MEET THE NEW BRIT, SAME AS THE OLD BRIT...

We are most fortunate to have another Paltalk star join the motley ranks of the HMS Rattler. Everyone, please welcome, NotNeurastheniac!

From across the Pond....Later this year we will finally pay off the loan of $21 billion America advanced us in 1941 so that we could continue to fight the Germans. The last tranche will be £45 m. Yes, America enabled us to survive as a nation....but one would ask, would we have made America pay through the nose as they did us? High interest, relinquish rights to radar, antibiotics, jet planes and nuclear research? Many of the ships America sold us were only fit for the scrap heap. Franklin had no love for our British Empire, indeed he wanted us to sign over the West Indies....and whilst hard bargaining on the part of America would be in its national interest, now that 'we' are in Iraq, one questions, having proven our mettle as being "with" America, rather than "against" her...why we are not now asserting OUR national interests and getting a slice of the pie as regards contracts to rebuild Iraq....doesn't America owe us now?

NotNeurastheniac