The Real Transatlantic Ties

"They don't have it America" is what they imagine to be the self-evidently decisive argument. Both the one in five or so Britons who would abolish the monarchy (a figure unchanged through all the 30 years since the Duke of Cambridge's parents were married), and the well below half that figure who are anything less than totally committed to the NHS. The NHS, which in any case they are now to have in America, with even the Republican field being led by a man on record as supporting the Canadian single payer system, and with the nomination fairly likely to be won in the end by the prophet and apostle of socialised medicine, who ran for the Senate from Ted Kennedy's left.

So, despite the outcome, here's to the North American country where they do have both, and which is therefore ignored by British media divided between pseudo-Tories who are overtly anti-NHS and more or less covertly anti-monarchist, and pseudo-Labourites who are overtly anti-monarchist and more or less covertly anti-NHS. They know that the new Canadian Government will dismantle neither the Crown in right of Canada (and, quite distinctly, in right of each of her provinces), nor the health system lauded by everyone from Donald Trump to Justin Bieber. No one who said that they wanted to do either of those things could be elected in Canada. And no one who had actually attempted to do either of them could be re-elected in Canada. Would that Britain were still so British.