If the U.K. and the U.S. became one country.....?

Question

What would you think about that? Would you want it to be called the United States or the United Kingdom? Do you think we will be more powerful or less powerful if we were to do it?

Answer 1

we would become a more powerful country. if it ever happens, we should be called the United States Kingdom of America.

Answer 2

More powerful. United States of the Kingdom.

Answer 3

I'll answer with anohter question: Did you know that Daphne DuMaurier wrote a book on this very topic? It's called RULE BRITANNIA, and was published in 1972. I found it pretty entertaining, but I am a big fan of her work.


Emma, who lives in Cornwall with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, wakes one morning to find that the world has apparently gone mad: no post, no telephone, no radio, a warship in the bay and American soldiers advancing across the field towards the house. The time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States.

Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership; but to some people it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

Original title: Rule Britannia
Original language: English
ISBN: 0380000628

Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Political

Answer 4

If the UK were to become a part of the US that would give the US a permanent place in Europe. It would also be part of the EU which would complicate matters as there is free movement of people throughout the EU. With this type of link the World would become much smaller and nearer to having a world government. Whether the other EU countries would agree is another matter as the US would dominate.

Answer 5

I think it's better to keep us separate. The British people have their way of doing things, and we have ours. I don't think either of us would be happy accommodating the other. I wouldn't be too keen on having royalty, even if they are purely ceremonial.

If we did happen to join together, against my wishes, we would be more powerful if the union was peaceful. We'd be able to pool more resources and would have more people to create new ideas. I don't think the union would be peaceful, however. In fact, I think we'd get weaker from constant infighting, if not an outright civil war.

100 years from now may be a different matter.

Answer 6

You are dreaming! A queen ? What happens with the revolutionary war this country fought so hard for? Britain and the United States dont have that much in common, except, language and the war machine, but if fight comes to fight ,they will slash each other throat.Believe it.

Answer 7

Didn't you learn in history class that we WERE one country at one time and we didn't like it and had a big war to break away from them? It was called the Revolutionary War? Declaration of Independence? Constitution? 1776? Anything ringing a bell? Why would we go through all that just to get back together with them? What sense would that make?

Answer 8

Maybe we can call it the United Euro-American Territories (UEAT). That way both countries get equal mention in the name.

It just seems to me like we would be more powerful if we merged with another country--with a bigger army and everything.

Answer 9

Hahahaha. They already were one country. The UK and the colonies. It didn't work out. There was a war.

And, as it would never happen, if it suddenly did, it would be far less powerful, as there would be no merging the cultures, and neither of our governments would be willing to give up complete power.

Answer 10

I think it's an awful idea.

For one thing, Americans will never adopt metric, which means the UK'd have to give it up. And there's more of us, so the UK'd have to give up dollars, too.

We could call it the United States of Coming About Full Circle.