The United Kingdom of Great Britain and France?

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It has just been revealled that in 1956 the then French prime minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between France and the UK, effectively making the two historically bitter enemies one country. When i first heard of this i thought it was a joke, it is no secret that we brits are not the greatest admirers of the French (the name "cheese eating surrender monkeys" isn't supposed to be affectionate) and the French are well known to dislike the brits, thats why they stopped us joining the EU for about 15 years. Of course it would never have really happened, the uproar this would have caused from both sides of the channel would have quashed it in minutes but lets just imagine it did, would it not surely be the greatest nation on earth. You take the french cooking, British engineering, french creativity, british inventiveness, french film, british music. The possibilities are endless, a combined population of 130million people would make it pretty competitive with the US, we could have ruled the world again! But still the fact remains that we are far too different, 500 years of fighting shows that. If your fair nation wherever you may be were to create a union with another country which country would you choose? and why?