Britain: Five Words or Fewer

The Times recently asked people to come up with an idea for a motto of Britain using five words or less, along the lines of Gordon Brown recent ideas of Britishness. However, most of the suggestions have been somewhat less that serious.

Whilst some entries have been serious, such as, "Courage, reason, humanity, democracy, monarchy" and "I respect who you are", most were not so sensible. Below is a list of some of the ideas given by people who commented on The Times blog.

* "Dipso, Fatso, Bingo, Asbo, Tesco."

* "Stubborn to the point of greatness."

* "Promoting historical unity myths since 1066."

* "Britain is dead. Long live England."

* "Once mighty empire, slightly used."

* "Going down with Brown."

* "At least we're not American."

* "At least we're not France."

* "Yeah, but no, but yeah."

* "Let's discuss it down the pub."

* "Britain; Live wrong and prosper!"

* "Land of yobs and morons."

* "National mottos are for wimps."

Story from The Times