51st State of the USA?

[mash]

After standing firmly behind the US again, this time on the Israel, Lebanon conflict against the views of the UN, Arab states and much of Europe has Tony Blair finally enrolled the UK as the 51st state of the USA?

[Dizzieblonde]

Wasn't there some proposition in the 1960s or so about making the UK the 51st state, but the then Prime Minister turned it down, or was it all a conspiracy theory?

[kempie]

The UK is near the bottom of the current pecking order for consideration as the 51st State.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_US_state

[Loosehead]

well I'd rather that than a slow death in the corrupt EU .

[brachiopod]

He's just continuing where a whole succession of Governments, both Labour and Tory, have left off.

Apart from Thatcher of course, who demonstrated her stiff resistance to the US, (and nearly ruined this "special relationship" once and for all), by allowing the US to base its tactical nuclear weapons ('Cruise Missiles') in Britain, and then having the gall to tell President Reagan that he could only go ahead and use British airbases to bomb Libya.

Oh, and in their joint desire to see the fall of that evil, Middle Eastern dictatorship, Iran, she was quite happy to allow the sale and supply of arms to Iran's then enemy, Iraq (whose President was calles Sid? Dan? Sam? oh,... something Hussein anyway) - even using Tax Payers' money to underwrite some of the deals, so that the British and US arms dealers.... sorry, logistics and equipment specialists, still got paid even if the Iraqis failed to pay up.

Blair enrolling us as the 51st state? Pah!! we always have been.

[maxximus]

good post brachiopod, well written and spot on. i've always viewed israel as the 51st state and britain as part of the anglo-american empire. and us canadians viewed no more than white mexicans get dragged along to bolster policy. cheers!

[JudgeJ]

Agree wiuth Loosehead. I just they'd make it official and terminate our membership as the 25th State of the EC.