Hold a referendum on specific parameters of independence of Bank of England

Hold a referendum on specific parameters of independence of Bank of England — 16 signatures. Status: rejected.

Petition background

Now that we know that the democratically elected UK government is powerless to act on banknote design, in particular the replacement of Churchill with a bird, the public should vote on actions of unelected BoE via the means of a referendum, which Parliament and Government have authority to call.

Additional details

Much of the British public would prefer to keep the image of Winston Churchill on the banknotes. However, petitions have been rejected on the pretext of independent BoE’s authority over banknote design. BoE claims to have consulted a panel of experts, but this is not democratic as we cannot vote BoE or its experts out. We should therefore go to the ultimate democratic exercise and consider BoE jurisdiction, and unelected quangos which run much of the UK in general, in a national referendum.

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