The past is what makes you/us today.
Having the term Great will remind people of the past good and bad.
Without knowing the past you have no future (cannot remember the bad deeds done etc) and will do it again.
Well, it seems we’re going down some past historic rhetoric.. Great France? Great Portugal? Great Spain? Great Germany? All have islands (not Germany) under their “colonial” amass, some taken by force, some given up, some still aligned to their “greater” governmental controls..
S’pose we ought to just bring out that good ol’ Pink Map of the Planet and be done with it all and just shout louder in English and finger wag at everyone else.
Nope.
Lets not.
I do wonder what the royal family think of the current state of the nation, obviously her Maj won’t address the nation and say something like “You lot, go get a wash, be nice, stop fighting and lets kick out the current crop of inbreds in parliament and create a republic” which is what I do think she’d rather like ATM.
(apart from Andrew, he can **** off)