Fantastic news for rare coin collectors today with the announcement that the Royal Mint will soon be releasing a special, commemorative silver coin, “The Judas”, to pay Labour MPs who vote for May’s Brexit deal when it returns to parliament next week.
“It’s been a rushed job, I don’t mind telling you,” Lord Haw-Haw, head of the design team behind the coin, told us, “we had to pick the right historical link as as theme. We had Profumo, Chamberlain, that guy that betrayed William Wallace, Cromwell (not the Civil War era Cromwell, the genocidal maniac that came after) and just a raft of others on the list, but in the end it had to be a biblical theme.”
It seems the biblical theme was chosen because it could be assumed as the lowest common denominator in terms of shared cultural knowledge, and just because it was the right fit.
“Our graphics guy, old O Moseley, had a lot of fun working up the images. He really wanted to get the tone right. This is why these are the first silver coins to feature colours. They really hit you in the eye.”
The coins are not just for numismatic nerds though, as they’ve been designed with specific politicians in mind.
“Clearly any Labour MP who is bought off to vote for May’s deal, even though anyone with half a brain knows that any Brexit will punish the most vulnerable hardest, can be accused of not putting the longer term interests of their constituency first, but their own short term calculations. Or of course, they could be a genuine Lexiter loon who hasn’t noticed the way the world has evolved since the 1970’s and actually vote for the deal out of misguided ideology. I don’t think they should be paid with silver.”
But how many coins will MPs be paid if they’re bought off by May with funds she should have been spending in their towns and regions before now anyway?
“Why thirty pieces of silver of course,” Lord Haw-Haw replied, “not a piece more and not a piece less.”