It says
something about this country that there is more fuss about the grammar printed on
the commemorative Brexit fifty pence coin than there is about the existence of
the coin itself. What is slightly more interesting however is that this
relatively low denomination was chosen to mark the occasion. The way Leavers go
on you’d think nothing less than a £2 coin would be sufficiently prestigious.
Or perhaps we should re-work all our currency to include the message, sans
Oxford comma and all? The ultimate irony is that coins themselves are on the
way out so what we have is a symbolic if fairly meaningless gesture on a low
value coin in a format that is fading out.
