I believe the US needs to rethink our alliance with the UK, for more reasons than this, but we need to be more practical about the real things that are beneficial beyond sentiment and the past triumphs we’ve shared. A lot of the problems, trend wise (pregnancy pacts among them) have been seeping into the US from the UK and I think we can do better on the world stage.
Remember the Cash For Clunkers program a couple of years back?
Did you know the UK had their own version called the Vehicle Scrappage scheme?
It started in May of 2009.
http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/business-sectors/automotive/vehicle-scrappage-scheme
The Cash For Clunkers (aka Car Allowance Rebate System) was started in July 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
It doesn’t take very long for the Feds to follow UK government trends. It took about six months from the time the British government made it a no-no to call Muzzie terrorist a terrorist to the time the US government adopted the same policy.
I even found that the use of hyphenated surnames goes back in Britain to about 1850. Social trends take a little longer to make it here to the US but it is happening.
Remember when Obama blamed ATM machines for his fail economic schemes? Guess where those were invented? That’s right! The UK!
Time to nuke the island from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.