Great Britain: Brown banishes 300-year-old tradition by removing Britannia from our 50p coin

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 26, 2008 | SIMON McGEE and GLEN OWEN

[Stoat]

Last night, the Treasury attempted to gloss over the reform by insisting the Britannia symbol would return for future Mint runs.

But critics said it was depressing that it would not be the default design on the tails side of a British circulation coin for the first time since 1672.

Placing Britannia in a Burkha for awhile is more important than maintaining an unbroken tradition, I suppose......

[Old Sarge]

This is the only thing that will be on your coins, Limies...

[DoughtyOne]

Death of the West watch...

[mrsmel]

He really, underneath it all, hates his country, doesn’t he? An entire class of people have somehow gotten into office who hate Britain and all she stood for. I’m not conspiracy-minded, but I could be convinced.

[Brad from Tennessee]

“It is all too typical of a Government with an inadequate sense of British pride and an ignorance of history to want to do away with such a symbol.”

The pathological impulse of “progressives” is to run around fixing things that aren’t broken.

[Stoat]

He really, underneath it all, hates his country, doesn’t he? An entire class of people have somehow gotten into office who hate Britain and all she stood for. I’m not conspiracy-minded, but I could be convinced.

FReeper ccmay has some insightful perspectives on the demographic makeup of the current British Government.  Perhaps he can be cajoled into dropping by and lending his opinion?   :-)

[Berlin_Freeper]

I’m against it. I like for the British to remain British. The Germans to remain German. The French to remain French. Heck even for the Irish to remain Irish. And so on...

[mrsmel]

I’d love to read it.

[Defendingliberty]

Doing it so Muslim man will be able to use the coins?

[max americana]

He hates his own country?

Wait til you see a Dumocrat president...

[hinckley buzzard]

But critics said it was depressing that it would not be the default design on the tails side of a British circulation coin for the first time since 1672.

Depressing? It's a damn shame.

[Stoat]

This is the only thing that will be on your coins, Limies...

There was a time when I had hope for PM Brown, mainly due to his strongly supportive statements about the war on terror, his enthusiastic support for President Bush and his very congenial tone toward the USA, but just like Blair, he's letting his own country down.....

Brown hails Bush's war (Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers glowing endorsement)

Gordon Brown I love the USA (wants to make ties even stronger)

[mrsmel]

Well I don’t doubt that. We’ll get what we deserve for letting one be elected, just as Britain got what they elected. But I’d like to see even a ‘rat President try to remove “In God We Trust” from the money.

And we still have our guns :D

[monkeyshine]

ROFL - I love that coin with the spy-on-your-citizenry camera on it. :-)

[Clintonfatigued]

Gordon Brown is making Tony Blair look like Margaret Thatcher.

[A_Former_Democrat]

And Americans to remain Americans.

[americanophile]

[max americana]

>Well I don’t doubt that. We’ll get what we deserve for letting one be elected, just as Britain got what they elected. But I’d like to see even a ‘rat President try to remove “In God We Trust” from the money.

And we still have our guns :D<

True. Makes you wish for the 2nd Civil War to show up, huh?

[ThePythonicCow]

we still have our guns

Tell that to the Branch Davidian.

[yankeedame]

When Britannia ruled the waves...