Your country happily joined ours to invade Iraq, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian fatalities, but it&#x27;s &quot;Hollywood lobbying&quot; that&#x27;s the last straw for you?<p>Had the UK not signed on to the Bush administration&#x27;s war, 2003 might have gone differently; Blair&#x27;s alliance with Bush was a key &quot;legitimizing&quot; force.<p>My point, relevant to this thread, is that I don&#x27;t think the UK is somehow coerced by US market power. The UK sees its best interests as mostly aligned with those of the US, which is not surprising when you compare the structure of our respective economies (for instance: London is the other Wall Street).<p>There are countries in the world with a reasonable claim against market-driven hegemony. The United Kingdom isn&#x27;t one of them.