Sometimes real life is awesome.
"If you, my British friends, have to face a major crisis, could you imagine France simply sitting there, its arms crossed, saying that it's none of our business?"
Oh, real-life FrUK. <3
This is pretty much the exact conversation I had with a work colleague yesterday, one on which he agreed with me on all points: we're family. We bicker, and fight, and can't stand each other a lot of the time, but we're family
In all: in real terms, I am not only in agreement with this Anglo-French defence project, but have been suggesting it myself for the past couple of years. Influenced by my own approach to International Relations, I think that it's a great measure to take.