Does anyone really care?
If it is changed to the 'Elizabeth Tower' Will that name be in use for any length of time - if at all?
Apparently one of the sister towers used to be the 'Kings Tower' and was changed to the 'Victoria Tower' - does anyone know that and does anyone use that name? Does anyone even realise there ARE towers there? With or without names! 
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Big Ben is officially the bell. So I think it'll be 'Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower' instead of 'Big Ben in the Big Ben Tower/or Clock Tower'
But as far as I've always understood, when folk speak of 'BIG BEN' the bell,clock and tower are being referenced all rolled into one, 
So as you say I don't really imagine anything much will change and people will still talk of 'Big Ben' meaning it all.
Something as iconic as Big Ben will not imo, withstand a name change 
if they're that bothered about giving her a monument how about they take their noses out of the trough and put their hand in the pocket and pay for something 
and not be able to charge it as expenses so we the public end up paying for it 
Big Ben is officially the bell. So I think it'll be 'Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower' instead of 'Big Ben in the Big Ben Tower/or Clock Tower'
But as far as I've always understood, when folk speak of 'BIG BEN' the bell,clock and tower are being referenced all rolled into one,
So as you say I don't really imagine anything much will change and people will still talk of 'Big Ben' meaning it all.
you're right about Big Ben only being the bell but to most here and overseas, they see it as the whole thing rolled into one
They could call it the Big Liz Tower.
It might catch on. 
Yo just want it to be eventually shortened to The B'Liz Tower, don't you?
Yo just want it to be eventually shortened to The B'Liz Tower, don't you?
Maybe?
I remember my mum took my brother and me to London when he was about 7 and I was 4 and mum said look there's Big Ben and he looked and saw a huge dog and for years thought Big Ben was a big dog 
I remember my mum took my brother and me to London when he was about 7 and I was 4 and mum said look there's Big Ben and he looked and saw a huge dog and for years thought Big Ben was a big dog
I remember my mum took my brother and me to London when he was about 7 and I was 4 and mum said look there's Big Ben and he looked and saw a huge dog and for years thought Big Ben was a big dog
That is brilliant, LOL 
Well, they love toadying for knighthoods. Which self serving pond scum's idea was that?
With Dave's habit of overcompensating, I'd bet he'd sooner suggest calling it Lenin Tower than actually own up to how much he's in uncle Rupert's pocket.
When Tony got the Olympics, he should have negotiated toadying to the establishment as an Olympic sport. We'd definitely be in line for a medal judging by our lickspittle obsequious MPs.
Even if they do change it people will sill call it Big Ben... that's like trying to rename the Eiffel tower
Or St James's Park 
To cheer everyone up in these doom and gloom austerity times, they could rename it Big Fun in honour of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman 80s boy band.
Big Fun, assuming they're still alive and not in jail, could retitle their hit Jacksons cover, "Blame it on the Boogie" to "Bong it on the Boogie", at the renaming ceremony.
PMSL!
Even if they do change it people will sill call it Big Ben... that's like trying to rename the Eiffel tower
Or St James's Park
Money talking in Premier League football! That's outrageous! That will never do! 
