Chapter 2 looks at the Islands’ response to the new economic and political realities in Britain in the context of the breakup of Greater Britain. Here we see how, amid rising racial tensions in the UK, the lobby adopted the rhetorical mantle of ‘abandoned Britons’, similarly deployed in other corners of the British world in the wake of empire. Several developments during the 1970s elucidate the widening fissures and contradictions between the Islanders and Britain. It concludes by charting the rising tensions into the early 1980s, as the policies of Thatcher’s Conservative government sent alarming signals of apparent disinterest in the Islands. Stressing the growing influence of the Falklands lobby in thwarting the negotiation process, this chapter shows the power and resilience of the rhetoric of Greater Britain, which played a major role in transforming a minor squabble into an intractable dilemma in the Falklands.