Could the UK become a part of America?

It is what makes it a free country. The people can't have power as long as weapons are only in the hands of the government. You can't invade a country where in each neighborhood there are dozens of armed citizens who will gun down anyone who claims their land.

Britain already dances to AMericas tunes, proper little lapdog like, so in the Military sense it already is part fo America, America say jump, Britain says yes master how high?

That has to be the most moronic reasoning I've seen so far (I assume you are intoxicated ... America dances to British tunes as well. In fact, most of the West dances to music in the English language, that doesn't remotely make them lapdogs of the US/UK/Canada/Australia etc...

And that's without going into your belief that the military is connected to pop music...

I would rather die than see Britain fall into the hands of America. It's nothing personal against America, just to be conquered by our own colony is too much shame to bear.

Look at our distance to the US, then look at our distance from the rest of Europe, which do you think is more likely to have close relationships with?

The one where it takes no time to get to France compared to mainland US is a big difference, and *shock*, you can already see it in effect by being a member of the EU as *gasp*, you guessed it, we're a part of Europe (the continent).

Don't go and say about Australia and Canada, how even with their distance they were ruled by us as that was different, that was an empire, not one single country.

I know, a completely ridiculously hypothetical question. But if/when we have a referendum on the EU and if/when the nation voted to be out of the EU, do you think people would rather we became a part of America? In terms of distance away from America, we aren't so far away from mainland America as Hawaii is away from America.

I would rather die than see Britain fall into the hands of America. It's nothing personal against America, just to be conquered by our own colony is too much shame to bear.

I think you quoted the wrong person. I said I didn't want the UK to become part of the USA, as is the premise of this thread. I didn't express any comment on the likelihood of this happening, which is of course negligible. Although I think you'll find that the UK has a closer relationship with the US than with, for example, Norway, not including the economy, and Norway is about 100 miles from the UK. In fact the Shetland islands are closer to Bergen than Edinburgh, let alone England.



Actually I am about midway between North America and Mainland Europe seeing as I live on the west coast of Scotland.

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And we are in the EU now, but perhaps not for much longer. Since once we become independent we'll probably have to reapply.



Again, I think you quoted the wrong person. There is no chance whatsoever of the UK becoming part of the US, or I wouldn't have said I'd rather die than see it happen. I don't really want to die just yet :P

Look at our distance to the US, then look at our distance from the rest of Europe, which do you think is more likely to have close relationships with? The one where it takes no time to get to France compared to mainland US is a big difference, and *shock*, you can already see it in effect by being a member of the EU as *gasp*, you guessed it, we're a part of Europe (the continent).

Look at our distance to the US, then look at our distance from the rest of Europe, which do you think is more likely to have close relationships with? The one where it takes no time to get to France compared to mainland US is a big difference, and *shock*, you can already see it in effect by being a member of the EU as *gasp*, you guessed it, we're a part of Europe (the continent).

Don't go and say about Australia and Canada, how even with their distance they were ruled by us as that was different, that was an empire, not one single country.

This makes no sense at all. Geographical proximity is totally irrelevant at a time when you can circle the world in a day. In 1800 it took longer to get to Newcastle from London than it does to get to America now.

It makes perfect sense. Travel may not take very long any more, but it's still expensive - when a flight to New York costs ten times as much as a flight to Paris is it any surprise that most people have visited France far more often than they have America? And don't forget that not everything can go on a plane - freight containers need to be transported by ship, which increases the Atlantic crossing to days or weeks. That's why nearly all of our imported cars are built in Europe, even if the company itself is American or Japanese.

Because cars are a time sensitive product, or what? Britain is a net exporter of cars anyway.

Question of which foreign country we should allow ourselves to be annexed by - granting this isn't a false dilemma - is about which institutions we prefer. Where it is geographically is right at the bottom of the list of concerns.