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Is the skull on the new £2 coin a reference to the death of the Labour Party?

Normal Bates. Updated January 7th, 2016

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Here’s the new £2 coin – great isn’t it? Totally rad and metal with the skulls and stuff.

However we’ve heard a conspiracy theory, it’s a bit odd but here’s the “evidence”:

Notionally the coin is a tribute to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, specifically Yorick the dead court jester, however it is still a big deathy skull and it’s placed right next to a rose: the symbol of the Labour Party.

Easy to dismiss as a coincidence, especially when the rose is also the “National Flower of England” but then yesterday in Prime Ministers Question Time, David Cameron absolutely hammered home the connections between Labour and Shakespeare. Here’s his full quote:

“It was a revenge reshuffle so it was going to be As You Like It. I think though we can conclude it’s turned into something of a Comedy of Errors, perhaps Much Ado About Nothing?

“There will be those who worry – Love’s Labour’s Lost.”

Could the Tory party have persuaded the Royal Mint to design this coin like this, so when we spend money we subconsciously think that “Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party” are dying?

What is certainly true, The new British £2 coin design has got a lot of reaction on the internet. Why? BECAUSE IT HAS A SKULL ON IT! A FREAKING SKULL!

Here’s the other theories we’ve picked up from reading the internet for the secret meaning behind this coin:

  • A tribute to Lemmy or Guns and Roses. Most reactions generally approve of the goth/metal stylings of the coin.
  • Illuminati symbolism. Freemasonry symbolism. Satanic symbolism. Rosicrucian symbolism. Generally The Establishment being a death cult laughing at the proles. Hey, the labour party conspiracy theory is mild compared to some stuff out there.
  • Pirates! Yarr! Booty! etc
  • Something about Karl Marx saying that capital is dead labour. Labour as in workers rather than the political party.
  • “The Queen is looking old :(”

But our favourite comment is “there’s skulls on our money. Are we the baddies?” – a reference to a Mitchell and Webb sketch about the Nazi ‘Totenkopf’.

And finally: The famous quote is “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio” and not the often misquoted, “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.” So remember that fact to bore the pants off your mates when you correct them in the pub going, “aha! you’re wrong” and they never invite you out again.