I see that Britain is planning on joining The Space Race and we'll have good old British astronauts to take to the stars.
Doesn't look good for one of them "first contact" scenarios!
Remember that English bird off've Beadle's (no longer) About? They planted a blow up slanty eyed Grey in her back passage, and what does she do?
Offer it up a cup of tea!
Now, apart from being as thick as pigshit for being taken in by a blow up doll, what if our intergalactic cousins had an aversion to tea? The dozy doxi could have poisoned the interplanerary personage and started Interstallar War and have us all zapped by ray guns with Slim Whitman our only hope.
Besides - what if they'd been an ET equivalent of a club 18-30 holiday?
"Venusians! Vist Earth - the Ibiza of the Milky Way! Them english birds are well up for it!"
"Fancy a cup of tea love?"
"Sod that! Give us a lager and whip yer funbags out! Veeee- nurrrrrse! Veeee- nurrrrrse!"
Not to mention their mate Colin, who's come all the way to Earth to find a chemist where no-one knows him sp that he can buy a packet of condoms without his mum finding out.
Still, makes a change from "Kin i gets you a jug of moonshine, sonny, afore ye tek ma pa up inter gawds country?"
