we have what is called welfare,...and medicare, and our country thinks your country is shit...honeslty in every american movie where there is a butler he is english.....

ive never heard of richard branson...nor does anyone around me wear that shit, your good at soccer and drinking tea stick to that russia and canada got hockey on lock, austraila has rugby on lock...and hmmm england effects european union trade obivously but whats that go to do with the usa, and by the sounds of it the united states is more self sufficient that the UK with the exception of oil.

and when you think of sports how many uk ppl come to mind...
baseball-babe ruth
basketball-wilt chamberlan
boxing-muhamid ali
hockey-wayne gretsky (canada)
football-joe namath
soccer-pele (brazil)

we have better movies too...and how many mcdonalds do you have where you live? i bet atleast one...see american culture is more influential over there than your culture is over here.