According to the Bank Of England it is an offence under the Currency and Banknotes Act 1928 (section 12) if: "any person prints, or stamps or by any like means impresses, on any bank note any words, letters or figures"

However this is a matter for the Police and the Courts as far as the BofE is concerned, and any sloganised notes remain legal tender and should be accepted by shops and will certainly be exchanged by High Street banks or the Bank of England itself.

So if anyone should come across notes with slogans like "Stop Bush's War", "End Illegal Israeli Occupation", "Free Palestine", "Find A Peaceful Solution", "Don't Believe The Hype", "Not In My Name", "Don't Attack Iraq" etc etc. then they should pass it on as legal tender and hope that it doesn't encourage other people to start writing similar slogans on their own banknotes.

It would surely be a terrible thing if this turned into a mass campaign and the Bank had to replace all these notes and the Government would be worried by the obvious strength of anti-war feeling in the country. This would be an awful misuse and subvertion of the Capitalist currency system.

So I plead with you all not to start writing slogans on banknotes and not to tell as many people as possible to do likewise. I don't want to be seen as a troublemaker, and now that I'm aware that it is illegal I recind any previous requests for people to do this vandalistic and subvertive act that I may have posted on this site in my ignorance.

Peace.