Frangleterre - The Franco-British Union

[Clinton Huxley]

I hadn't heard this before but apparently there was a French proposal, at the time of the Suez Contretemp, for a union of France and Britain. From Wiki:-

In September 1956, due to a common foe during the Suez Crisis, an Anglo-French Task Force was created. French Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between the United Kingdom and the French Union with Elizabeth II as head of state and a common citizenship. As an alternative, Mollet proposed that France join the Commonwealth. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden rejected both proposals and France went on to join the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community and strengthened the Franco-German cooperation.[3][4]

What a marginally different world we might be living in had this gone through....

[Thinking Aloud]

Can you imagine the vast separatist movements that would have begun on both sides of la Manche in 1957?

[Clinton Huxley]

Can you imagine the vast separatist movements that would have begun on both sides of la Manche in 1957?

The Daily Mail would have gone into meltdown.

[klr]

Can you imagine the vast separatist movements that would have begun on both sides of la Manche in 1957?

The Daily Mail would have gone into meltdown.

Le Courrier Quotidien, according to google translate.

[Svartalf]

I hadn't heard this before but apparently there was a French proposal, at the time of the Suez Contretemp, for a union of France and Britain. From Wiki:-

In September 1956, due to a common foe during the Suez Crisis, an Anglo-French Task Force was created. French Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between the United Kingdom and the French Union with Elizabeth II as head of state and a common citizenship. As an alternative, Mollet proposed that France join the Commonwealth. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden rejected both proposals and France went on to join the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community and strengthened the Franco-German cooperation.[3][4]

What a marginally different world we might be living in had this gone through....

I never liked mollet, but us joining the Commonwealth? a crime against Nature, I say so verily.

[Clinton Huxley]

I can see France as a Dominion, with a Governor General. Quite fancy that gig myself, actually.

[Svartalf]

You govern France from Paris, at worst from Vichy, not from the Dordogne...

[mistermack]

Our snails would be extinct. Good thing too.

And our frogs wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

[Mysturji]

I hadn't heard this before but apparently there was a French proposal, at the time of the Suez Contretemp, for a union of France and Britain. From Wiki:-

In September 1956, due to a common foe during the Suez Crisis, an Anglo-French Task Force was created. French Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between the United Kingdom and the French Union with Elizabeth II as head of state and a common citizenship. As an alternative, Mollet proposed that France join the Commonwealth. British Prime Minister Anthony Eden rejected both proposals and France went on to join the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community and strengthened the Franco-German cooperation.[3][4]

What a marginally different world we might be living in had this gone through....

Quelle the fuck is this merde?

[Clinton Huxley]

C'est la histoire alternate most terriblé

[Svartalf]

So alternative it's pure fiction... it never could have happened, Mollet would have been publicly guillotined and his agreements revolutioned away.

[Mysturji]

Just as well, really.
I mean apart from the obvious problems of French people having UK citizenship, can you imagine Brie from Kent, and Cabernet-Sauvignon from Buckinghamshire?
Urrgh!

[Svartalf]

Brits already grab the best of our Claret and Burgundy...

[laklak]

I can see a few advantages. One could get a decent white Bordeaux with one's pork pie at Greg's, for example and confit duck would be available along with the usual roasts at Sunday pub lunches. The London Pickle would be renamed the London Cornichon and a zipline run between it and the Eiffel Tower. British lorry drivers could block the streets whenever they fookin felt like it.

[Svartalf]

There isn't such thing as " decent white bordeaux"... there are the sweet wines that have their own denominations, and then there's the piss from entre deux mers that will never be anything but piss and ought to be replanted in red in the hope that something decent comes out.