Quite frankly one of the great problems England in particular and Britain as a whole suffers from is that London is so much bigger than all of its rivals, plus the fact it is the financial as well as political capital of the country. (Personally I argue for moving the capital to somewhere else just to dilute some of London's influence)
A combination of the terrible new episodes (a few seconds of which was enough) plus listening to THOSE DAMN SONGS for several hours as a volunteer on the Mid Hants has been enough to put me off Thomas. The books are still charming in their own way.
Its interesting to see the politics of the ENA developing, especially in contrast to the relatively stable politics of even the antebellum in OTL. My personal prediction for the Great North American War at this point is broadly this;
UPSA and ENA vs. Carolina and New Spain - in this scenario, the Carolinians are basically doomed; they have less territory than the OTL Confederacy and their principal ally is going to have to divert troops to their southern flank or lose everything south of Panama. On the other hand I fully expect Thande to throw in a curve-ball at some point which will ruin this prediction (your very good at that
) Still, the odds are against Carolina in this timeline unless it is the ENA vs. everyone else in the hemisphere for the same reasons the CSA was on the back foot in the civil war. teg
