Fortis et Liber

Alberta has a publicly funded system of universal healthcare the incorporation of which into the United States would reignite Prairie Populism. How that fire would burn.

And that is just Alberta. At the very least, Donald Trump, whose base is horrified at the prospect of two United States Senators for the District of Columbia, wants two United States Senators from, of all places, Canada. If, beginning with Alberta, each of the 13 provinces and territories acceded individually to the Union, then the Senate thus constituted would be more than one sixth Canadian. Canadian. Canadian. 

That is before mentioning Greenland, which has had more abortions than live births every year since 2013. The Greenlandic Inuit have not always been treated well, including into recent history. But one of the many places in no position to comment on that is the United States. Unsurprisingly, then, they do not want to be American. Get over it.

As King George VI went to war with himself in 1947, so NATO went to war with itself in 1974, but that was over territory that was not and is not in NATO, and it did not involve the United States. NATO is now over. Having long ago ceased to serve any useful purpose that it might ever have had, it has now effectively ceased to exist. Among the many reasons why Britain needs a de Gaulle is to close the American military bases on our soil. First Harry Sacoolas, and now this.

I do not believe that the Home Secretary ought to have the power to revoke citizenship, but since it is there, then might it be preemptive? As the son of Mary MacLeod, Trump could ordinarily have a British passport. Might he be told in advance that none would ever be issued to him? That would make a point if not any difference, but the same Home Secretary's denial of visas to foreign speakers at the next Unite the Kingdom rally would certainly make both.

I know all the reasons why it would never and could never have happened, but imagine that a platform speaker at a televised rally during the Miners' Strike had called on the Soviet Union to invade the United Kingdom and overthrow its Government. Then imagine that that speaker had been a foreign national whose views had been well-known yet who had nevertheless been wafted into this country without let or hindrance. The last Unite the Kingdom featured repeated calls on Trump, including from guests, to effect regime change in Britain, and that was before he had done so in Venezuela.

By doing so, Trump showed that he was an entirely typical President of the United States. Some of us remember being called every name under The Sun when we opposed such interventions. In those days, the then Labour Government and its cheerleaders claimed that it was treasonable and, in what was to become a recurring theme, antisemitic to criticise the President of the United States. While Syria turns out as well as all the others and exactly as we had predicted from the first, again like all the others, the Daily Telegraph is still at it, but even that is about to be taken over by an interest that felt no such allegiance the the power that wanted to annex one of His Majesty's Realms while invading a Territory of His Majesty's cousin.

Britain's Greenland is Chagos, on which the Conservatives refused to table a fatal motion at Third Reading in the House of Lords at a time when a Shadow Foreign Minister was Andrew Rosindell, whose new party's only Peer did not even turn up. But what a day to be dredging up the discredited old allegations against Rosindell, when The World at One had on Peter Mandelson to order Middle Britain to get behind Keir Starmer's prostration to Trump, which will see Tony Blair, like Mark Carney, join Vladimir Putin and Aleksandr Lukashenko on Trump's Board of Peace, on the very day that we were expected to believe that Russia was targeting our local council offices, giving my best laugh since I was working in such a facility in late 2001 and an unexpected letter from the United States caused the whole place to be evacuated for fear that it might be a delivery of anthrax from Osama bin Laden.

If you think that Trump may have waived his billion dollar fee, then you need to try to join one of his golf clubs without paying. To him, there is no difference. And one way or another, who will be paying for Blair's seat at the table? Who do you think? Will Rosindell be raising this in Parliament? Will Robert Jenrick, with his American spellings in the document that proclaimed him "the new sheriff in town"? 

Then again, they have enough to do already. The defection of Councillor Kathy Gibbon from Reform UK to the Conservatives has given the latter overall control of Buckinghamshire County Council, while Councillor Paul Bean of Reform's flagship Durham County Council has become the latest defector to Advance UK, the accession to which of Rupert Lowe would change the game completely on the Right. Meanwhile, the story of Rosindell's impending defection was broken on Twitter by Charlie Simpson, who at 15 would be banned from social media by Kemi Badenoch, and probably by Starmer. Think on.