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  • Re: United states of England

    From MummyChunk@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 3 13:19:34 2025
    SolomonW wrote:
    About 1900, many people started to realise that the twentieth century was going to be dominated by powers that had the resources of continents such
    as the USA and what was frightening to Germany, Russia. One country that people realized might be able to get such resources was Britain and there
    was some discussion about it.

    However, for such an expanded Britain it was too late. Its white colonies
    had already moved away.

    Now what if Britain decided to integrate her white areas earlier say in
    1850.

    At that stage, both Canadians and Australians were willing to join up directly to Britain. Most considered themselves to be British. I suspect it would be done by states. Canada would give about nine states; Australia
    six, New Zealsnd one or two and South Africa would be a long-term problem with the blacks and Boers, but something could be done for the white
    English. Scotland, Ireland and Wales would give about one each and so on. Each would send a representatives to London.

    Britain now goes into the twentieth century with raw resources greater than the US or Russia and a population about a third of the USA.

    Note if India joins in this United States, the figures change dramatically but I doubt the English would do this.



    Came back to this thread as it popped up in my feed after reading some current news.

    Interesting concepts mentioned. Thanks again for posting.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=403869031#403869031

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  • From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 21 17:42:45 2025
    On 2025-03-03 10:19, MummyChunk quoted:
    Now what if Britain decided to integrate her white areas earlier say in
    1850.

    ...

    Britain now goes into the twentieth century with raw resources greater than the US or Russia and a population about a third of the USA.

    The British Empire already had those resources. Its colonies were not
    holding back, at least not in times of crisis. For instance, British
    Columbia is proud of having the Empire's largest copper mine during
    World War 2.

    Change of governance is a different question. Our timeline has already
    seen how poorly a tight relation with Thirteen Colonies worked out. The
    UK was already working on a decentralized model.

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