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Debate:Has Britain become the 51st State of the US? (view source)
Revision as of 17:06, June 22, 2007
, 17:06, June 22, 2007debate comment
Roo, old bean, I'm a Brit and we don't all talk like that, don't ye know? EU, NAU, and whatever else means very little in the context of this discussion. What matters is that I can drink Coca-Cola, drive my Ford, eat some vague plasticky rubbish in McDonalds, pop into Starbucks, go home and watch CSI followed by Friends followed by whatever other tripe gets served up... The French call it ''Coco-Colonisation''. --[[User:Beanbag|Beanbag]] 18:58, 15 June 2007 (EDT)
Roo, old bean, I'm a Brit and we don't all talk like that, don't ye know? EU, NAU, and whatever else means very little in the context of this discussion. What matters is that I can drink Coca-Cola, drive my Ford, eat some vague plasticky rubbish in McDonalds, pop into Starbucks, go home and watch CSI followed by Friends followed by whatever other tripe gets served up... The French call it ''Coco-Colonisation''. --[[User:Beanbag|Beanbag]] 18:58, 15 June 2007 (EDT)
==A British point of view==
Politically, successive British governments have found it hard to strike a balance between our "special relationship" with the US (as [[Winston Churchill]] termed it) and our allegiance to the [[European Union]]. Personally, as a British patriot I don't like to see our sovereignty compromised by either institution - but as a realist I recognise that we can't stand completely alone in the modern world, and that we need economic and political ties to other nations. However, I don't think this debate is asking the right question - we're in less danger of becoming a 51st US state than of becoming part of a monolithic United States of Europe. I don't want to be a scaremonger - the EU isn't an evil institution, and it has a valuable purpose in terms of our economic links to our neighbours - but we have to guard our national independence against encroachment. [[User:Palace1|Palace1]] 13:06, 22 June 2007 (EDT)