[ WP ] England decidedly does n't like the way the United States of America is progressing and decides to regain control of the colonies by force .

`` The votes are coming in Mr. President,'' he said, `` and our exit polls indicate it's worse than we expected.'' 
 
 `` Worse than we hoped,'' the President sighed. `` But much as we feared. Their last set of advertisements showing unarmed British Bobbies did us a lot of harm. We just assumed it could just go on and on ignoring the people and going with the political sponsors.'' 
 
 `` But this is the end is n't it?'' asked an aide. `` The end of the United States?'' 
 
 `` It's looking that way,'' the President got up and walked to the dark windows of the Oval office and stared into the night. `` I just hate the fact that it's going to go down in history as happening in my term. It was the previous administrations that lied and lied to the people. They took their money and spent it on arms because arms manufacturing was politically expedient, spent it on grand schemes that were just there to spend money so people could make money. I saw the tide had turned. I was the one making the changes to fix it all.'' 
 
 `` It was n't your fault that the British stepped in,'' insisted the Aide. `` That was unwarranted interference in our internal affairs.'' 
 
 `` But it was handled so badly,'' the President shook his head and sat down. `` Every step of the way they out-smarted us by being amiable and cooperative. We tried to play to American values and they out valued us. They were just too reasonable. They did the American ideal on us and again and again what they said was what we we believed and we were n't delivering. We just did n't realise they were fighting a war using marketing we just thought it was ordinary politics. They attacked us on our home ground and they've won.'' 
 
 `` The last polls are closed except Hawaii and Alaska and they were predicting to be going against us,'' said the Aide. `` It's done. We just have to wait now.'' 
 
 The President sat back at his desk and took his head in his hands. `` So...'' he said. `` In a few hours we'll know if the American people have voted to repeal the Declaration of Independence.''
