Motto for the UK?

[LazyGun]

BBC1 6pm news tonight featured an article about a suitable motto for the UK, a short, pithy statement summing up the character of the UK,suitable for printing on passports, currency etc.
Examples given were of the USA (In God We Trust), France (Liberty,Equality, Brotherhood) and Belgium (Strength through Unity) .
As the contributors here cover such a broad cross section of the political and social spectrum, I thought it might be interesting to hear any suggestions you might be able to come up with :)

[THECORBYLOON]

We're not like the rest of the county, we have a different heritage and it's not an English one.

[monkeyeyes]

But surely that is why the motto is for the 'United Kingdom'.......to illustrate our similarities rather than to highlight our differences..........?

.........we rarely get to hear any more than the first verse and chorus of 'God Save the Queen', in any case. And it has been played at such a dirge-like pace that it sounds dreary rather than rousing.

[Panic Button]

Come on, sing with me:


'Land of Health and Safety ....'

[Neilzulu1]

Surely you mean this, and yes it does make me feel proud!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vTHYgeETrkPs

Land of Hope and Glory - Last Night of the Proms 06

[carsonking]

Panicbutton won

[Booldawg]

TCL, I refer to the large amounts of non-English people who are happy to live here for work and slate the country and its people, bang on about how great their country is without actually ever returning home. Corby is an ideal example of the enmasse economic migration of people from Scotland who came down for work in the steel industry. I can see why people dont get along with England or the English but lets not hear about it.

[indianna73]

to the tune of land of hope and glory.......

land of drunken yobs
drugs and guns and knives
fighting and killing our brothers
and taking one anothers lives

[Dassie]

" Disunited we stand. In MRSA we trust "

[ash24]

Scotland already has a motto,
Nemo me impune lacessit,
in English: No one provokes me with impunity.
Perhaps that would serve as the UK's motto?

Seeing as there are so many Scots down here ... sticking their noses into English affairs, that would be quite apt

[THECORBYLOON]

"TCL, I refer to the large amounts of non-English people who are happy to live here for work and slate the country and its people",

There are many English folk who slate their own country and in fact in the same post you wrote, " I can see why people dont get along with England or the English but lets not hear about it.�

"bang on about how great their country is without actually ever returning home"

There is regular movement between the countries

Corby is an ideal example of the enmasse economic migration of people from Scotland who came down for work in the steel industry.

Where was the steel industry in Corby prior to Lloyds and Stewart & Lloyds coming here? Och that�s right, there wasn�t one.

[Booldawg]

you dont get a dog and bark yourself.....

[tubeway]

Still cleverer than Americans

[THECORBYLOON]

Eh?

[oxfordrocks]

With regard to some of the above answers.
"Yes! We will rob your countries but don't come and bother us after we've left"

England --Racist capital of Europe