Queen Offers to Restore British Rule Over United States

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Courtesy of The New Yorker..

In an unexpected televised address on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore British rule over the United States of America.

Addressing the American people from her office in Buckingham Palace, the Queen said that she was making the offer “in recognition of the desperate situation you now find yourselves in.”

“This two-hundred-and-forty-year experiment in self-rule began with the best of intentions, but I think we can all agree that it didn’t end well,” she said.

The Queen urged Americans to write in her name on Election Day, after which the transition to British rule could begin “with a minimum of bother.”

Just a bit of British humor to lighten your day..
 
But after Brexit, why bother? They really devalued the Ruled-By-UK brand with that maneuver. No, at this point it would be better for USA government to submit to rule from Mexico City. Taxes will drop, prices will drop, regulations will diminish, the undocumented will no longer be illegals, and a wall built along the southern border will be much shorter and cheaper. Think about it.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and all the fun drugs will get cheaper. Suppliers' overhead will drop dramatically. Setup the pipeline direct from Sinaloa to Chicago.
 
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The Brits ceased to be relevant August 1914. Today its one of the impoverished 3rd World African colonies dominated by Islam.
 
The Brits ceased to be relevant August 1914. Today its one of the impoverished 3rd World African colonies dominated by Islam.

Isn't it interesting just 100 years later the USA begins it's trip down the same pathway to irrelevance.
 
I still say half the US's problems would go away if they used a Westminster Parliamentary system of government. They could still elect their own monarch. They almost made Washington a king. It would get rid of the gridlock which keeps various administrations from getting shit done. Give the power back to the people and out of the hands of the Electoral College.

Just read an article which says the US government makes 7000 political appointments. The UK parliament about 150.

In a Westminster system elections are about 4 weeks long. The US goes through two years starting with candidacy primaries.
 
I still say half the US's problems would go away if they used a Westminster Parliamentary system of government. They could still elect their own monarch. They almost made Washington a king. It would get rid of the gridlock which keeps various administrations from getting shit done. Give the power back to the people and out of the hands of the Electoral College.

Just read an article which says the US government makes 7000 political appointments. The UK parliament about 150.

In a Westminster system elections are about 4 weeks long. The US goes through two years starting with candidacy primaries.

^^^^Stupid Canadian Shit

The Electoral College exists to frustrate fraud. Our Founders knew the Clintons would come some day.
 
I was kinda playing off posts #2 & 3...


;) ;)


Maybe Trump will put the bust back into the White House. :D :D :D
 
This is so funny.
Limeys are not able to do it.

We wouldn't want the political mess the US now has.

Some of us would have been very pleased to give the 13 colonies independence before 1776 and let you sort yourselves out.
 
We wouldn't want the political mess the US now has.

Some of us would have been very pleased to give the 13 colonies independence before 1776 and let you sort yourselves out.

It's a shame the British government of the day had not been enlightened enough to give the colonies representation. After all the Yanks were only demanding their rights as Englishmen.

Losing the war can almost certainly be laid at the door of Lord Germain, Secretary of State for North America. The fool had already been cashiered from the army for cowardice and refusing to obey orders. His failure to coordinate the Saratoga campaign convinced France to ally with the rebels. And Yorktown was mostly a French victory.

Given proper representation who knows how the history of North America and the British Empire may have unfolded. North America could have become truly united.

And the Yanks would now have a responsible government.

You won't find any statues to Lord Germain in England. Maybe the Yanks should erect one.
 
Given proper representation who knows how the history of North America and the British Empire may have unfolded. North America could have become truly united.
I've read several alternate histories based on that, complete with surviving French, Spanish, and Russian American empires.

With no US revolution as inspiration there was no French revolution, no Napoleon, no Louisiana Purchase. And no Mexican Revolution and dismemberment. And no Seward's Folly (Alaska Purchase). Probably some Indian confederations would flourish. No US Civil War; the 1833 British slavery ban defused that. No annexation of the Kingdom of Hawai'i or the Spanish Philippines. It's fun to consider.
 
Defeating the American rebels would have entailed a different history than if the rebel demands had been met. England's repression of the Scots after '45 was brutal. A lot of Yanks would have been hanged. The Louisiana Purchase would have stayed wild and not been settled perhaps allowing natives in the west to establish sovereign nations. Australia would have gotten a big population boost from transported Yanks.

Nice to think of a peaceful settlement but a defeat for the rebels would have been very very bad for many Yanks. They would have suffered lots of confiscations and faced economic hardship if they escaped being hung or transported. Like the loyalists who had to flee to Upper Canada when the rebels won.

Through peaceful means probably the US would resemble Canada or Australia now in governance. Britain's abolishing of slavery, if that had occurred, would have meant no Civil War. But with revenues from cotton, the abolishment of slavery may not have happened or come years later. Except for sugar plantations in the Caribbean, Britain was not deriving much income from slave labour. The southern US colonies could have tipped that.

And supposed the Constitution had never been ratified and each colony became a sovereign state.

Lots of "What If' stories out there on alt-history.
 
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We'll be fighting ISIS, or the current iteration, in London within the next 5 years.
 
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