The traditional method on which the British Empire was built was to stick a Union Flag (carefully the right way up) out of the window, if they put you in a cooking pot, then a large number of redcoat would follow some time later and make a new swathe of the world pink on the map. Seemed to work well, but failed a bit in the US for some reason, but I think that was because George III went a bit loopy. Perhaps we'll try again one day when Northern Rock is fixed. God knows we've got enough youf itching to stick it to somebody...usually us.