Why?

1. Because it would be funny

This is hopefully pretty self explanatory.

2. Because Brexit

The U.K. royally (pun intended) fucked themselves with Brexit.

It is now easier for businesses to trade goods between the U.K. and U.S. than the U.K. and France. A country which they can see on a clear day.

Their economy was already stagnant before Brexit and post-Brexit it’s in a downward spiral. They keep imposing austerity measures to try to get their budget under control which makes their economy shrink further leading to further austerity measures.

They are substantially poorer in real terms today than they were 20 years ago. The U.K. is the only developed country where this is the case.

What’s in it for the U.K.?

They become a part of the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth.

There are 69 million people in the U.K. As a state, population-wise? It would be the largest. In terms of GDP? It would be the poorest. Yes, even Mississippi has a higher per-capita GDP ($49K) than the U.K. ($46K).

As U.S. citizens, they could live, travel, work and go to school anywhere in the U.S. They already speak the language. And would receive absurd amounts of new investment and immigrants (mostly white women obsessed with Bridgerton).

What’s in it for the U.S.?

We get a ton of well-educated new workers, better access to the European market and to make King Charles crawl around on the floor and bark like a dog. Just one time though. We don’t need to be weird about it.

And finally, we can reform the heretics with the Webster dictionary. The only exception is aluminium which they can keep, as a treat.