Posted on 06/01/2012 7:04:45 PM PDT by Perdogg
The tower housing Big Ben will be renamed in honour of the Queen under plans supported by the majority of MPs. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband are among senior figures from all parties who have backed the proposal to call it the Elizabeth Tower. A total of 331 MPs have now signed up to the campaign.
It mirrors a tribute bestowed on Queen Victoria,
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Big Ben is the name for the bell. they can still name the Tower Elizabeth and the bell Big Ben
Really...I mean REALLY...who the f*** cares???!!!
The English do. They kinda like her. Her son and current daughter-in-law, not so much.
you must, you are here. Unless you came to jeer.
I came to jeer.
What are we jeering?
British history is a strange and convoluted story. When you add the rest of the English speaking peoples you get the greatest engine of prosperity and freedom in the history of the world. Elizabeth is a fine jewel in that complex crown. Only a few missteps in over fifty years.
They will end up calling Big Liz?
As one of the very last of the great world leaders, an exemplar of class in a crass time, the Queen deserves all the honors bestowed on her in her Jubilee year. God save her.
I do. I like Elizabeth myself.
So why are you here?
Agreed.
Fortunately for Royal Family, no one ever discerned from Elizabeth’s high cheekbones that she’s really 1/32 Irish.
Yeah, you're right. I mean, other than that single Muslim-protected communism misstep, they're fine. Like thousands of parts put together by hundreds of suppliers to make a Rolls Royce, driven by a maniac over a cliff at full speed. Except for that last step, the whole thing was a masterpiece.
I care. The tower already has a name — St Stephen’s, named for the first Christian martyr. In these times hell bent on de-Christianizing Britain, is it too much to ask that the Defender of the Faith resist this assault on the Christian character of her country, even if disguised as a tribute in her honor?
No: No: No!
Never, Ever name a perpetual structure after a living person!
(That being said, way too many structures are named after
bozos in Congress that greased the skids, or who needed to be remembered by their subjects.
Bad Karma to assume that you are the greatest!!!!
In a Republic, yes. We have way too many things named after politicians and others who don’t deserve it.
But, one of the useful functions of a Constitutional Monarchy is that you can name things after the Royal Family, not politicians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Queen_Victoria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_for_Queen_Elizabeth_II
Elizabeth is a fine dame, for a Cherokee.
LOL
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