No, because I'm a Little Englander. 

probably different for people who lived in it 

you saw a lot of stuff during the windrush scandal about how strong an affection some families had to an idealised image of the Queen and Britain 

I think these days there is a sort of core of farage types who want to lead a canzuk group, like the idea of the empire and would lose their shitt if you suggested for example including south africa or nigeria in that group 

Some sort of Canzuk arrangement for movement of people makes practical sense, doesn't it? Aus-NZ already have it. 

Assumes the other countries want it.  

3-ducks16 Aug 23 08:46

Some sort of Canzuk arrangement for movement of people makes practical sense, doesn't it? Aus-NZ already have it. 

_________________________________________________________

makes some sense for Auz Nz based on Geography

doesn't make so much sense with the UK and they have ruled it out, as I understand it, in part due to fears of brain drain

Why is geography important nowadays? People can fly. I'd have thought that culture etc was more of a unifying factor. 

I think I’ve naively underestimated quite how much it’s been weaponised by the right tbh. The reality is that if the country hadn’t needed cheap labour after the war, would governments have encouraged migration from the CW to fill those jobs? There’s no equivalent flow in the other direction now that for example India is a tech giant. 

I imagine flying 2 hours is still more tolerable than flying 20 hours

language makes for an ease of use, but that is more of a UK going outwards issue, given the poor language skills prevelant in the UK 

not sure UK "culture" is closer to Canadian and Australia than it is to belgian or dutch or french or swedish 

That’s the point. We have a massive shared history with Europe, artistic and intellectual, not so with those places we tried to export Christianity to. And certainly not with India and the West Indies.