Queen's head to disappear from stamps?

[max_tranmere]

Rodders, you tell it like I think it.

[max_tranmere]

beutelwolf, from a senimental viewpoint I think it is important it remains British and that the Monarch's head remains on the stamps. It seems to me that everything will be gone eventually - next with be the Royal Mint. The pound would likely have gone by now had Rupert Murdoch not demanded it be retained. Imagine British stamps with American baseball teams on them and our coins with pictures of powerful and wealthy Japanese businessmen emblazened on them. Can't wait.

[max_tranmere]

Spider. Tesco Mail I could live with, at least it is Briitsh. Jack Cohen who started Tesco was from north London if I remember correctly - the first two letters of his surname, CO, are the last two letters of the name Tesco. The first three come from the first product he stocked, tea from a company called T E Stockwell. A bit of trivia there. lol.

[max_tranmere]

oej. I suppose someone may not have to be very pro-royal to still be in favour of having the Monarch's head on the stamps. As I said earlier it is a sentimental thing, to do with the country. That image represents Britain. Not terribly pro-royal people I would imagine would still view that image on the stamps as important. If they could find something equivilant then I think most people would still be happy: like shots of Canterbury Catherdral, the Pennines, Houses of Parliament, Blackpool tower, etc, to grace the stamps.

[spider]

So it's Jack Cohen's head on the stamps then?

Suppose that's better than the Tesco heiress Dame Shirley Porter.

Today I buy my Electricity from EDF (Electricit? de France), my Gas from E:on (the name of a German Utility provider), and in a few years time I'm sure my postman will be wearing a "Deutsche Post" or "TNT" uniform.

What the stamps look like won't matter. The new owners aren't going to be interested in providing a public service collecting and delivering Birthday Cards from Granny. They want the bulk mailings, door to door leaflets etc, etc.

If you can still buy a stamp you'll be paying two or three times as much for it then than you are now, and it will have some multinational's logo on it.

[andy at handiwork]

So a man whose companies are structured in such a way as to avoid as much UK tax as possible, and who isn't even a British citizen, is allowed to dictate British government policy?

[beutelwolf]

max_tranmere wrote:

> beutelwolf, from a senimental viewpoint I think it is important
> it remains British and that the Monarch's head remains on the
> stamps.

To pretend that something is in order when it ain't?
It would be a lie!

> It seems to me that everything will be gone eventually
> - next with be the Royal Mint. The pound would likely have gone
> by now had Rupert Murdoch not demanded it be retained.

who is neither a British citizen nor a British resident...

> Imagine
> British stamps with American baseball teams on them and our
> coins with pictures of powerful and wealthy Japanese
> businessmen emblazened on them.

That's highly unlikely, speaking as a former stamp collector.

What you are mostly likely to get are things such as:
stamps commemorating the n-hundred anniversary of the death/birth of composer/poet/painter/scientist Malfalda Higginbottom, a series of stamps about British engineering achievements, a series of stamps with images taken from seaside postcards, a series of stamps with varieties of trees/dogs/steam engines/dead movie stars, a series of stamps of stylised sport in action to coincide with the olympics, etc.

[max_tranmere]

andy, I might have made my last comment sound like I'm in favour of Murdoch, I am not. I have condemned him numerous times before. He is a controlling, egotistical, undemocratic bastard. I just mentioned that it was because of him that we still have the pound, this wan't because he think sit iwould be good for Britian, but he just prefers it. Co-incidentally I want the pound retained aswell, but for differnt reasons as to why Murdoch wants it kept. He said to Tony Blair prior to the 1997 election that his newspaper empire would back him for PM if he wouldn't scrap the pound. Murdoch is a c**t.

[max_tranmere]

beutelwolf, see the comment I've just posted for my views on Rupert Murdoch. // If the things that would appear on stamps are like what you've listed then I am happy with that because at least they are British images.

[max_tranmere]

Dame Shirley Porter is Jack Cohen's daughter as far as I recall.

On this issue of privatisation of the post, I wonder if there will be an obligation for the new company/companies to continue to provide a service in remote areas - areas that are not cost effective and that currently have to be subsidised by the more profitable regions. I can see deliveries to remote Scottish islands, for example, coming to an end - and that will be a shame.