Who took the GREAT away from Britain?

Answer 1

Left-wing, hand-wringing, bed-wetting liberals and the self-righteous twunts that pander to their PC policies, that's who.

Answer 2

The first World War killed the British economy, while the USA shivered scared across the Atlantic. All the real men died in that war. British manhood never recovered.

Then the National Government led by the Tory reactionary Baldwin prevented its recovery.

In WWII the USA performed the same cowardly trick coming in late and they removed Sterling as the currency of Trade.


ORIGINS
Wikipedia "Politically, "Great Britain" describes the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales. It includes outlying islands such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides, and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, but does not include the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands."

Ireland might be called Lesser Britain being the smaller island.

Britain come from the Germanic Celtic tribe who the Island was sometimes named after. They occupied Britain around 1000 BC. The name Brigante is named after Brigid a goddess who I think was a fertility or moon goddess. The Irish have adopted her as a Saint.

Answer 3

"Great Britain may well be a translation of the French term Grande Bretagne, which is used in France to distinguish Britain from Brittany (in French: Bretagne), which had been settled in late Roman times by Romano-Celtic troops from Maximus' army and later by refugees from Roman Britain, who were then under attack by the Anglo-Saxons. Since the English court and aristocracy was largely French-speaking for about two centuries after the Norman Conquest of 1066, the French term may have naturally passed into English usage. The term "Bretayne the grete" was used by chroniclers as early as 1338[citation needed], but it was not used officially until James I proclaimed himself "King of Great Britain" on 20 October 1604 to avoid the more cumbersome title "King of England and Scotland". Sources such as the New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) define Great Britain as "England, Wales, and Scotland considered as a unit" and Britain as "an island that consists of England, Wales, and Scotland." Thus, Britain is the name of the island, while Great Britain is the name of the geopolitical unit. NOAD advises that while Britain "is broadly synonymous with Great Britain ... the longer form is usual for the political unit."

It is a mere geographical term. to distinguish the Island from Brittany .never anything to do with a national ego-trip!

Answer 4

Little Britain

Answer 5

The Great was squeezed out of Britain during the two hundred years war, otherwise known as the Thatcherite years in the wilderness of blighted waste, greed and self-interest.

Answer 6

The fall of colonialism. Britain ceased being "Great" following WWII when, as a result of both ligitimate and Soviet-inspired "nationalist" movements in British colonial territories and protectorates, Britain lost its ability to claim that "the sun always shines on the British empire." This statement was the basis for the "Great" in Great Britain.

Answer 7

No one. First, it's just a geographical term - Great Britain, the largest island in the British Isles.

And it's still a great place to live. Look at the rest of the world and tell me that Great Britain isn't one of the most prosperous, safest, best places to live. I love it!

So, you moaning minnies! Just be glad you live here and not some horrid place with poisonous spiders, where the inhabitants still point at planes.

Answer 8

Great Britain refers to the Greater Britain as in England, Scotland and Wales not Great as in Majestic....so it is still Great Britain as in Greater London, Greater Manchester etc.

Having said that it is still a Great Country.

Answer 9

No one. Britain is still great. Thats why every one wants to come and live and work here.

Answer 10

Politicians

Answer 11

Daily Mail readers who love to whinge about everything!