The Futurist Manifesto has a federal British Empire, but I consider the date I used (beginning of the 1900s) as almost the last possible one.
There are various problems as discussed but one of the key ones not mentioned is that there wasn't a major leader advocating for it (I use Chamberlain) and there certainly wasn't support for it on the Liberal benches let alone limited support on the Tory side. If you move the party politics around in the late 19th century there is something of an opportunity.
Probably not a Britwank, but a Federal Empire in 1913 would include a citizen population of 65.9 million people with a 1990 dollar GDP of 304.2 billion. In addition the colonies (mostly India) would constitute a further GDP of 257 billion with 380.2 million people.
France: 39.8 million people/138.7 billion.
Germany: 67 million people/244.3 billion.
Austria-Hungary: 50.6 million people/100.5 billion.
So the new British Empire would be roughly comparable to Germany with a higher per capita GDP before colonies. You can see why Chamberlain wanted such a thing if he couldn't have a close Anglo-German Alliance.
There are various problems as discussed but one of the key ones not mentioned is that there wasn't a major leader advocating for it (I use Chamberlain) and there certainly wasn't support for it on the Liberal benches let alone limited support on the Tory side. If you move the party politics around in the late 19th century there is something of an opportunity.
Probably not a Britwank, but a Federal Empire in 1913 would include a citizen population of 65.9 million people with a 1990 dollar GDP of 304.2 billion. In addition the colonies (mostly India) would constitute a further GDP of 257 billion with 380.2 million people.
France: 39.8 million people/138.7 billion.
Germany: 67 million people/244.3 billion.
Austria-Hungary: 50.6 million people/100.5 billion.
So the new British Empire would be roughly comparable to Germany with a higher per capita GDP before colonies. You can see why Chamberlain wanted such a thing if he couldn't have a close Anglo-German Alliance.