Bank of England £100,000,000 note

That a lot of security for something no one can spend

Huh. The dimensions are that of a sheet of A4 paper. It would be hilarious if it were just a piece of printer paper with £100,000,000 printed on it!

I have to say, some of the song and dance around money is just baffling to me. Aren’t the Scottish and Northern Irish pounds already legally defined as being equivalent to GBP and accepted as legal tender?

I get that some English and Welsh businesses might be suspicious of them because they’re unfamiliar, but what is having a piece of paper with the boss of the bank’s signature on it in a safe somewhere that most people don’t even know exists going to do about that? It seems to me that this is a problem better solved with an information campaign. If they can’t take the Bank of England’s word for it that this is real money, then the very existence of a £100,000,000 note or even the value of the British Pound itself become suspect.