Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 did a piece about Britannia being removed from 50 pence coins today. What is wrong with Britannia? 

Why oh why does this government insist on removing British national symbols from everything? Why are the new passports so bland? Why have the pound coins got bridges on them instead of leeks for Wales for example?  

I am definitely no raving nationalist! But we shouldn’t be ashamed of our heritage, Britain has a proud history of tolerance and freedom.  In these days of globalism we need strong symbols of British-ness. The Euro coins across Europe from Finland to Portugal, Malta to Luxembourg have proud symbols of their national heritage on the ‘head’ side.  

I say we keep Britannia, like France has Marian, Germany has the eagle and Ireland has the harp.   The problem is Mr. Brown the there will be a backlash to all this political correctness rubbish and it won’t be moderate liberal internationalists like me who will do it but ignorant right-wing nasty white supremacists