Just been reading some mad-cap anti-European fantasy wish-fulfilment detailing how Blighty should join the USA, with its population granting it not 1 but 10 states, one of which would be Lancashire. (Unfortunately, Yorkshire is also included).
Is it as mad an idea as it sounds? Would you like to see Nick Clegg as as senator? Could you cope with a plummy sounding President? Would we have to eat "corn dogs"? Would you have to introduce the Gravy Trade Description Act? Would CES implode? Would I be forced to wear a Stetson and say things like "yee har"?
The 51st to 60th States Of America
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Just who exactly is proposing this idea, and where is the nearest lunatic asylum to their current position?
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It was an old article by the totally sane Paul Johnson and some tongue in cheek commentary by David Aaronovitch. Hey, the Dominion Of Ireland would have a land border with the USA. I bet they'd build a bloody great fence
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Well, the next land west of here is America ...Clinton Huxley wrote:It was an old article by the totally sane Paul Johnson and some tongue in cheek commentary by David Aaronovitch. Hey, the Dominion Of Ireland would have a land border with the USA. I bet they'd build a bloody great fence
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
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Aye, can't keep the Irish out of New York. The Irish been coming here for years. Feel like they own the place. They got the airport, city hall, Dance hall, dance floor, they even got the police....klr wrote:Well, the next land west of here is America ...Clinton Huxley wrote:It was an old article by the totally sane Paul Johnson and some tongue in cheek commentary by David Aaronovitch. Hey, the Dominion Of Ireland would have a land border with the USA. I bet they'd build a bloody great fence
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Here? Are you in the Colonies?Clinton Huxley wrote:Aye, can't keep the Irish out of New York. The Irish been coming here for years. Feel like they own the place. They got the airport, city hall, Dance hall, dance floor, they even got the police....klr wrote:Well, the next land west of here is America ...Clinton Huxley wrote:It was an old article by the totally sane Paul Johnson and some tongue in cheek commentary by David Aaronovitch. Hey, the Dominion Of Ireland would have a land border with the USA. I bet they'd build a bloody great fence
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
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Hehe, spot the lyric?klr wrote:Here? Are you in the Colonies?Clinton Huxley wrote:Aye, can't keep the Irish out of New York. The Irish been coming here for years. Feel like they own the place. They got the airport, city hall, Dance hall, dance floor, they even got the police....klr wrote:Well, the next land west of here is America ...Clinton Huxley wrote:It was an old article by the totally sane Paul Johnson and some tongue in cheek commentary by David Aaronovitch. Hey, the Dominion Of Ireland would have a land border with the USA. I bet they'd build a bloody great fence
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I just want BC. Smuggling pot across international borders is risky.
Or so I'm told.
Or so I'm told.
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But you have already long been regarded as "East USA", by the rest of the EU. Surely you are aware of that 
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"I was born in East USA!" Go Springteen/Cheech clone song!MiM wrote:But you have already long been regarded as "East USA", by the rest of the EU. Surely you are aware of that
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EU or USA? I'd rather we federate together with the Aussies and Kiwis.
Heck I'd even accept rule from Canberra. OK so Canberra it might seem like the back-end-of-beyond to us, but let's face it, it probably seems like the back-end-of-beyond to most Australians as well.
Heck I'd even accept rule from Canberra. OK so Canberra it might seem like the back-end-of-beyond to us, but let's face it, it probably seems like the back-end-of-beyond to most Australians as well.
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political ... 2crma.htmlHorwood Beer-Master wrote:EU or USA? I'd rather we federate together with the Aussies and Kiwis.
Heck I'd even accept rule from Canberra. OK so Canberra it might seem like the back-end-of-beyond to us, but let's face it, it probably seems like the back-end-of-beyond to most Australians as well.
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You could have them now if you lived in a free society. /seethThinking Aloud wrote:Do we get guns?
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Exactly. Think of the difference our votes would make down-under.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political ... 2crma.htmlHorwood Beer-Master wrote:EU or USA? I'd rather we federate together with the Aussies and Kiwis.
Heck I'd even accept rule from Canberra. OK so Canberra it might seem like the back-end-of-beyond to us, but let's face it, it probably seems like the back-end-of-beyond to most Australians as well.
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