I WAS musing the other day on the fact that Britain's so-called 'special relationship' with its North American cousins has so far this decade cost Tony Blair the Prime Ministership, may have lost him the European Presidency job and now looks likely to tip Gordon Brown out of Number Ten, Downing Street.
It shouldn't be this tough being kissing cousins with the USA but it is. Left-wingers (goddammed Commies who believe in state-subsidised health care for all!) deride Little Britain (pop: 60million) as the '51st State' and that got me thinking...
We'd be a damned sight more influential if we were state number 51. We'd certainly be the most populous state (more Congressional districts than any of the current biggies), we'd have two mouthy Lefties (in American terms, at least) shouting for us in the Senate and we'd own a whole Eastern seaboard'sworth of electoral college votes.
Where are Tom Paine, Jefferson and Franklin when we need them to fight the blackguards who belittle us?
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