The one thing the US cannot have is to have another power block, so the UK has been tasked with causing as much disturbance to the EU as possible in order to keep it from happening and to keep US dependencies firmly in place.

This is just the last installment. I come across fewer and fewer people who actually know how to read a map and plan a journey so there is a huge dependency there. It's almost like Russian gas.

There is good reason for the UK to stay buddies with the US, it has need of similar distractions (wars) for similar reasons (social systems falling apart like health, the blatant robbery of the pension funds, turning a budget surplus into a deficit - the hard realities of both Brown and Bush).

That being a proper part of the EU would yield many more benefits is something that needs to be kept away from the general population - that's why Ireland's success is a bit of a pain as it's on THIS side of the moat..