10 (NZ) cents.

A little fact - Australia used their old 1 & 2 cent coins to make the bronze medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

I collect the ones I get in change and use them as markers in wargames.

Once in a while I take a bag of accumulated shrapnel coinage to one of those machines in Sainsbury's that automatically counts up all your loose change and gives you a voucher that you can use to buy cheap whisky in the store.

The mint issued a statement yesterday saying that the Mail story wasn't true but the Mail are still running with the story. Apparently they have not produced any new ones recently because there are already too many in circulation.

How would it hit pensioners harder than anyone else?

Smaller purses.

The Mail's ridiculous virtue signalling about copper coins is nothing whatsoever to do with the actual use of them or the alleged affect on bloody pensioners. It's about the loss of another supposely treasured slice of real Britain. Peter Hitchens will be along shortly with 750 words on the how it's a tragedy for real conservatives like him.

Surely the likes of Hitchins and Rees-Mogg will be happy to see the end of decimal coins and say it’s a sign that “we” want to return to l.s.d

I wouldn't give you tuppence for Hitchen's feelings.

The Eurozone still produces coppers although they ceased to be legal tender in the Netherlands for a few years now. No inflation resulted from this move.

Wheeling out the old favourites, very old.

Yawn.

Had to sideline the big story of the day; Meghan speaks some Spanish in South America.

They won't give up on creepy Uncle Addie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... dcast.html

Did Unity Mitford have sex with Hitler? The Mail's new podcast reveals every scandalous detail in the notorious debutante's unseen diary

For the past eight months, a team led by Sandra Parsons, the Mail's Literary Editor, have been working on the project to publish Unity's private musings for the first time.

A Mail podcast that debuted yesterday reveals Unity's own words at great length, allowing listeners to make up their own minds about her scandalous life.

Set across four episodes, Hitler's English Girlfriend: The Secret Diary of Unity Mitford explores every salacious detail recorded by the debutante.

And there's hope of an "heir to the H man".

A New Statesman article reported on the theory that she could have given birth in secret in a nursing home in rural Oxfordshire, and her child was then given up for adoption.

There was never any definitive proof for the claims.

But, as the Mail's new podcast reveals, Unity did get close enough to Hitler for them to have been more than friends behind closed doors.