On 2010\08\09 03:52, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
wrote:
Tescos self-serve tills in London accept Scottish money, incidentally.
And I'm sure that self-serve tills will accept English notes in Scotland,
Ireland and the Isle of Man.
I wonder if those same tills will accept Northern Irish notes outside of
Northern Ireland, however.
I would imagine the tills are uniform across the country for cost
reasons, which is why the London ones accept Scottish money.
No idea about tills but there are reports of Scottish retailers declining
Northern Irish notes, which does make the Scottish complaint seem a little
hollow.
A while back a Scottish MP brought a Private Members' Bill that
sought to make it a requirement for all retailers throughout the UK who
accept English notes to accept Scottish notes on the same basis (carefully
structured to avoid the issue of legal tender);
If the Scots would just start using English money, wouldn't that remove
any problem for the Scots without legislation? It seems like his aim is
not to solve problems for the Scots but to force English people to
accept as money portraits of people famous for nothing but killing the
English. The English, of course, would never stoop to putting pictures
of someone famous for killing Scots on our money.