XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.talk.royalty, alt.conspiracy   
   XPost: alt.freemasonry   
   From: don-aitken@freeuk.com   
      
   On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:19:13 GMT, "Rico"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"PaulusAr"  wrote in message   
   >news:1169217416.175019.245630@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...   
      
   >> Nowadays if a German, for example, goes to Spain on holiday, he does   
   >> not need a passport and does not need to convert his currency (losing a   
   >> % to the bank). A Briton needs a passport and has to convert his pounds   
   >> into Euros. How this benefits the average Briton is beyond my   
   >> understanding. Farsically a Briton needs a passport to enter Gibraltar   
   >> which is British territory and part of the EU. A Spaniard or any other   
   >> Schengen national can enter Gibraltar with only an ID card. Britons   
   >> don't want ID cards because they believe that the British police will   
   >> suddenly turn into the Gestapo and demand to see people's "papers"   
   >> without any legally justified reason. They don't want to enter the Euro   
   >> because seeing the Queen's face on currency   
   >   
   >The Queens face could still be on Euros made in the UK.  If The King of   
   >Spain and the Queen of The Netherlands can have their heads on Euro made in   
   >their realms then surely that would tell the Poms that they can have Lizzy   
   >on their Euros to.   
   >   
   The immemorial tradition of the Queen's head on our money was invented   
   by the europhobes quite recently. There is simply no such tradition.   
   No British banknotes before the 1960s had the Queen's head on them,   
   and no previous sovereign's head had ever featured on them.   
      
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