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Originally Posted by Hom3r
IIRC Harold MacMillan was looking in to the UK beoming the 51st US state
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Wouldn't ever have worked, the US states are far too focussed on silly things like democracy, the will of their electorate and respecting individual privacy, liberty (in most things) and freedom for us to have blended in with our pervasive state interference and disrespect for individual freedom.
The special relationship has brought us little of value for a while so c'est la vie. We've no reason in the modern world to expect any special treatment from Barack Obama and have been sucking up to the US for quite long enough.