You're kinda forgetting that Britain sort of evolved out of the American Revolution. If Britain won, then the world would be a much shittier place for it. Modern Britain isn't the Britain you thinking off when pertaining to the American Revolution. I really don't want to live under a monarchy. What you want is a modernized British government. That said, I always liked our much simpler version of the english language. It's just straight to the point.

Well it never hurt Canada to stay in tandem with Britain.

In fact i am sure they are doing pretty well for themselves.

I stand corrected.  I just assumed England had proportional representation... 

"The British schoolmaster Thomas Wright Hill is credited as inventor of the single transferable vote, the use of which he described in 1821 for application in elections at his school. The method, which guarantees proportional representation, was introduced in 1840 by his son Rowland Hill into the public election for the Adelaide City Council. Unlike several later systems, this did not allow for party-list proportional representation.

Single Transferable Vote was first used in Denmark in 1857, making STV the oldest PR system, but the system used there never really spread. STV was re-invented (apparently independently) in the UK, but the British parliament rejected it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

I suppose I am just another dumb American thinking they somehow knew something about the outside world.

Of course England is going to have less violence, it's a much smaller nation. Also, someone forgot about those british riots, and how there's groups of people over there who want gun laws similar to the US.

Not only that, US had slaves, and lots of them. All those people working for nothing. Their efforts still had massive value that paid off...

Besides... The US, has much bigger problems, and unless there's lots of people willing to do work for free, they wont be solved. Oh well. I'm not able to talk about it, though.

Meh.. if England was still colonizing then it would be as bad, if not worse, than the US.

I would love to be a citizen of the USA. The grass really isn't greener here...

Americans wanted independence, they can keep it. But it has been a good year for us Brits. We have the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee, for one. And a lot of things (Murdoch's Media, banking, expenses) are getting cleaned up. And of course England has the heritage. So things are looking up!

Though they really should be part of the Commonwealth. I don't see why they aren't. And heck, Cameron and Obama are on such good terms they're effectively one of the same anyway.

i have to agree with the language. i pretty much prefer to listen to someone from england. sounds 10x better and is 10x easier to understand. american english was very hard to understand for me the first times i heard it. sounds like a mumbling person from england and mumbling persons aren't as easy to understand as not mumbling persons^^

I sure want to be part of England so I can do this after a sporting event. Really, it makes total sense. Hopefully I'll have a business they can destroy too!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qXGWDFIutI