16 January 2007

Bienvenue vers le Royaume-Uni républicain de la France, la Grande-Bretagne et L'Irlande du Nord

Ok. This is just too weird to contemplate. In the year of my birth, 1956, France and the UK had serious discussions about merging with the Queen becoming the French head of state. There is no doubt that the world would be substantively different today but when I try and imagine how my head just hurts.

I don't think George Bush would have liked it though and if the new country hadn't gone along with the war in Iraq I am sure there would have a campaign to eliminate English and boost FreedomSpeak as the new official language (or perhaps Spanish!).

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