Labour's fake £50 notes

Spotted here


(That picture doesn't seem to want to work, it's here http://twitpic.com/1fqmyv)

And here's his Lordship standing alongside the 'good idea' that's meant to make the Tories ideas look silly.



(That picture doesn't want to work either, it's here http://twitpic.com/1fql8g)

Both pictures from Niall Paterson, more on his Twitpics.
h/t Guido

The wording suggests that the box contains £200,000 that "The Tories will give away to the richest 300,000 estates".

Odd, don't you think, that the Labour Party would print pretend money and take pictures of it, and try to pretend that it's real money?

Let's hope they made it absolutely clear to all the reporters that it was fake cash, and let's hope all the reporters make clear that it was fake cash when they write about this 'photo op' because, according to the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981

14.
Offences of counterfeiting notes and coins.
— (1) It is an offence for a person to make a counterfeit of a currency note or of a protected coin, intending that he or another shall pass or tender it as genuine.

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