Re: OT: Stamp collectors?

woodavens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx had it:

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:51:05 GMT, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx had it:

The reasons for the NI banks to issue their own notes are local
pride, blah, blah, blah, etc., but above all cost. It is cheaper for
the banks to print notes than it is for them to buy Bank of England
notes.

One wonders why it isn't the responsibility of the state to print the
bank notes.

Can't have the state printing money. That's politics. They might get
a taste for it.

Too late. The idiots have just voted to have the Other Place
infected with politicos instead of relatively ordinary people.

--
David
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