The Economist
We, therefore, the Representatives of Great-Britain, do solemnly Publish and Declare,That this Island is, and of Right ought to be, the fifty-first State of the United States of America and Britain.
A declaration, "only just tongue-in-cheek,” by the British weekly, the "Economist,” marked the United Stales bicentenary by suggesting that Britain should be the fifty-first state of the United States of America and Britain. The journal suggested: “If Britain can’t beat them, why not join them?" Its cover article was a parody of the Declaration of Independence which, the “Economist" said, "disgruntled and rebellious Britons might like to sign.”
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Press, 22 July 1976, Page 8
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