Before a number of Britons took to the streets protesting against asylum hotels, raising the flag, painting the red cross at roundabouts, online agitators in the UK looked to the US for a lead, longing for a similar Trumpian regime change.
There were calls for our American cousins to colonise us, free us, or at least support us in the battle royal between the Labour government and the people it was elected to represent.
The historic ‘special relationship’ took on a new form, one that is less an official solidarity between the nations and more a natural allegiance between the natives. Currently, a large contingent of Britons are continuing to take to the streets to bring about not so much a ‘revolution’ but what David Starkey recently referred to as a ‘restoration’. To paraphrase Alexander Pope: Hope springs internal. Of course if Britons have to fight this war alone they will, but assistance from America is welcome. Particularly if it comes sooner rather tha…