Britain to drop Britannia

Ok, I'm not British but I think this sucks, the British Government has decided to remove the image of Britannia from its coins. I discovered this through historian Mary Beards blog who provides some interesting background information on Britannia herself. I would have thought after the debacle of renaming the Royal Mail to (the awful) 'Consignia' the idot's would have learned their lesson, apparently not however...