New States For The U.S.A. (A challenge)

Don't know who they are. Remember, you're talking to a Yank.

Tony Blair was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2006 and was involved in what was called "New Labour." It was pretty similar to the sort of politics pursued by Bill Clinton-moving from the left towards the center to deal with the fallout from the shift to the right undertaken in the 1980's. I think he'd fit in well because he was in many respects a Clintonite Democrat in Britain-only difference is in Britain that sort of viewpoint is regarded as further to the right than in the US.

Boris Johnson was mayor of London as a member of the Conservative Party. He was a key campaigner for Brexit. I think he could fit in with the center-right elements of the GOP rather well-he's seen as a bit further to the right than the mainstream Conservative Party, but since the center in America is a bit more to the right, he'd be a lot more mainstream over here.
 
Oh, one more item: the Irish.

If Ireland becomes a U.S. state, then the Irish cease to be Irish and would be considered Americans. The feeling I get is that, after centuries of fighting British rule, they wouldn't be pleased to have American masters. Right?

Not quite. We weren't the ones pulling food out of the mouths of starving kids in the Potato Famine, or gutting Catholics for decades.

If anything, to have a unified Ireland, even as a state, might please some die hard Irish Nationalists.

Plus, as much as they rag on American "Plastic Paddies" there is a long history of support and affection on both sides of the pond.
 
... Alberta, Manitoba , Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the North-West Territories ... Having had enough of eastern elite-ism, economic domination, fiscal debauchery and political oppression, west-central Canada bugs out ... and good old Uncle Sam gathers us in!
 
The idea of Churchill as a dictator who declares war on the United States is absurd without a POD that includes vast changes in all the European countries as well as the U.S. beginning in the early 19th century and a Churchill whose entire life from birth on was very different from that of the historical Churchill.
 

GarethC

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... Alberta, Manitoba , Saskatchewan, the Yukon and the North-West Territories ... Having had enough of eastern elite-ism, economic domination, fiscal debauchery and political oppression, west-central Canada bugs out ... and good old Uncle Sam gathers us in!
IIRC, Manitoba's oil revenues make for a combination of low income taxes and excellent state-run education.

I would offer that joining the US will swiftly result in the abolition of the first, the defunding of the last, and while the middle one won't change, the increased cost of healthcare will feel like it.
 
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