I'm still trying to work out exactly what the UK gains from this "special relationship".
We paid back the loans in full in 2004, can we start acting like a sovereign nation when dealing with the US now?
We paid back the loans in full in 2004, can we start acting like a sovereign nation when dealing with the US now?
Churchill established it as a lynchpin of British foreign policy, as absolute and unquestionably valid as the old "maintain a balance of power in Europe", and it just seems to have stuck ever since, regardless of the costs.