To think eventually, UK could become a part of the USA?

Mad post of the day.

The U.K. and rest of NATO need US funding more than the reverse

Sadly you are right there at this current moment in time. I was never a fan of globalisation and I was hoping some of the murmured disturbances about the extent of European supply chains after Covid and with the Ukraine war would stay and become something to action.

But not only is the era of rule by law over: the era of reason never had a long tradition and it’s gone again already. The human race is beyond hope.

I think, short of us being invaded, we're unlikely to end up as part of the USA. We couldn't even stick being part of the EU! Most British people think the USA is a bit of a mess at best, and a wildly unstable country at worse.

Personally, I'm not even sure the USA will still exist in its current form in 20 years, think various states will end up seceding, hopefully without civil war first. Either way, they're certainly going to be unlikely to have new "states" like the UK joining. The republicans in particular aren't going to want somewhere as left leaning as the UK mucking up their chances of being reelected,

Reform are seriously putting their campaign funds to good use through continued spamming of forums such as this one.

Its funny how desperate ‘patriots’ are to sell out this country the American tech oligarchs and weird Christian fundamentalists.

Good grief, NO.

They wouldn’t be a part of you, you would be a part of them.

I detest Keir Starmer and his second rate cabinet. They fill me with gloom and dread. But no I don’t want to be part of the USA.

Fuck. THAT!!!

No way would we roll over for that brainless orange baboon, or ANY president, for that matter.

We are Europeans.

End of.

Putin would get you first. Do you really think Trump cares if Putin has you? No, he doesn't. Maybe you need to provide for your own defense so nobody takes you over? Just a crazy thought.

We can't be part of Europe because of all the foreign leaders who might do something nasty.

But we absoluetely should join the USA, full of its guns and drugs.

Yeah, can't see it going down too well as an idea here somehow.

I certainly hope so. I didn't say Trump would actually end up doing this, I fervently hope it is all just empty rhetoric, just that he is serious at the moment about it. He is often serious about things but just doesn't think them through and then can't actually deliver (Border walls anyone?).

The week article - How much wall did Trump build?
At a May 2023 CNN town hall, former President Donald Trump claimed that his administration finished building a wall along the 1,954-mile border separating the U.S. and Mexico. But according to a Customs and Border Protection report written two days after Trump left office in 2021, about 458 miles of the wall were completed under his administration, with another 280 miles identified for construction but never finished. Of those 458 miles, just 52 covered sections of the border that hadn't previously had a barrier. The other 406 replaced shorter barriers that already existed with a fence made of reinforced hollow steel bollards ranging from 18 to 33 feet high.

He will however, somehow make it look like his idea if he can't do it in the end. How people can think Trump did what he promised in his first term is beyond me!.

I don't even agree with his policies and am happy that he couldn't deliver on a lot of it, but honestly people really think he is going to be more effective ? I wish it was all just bluster and hot air but although a lot is, some of it quite dangerous

Reminds me of the scarecrow in the wizard of Oz ...if only I had a brain.

I think there will be many British people that don't know who he is.

Enjoy your own conflicts then, and don’t keep expecting NATO - the U.K. particularly - to support your overseas adventures. We have no geographical need to worry about China and I would like to see better relations between us and the Earth’s oldest civilisation. We could do with weakening their ties to Russia at least.

The U.K. and rest of NATO need US funding more than the reverse

It would be much better for this country than letting the shower of shit establishment that we have here run the country. Hurtling faster towards the inevitable 3rd world status.

Over my dead body. I want nothing to do with the USA, if I can avoid it.

Or a tunnel 😂

Don't be absurd.

What a ridiculous thread 🙄

🤣🤣🤣 No.

“on top of this, there is a hell of a lot of UK support for Trump, I don’t even think the British would object to a takeover on the whole”

Are you British/ living in the UK? I don’t know a single person here who doesn’t think Trump is ridiculous and makes a mockery of politics. Not that ‘politics’ needs any help with that. But Trump is a laughing stock here.

They wouldn't bother because they already own Britain:

Within the last month in Britain, there have been several high-profile company takeovers by US businesses. Perhaps the most striking was the purchase of the iconic BT Tower in London by a US hotel chain which will convert the building into a luxury hotel. Nine days later it was announced that GXO of Connecticut will buy Wincanton, the haulier established in 1925 and employing 20,000 staff....

These takeovers may sound exceptional, but they actually fit neatly into the pattern of the last decade during which great chunks of the British economy have been transferred to new American owners. Just a few of the more notable recent US purchases were G4S, Sky, Meggitt, Ultra and Hotel Chocolat. This wave of takeovers has also led to the rapid decline of the UK’s London Stock Exchange, whose biggest 350 companies are now, in total, worth less than Microsoft...

Steadily the US has taken ownership of thousands of businesses and brands in Britain, including high street shops and manufacturers. If the pace of takeovers ever slackens it is probably because there is little left to acquire and most of the remaining companies are in unprofitable sectors. Taken together, the US multinationals now have annual UK sales of over $700bn, equivalent on a per-household basis to an average of about £20,000 for each UK family.

.Americans are buying up Britain from right under our noses. Here's why

American bidders bought businesses worth $15.2 billion from British public markets in 2024

You can't be serious.

It's funny, because I know infinitely more Americans who would like to move pretty much anywhere that Trump isn't, than people in the UK who think he's anything but a dangerous prat.

😂yes, actually, good point!