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Apr 17, 2024 · Every British high street has obvious American outposts (KFC, McDonald’s) but the average shopper probably does not realise how many products that we might think of as belonging to British culture – Mars bars, Weetabix, Innocent smoothies, Andrex loo roll – are ultimately owned in dollars.
- Will Dunn
Apr 2, 2024 · Has Britain finally become America’s 51st state? Angus Hanton’s book Vassal State is a provocative and detailed study of how Britain’s economy fell victim to US power – and how to respond
Vassal State: How America Runs Britain by Angus Hanton review — the 51st state. Boots, Cadbury’s, Fairy Liquid, Weetabix …. Britain’s biggest brands have been bought up by US companies. This polemic argues we’ve become a colony.
Aug 20, 1998 · It is about how England, a quarter of a century hence, becomes the 51st of the United States. And Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales become the 52nd to 55th, respectively.
Growing poverty: if the UK were the 51st US State it would be the poorest one. Angus Hanton admits to being a business economist by both training and instinct, having started two businesses in his teens, well before studying economics at Oxford University.
Jan 1, 1998 · Peter Preston. Inspired by the patriotism of his dying father, Rupert Warner uses his position to lead England out of the EU, and almost accidentally into the United States. Even more accidentally, he finds himself running for the Vice-Presidency, and who knows where that might lead.
3.9 11 ratings. See all formats and editions. Prime Minister Rupert Warner has taken Great Britain out of Europe, spurred on by a sentimental death-bed conversation with his father, a veteran of the Falklands. The consequences are dire - until an unexpected offer comes from one of Britain's oldallies.
- Peter Preston
