The US-Canada Merger Plebiscite

[Neil]

Actually, I think it would probably result in a permanent Conservative majority in the House of Commons.  There's no way a unified Canada and US would use the ridiculous American system.

[11B4V]

Our way or the highway. Sorry.

[Syt]

What is the merger scenario? Canada joining the U.S. or the U.S. joining Canada? In the former case I don't see what's in it for Canadians. In the latter case I'm not sure all U.S. states are ready for the ascension.

[Neil]

The Americans are the ones desperate to unite with Canada.  They'll have to adopt proper systems.

[jimmy olsen]

Voted yes. Add in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland as well.

[Eddie Teach]

Tim is such a gringo.

[Valmy]

Voted yes. Add in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland as well.

The Brits just are not joiners.

[jimmy olsen]

Voted yes. Add in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland as well.

The Brits just are not joiners.

Rename it the British Empire or the Anglo-American Commonwealth or whatever if they need their egos soothed.

[Josquius]

Voted yes. Add in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland as well.

On what logic?
The US is far more culturally alien than the rest of northern Europe.

[Valmy]

Rename it the British Empire or the Anglo-American Commonwealth or whatever if they need their egos soothed.

Yeah the Irish will be delighted.

[jimmy olsen]

Voted yes. Add in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Ireland as well.

On what logic?
The US is far more culturally alien than the rest of northern Europe.

The cultural differences between Australia, Britain and America are very slight. The northeastern US probably has more in common with southern England than it does with the southern US.

That you've lived in a place as "alien" as Japan and can't recognize this is amazing.

Valmy - Irishmen who make trouble can be deported to such noted hellholes as Massachusetts, Alberta and Australia.

[Eddie Teach]

Valmy - Irishmen who make trouble can be deported to such noted hellholes as Massachusetts, Alberta and Australia.

Why not Baltimore?

[Josquius]

The cultural differences between Australia, Britain and America are very slight. The northeastern US probably has more in common with southern England than it does with the southern US.

That you've lived in a place as "alien" as Japan and can't recognize this is amazing.

That's the big reason I have come to realise this truth. Language and the obvious surface culture aspects that people think of when they think of different cultures, are very small parts of actual cultural differences.
London is a bit of an American colony in Europe, that much is true, but overall the UK has far, far more in common with the Netherlands for example than it does the US.
One thing that I and other Brits here in Japan have noticed is that Japan is not half as alien for us as it is for Americans (though it is still alien of course) and the things we have trouble with here tend to be very different to the things that bother Americans.

[Eddie Teach]

London has like a third of the country's population.

[Josquius]

London has like a third of the country's population.

That still leaves 2/3 who aren't there. And not everyone who is actually in London buys into the general image of the place (see labour and even respect actually winning seats there.).