I wonder if i could go into my bank and claim my 240 pennies of solid sterling silver for every IOU pound they owe me, i guess not, but why not ?, i suppose they have changed the law, have they.

I may have been a tad slack in researching that post....

Just for trampie

The last time we went back on to the Gold Standard which was even more stupid and arrogant than our insistence that sterling had to be worth 3DM, as opposed to 2 - 2.5DM in more recent times.

Im sure i've seen it somewhere that lots of the Europeans [including the Brits obviously] tended to have their money tied to silver [the rest of the world, gold], i know we did go over to gold at one point late in the day, now our money is apparently tied to securities, i think as an individual i would rather it was tied to gold or silver so i could go into the bank and say 'i want my bar of gold please' or 'i want my sterling silver pennies please'.

‎[We seek] a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master’s man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a world, in which all would be living in equality of condition and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all—the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth. — William Morris