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After Brexit the UK will be free to make it’s own trade deals and establish it’s own new relationships. One new union which has been discussed is the CANZUK model, bringing together the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We discuss why these countries, if it will happen, if it would work and what it means for Brexit going forward.

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  1. @hawklord100

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    In this new world, new wealth comes from IP, to have these four nations able to easily collaborate with free movement of skills and people would turbo charge what are already innovative nations for the benefit of all, lets do this asap

  2. @jackson1342

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    What about Ireland 🇮🇪 we want to join

  3. @harlemshakeqcbrousseau6863

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Anyting that can make democracy and multiliberalisum the facto thing Too faced china

  4. @puppyisafanpiggyname5738

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    YeCANZUK lets get it done!

  5. @EliButCool

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I think adding the us to this agreement would make sense because of our shared history

  6. @kf9346

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I'm Canadian and this seems like desperate idea by the Brits who didn't really think Brexit through. It also makes me uncomfortable hat it only includes the 4 White majority nations without a rationale. So I'm against the idea and for Canada deepening ties with the EU.

    PS Where is the Australia in the CANZUK acronym?

  7. @ibrahimm2012

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As a Canadian I would move to Australia for winter month of Canada

  8. @simplesimon8255

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    This all sounds like a pipe dream. I think the UK should try to forge closer relations with its European neighbors instead of trying to reach out thousands of miles away. Whether the Brits like it or not, the UK is still very much a European country, so it must stick to its immediate neighbors instead of distant relatives.

  9. @thiscityisreallylookslikea8340

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    For the love of God northern Ireland don't leave UK let's make this happen

    If you leave then that means Scotland will probably leave UK regardless of whether this is beneficial

  10. @shonabatty9005

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I'm nz yep I'm all about it

  11. @Redtheemojicat

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As a British person I would be able to see my brother more easily if free travel were enabled in canzuk nations

  12. @greenlach7398

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I think it would be good
    It would help these 4 countries move towards carbon netrul reality

  13. @guyh9992

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    CANZUK is a pipedream.
    After Churchill's preference to defend India over Australia in 1942, Harold Wilson's withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968 and Ted Heath joining the EEC in the 1970s, no one in Australia believes that the UK would ever commit to our region over Europe.

  14. @dang4160

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Iam from the uk absolutely love this idea 💡makes more sense then the eu ever did .

  15. @gamingfastasfire5908

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Me in Australia

    Soviet union

  16. @oscarnavarro8019

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    CANZUK SHOULD HAVE A TRIAL.

  17. @spoonkus5893

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Skeptics always use distance as an arguing point against the Union, but they ignore two major factors

    1. How come all four countries used to have close ties before the uk entered the EU? The uk was Australia’s biggest trading partner before the uk left them, surely if they could be successful decades ago then they could absolutely make it work with today’s modern technology?

    2. Everyone does a massive amount of trade with China, especially a lot of African countries. If dozens of oversea states can have stable trading deals with one economic powerhouse, then four powerhouses can make it work despite geography

  18. @imperiana2543

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    The BIRITISH EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

  19. @ablanchard4949

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As a quebecois i think it would be very interesting to see CANZUK came to life

  20. @SuperTonyony

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    A more logical trade block: UK, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and the US.

  21. @paulmetcalfe4054

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    From the tone of this explanation I think I can safely say the speaker is not an advocate of CANZUK.
    He suggests that the survey was not a fair appraisal of how citizens in the 4 countries feel but judging from his comments section I think he has his answer albeit not the one he would have liked. He also suggests due to distance it probably would not work. I suggest he investigates these countries territories (Britain has many) as these could be used to help in the transfer of goods and services. He also hardly mentioned the huge benefit of sharing the same common language and never mentioned prior to the EU that it was very common to see New Zealand lamb in UK shops or British cars on Australian roads and much much more. This can be achieved if we have the will power of the people in power. It just seems to me currently very few people know about it. At least this video goes some way in changing that.

  22. @shannondrover5421

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Absolute garbage idea.
    Another attempt at UK colonialism.
    How do we get rid of this fantasy horse shit British Monarchy.
    An old woman, a god dam foreigner who is the head of state of a SOVEREIGN nation. Think about it. How utterly ridiculous and primitive. Embarrassing !
    Canada has to grow up and join the 21st century.
    It’s time to REPUBLIC !

  23. @tubbdoose

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I like the name because it makes Canada seem like the most important part of it XDDD

  24. @whaikuratuhaka7029

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    The white supremist imperialist colonialists Anglo Saxon racist Democracy system is in decline it is broken, human rights abusers, should face the iCC for crimes against humanity

  25. @morrisanderson818

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As a kiwi who was, deserted by the British empire to join the EU,i say, Bullock's to this,,stick it where the sun dont shine,,Great Brittain,,

  26. @ralphboyd6393

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    It's always been about this, GB wants her Empire back.

    Well we're entering into the Graphene Age which will usher in as profound a change as when humanity started it's Iron Age. Everything changes in the next twenty years and once again it'll be technology and science from the US that changes it.

  27. @petersinclair3997

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I just read the UK didn’t want Australia to be a party at Potsdam. Australia did want to be a party to the negotiations. Now, having second thoughts about helping the UK, after Brexit. As it happened, MacArthur appointed an Australian as second in charge, in his Japan command. The UK was only marginally committed against the Japanese compared to Australia and the US. Australia should prioritise the TPP (with the US returning) over the UK.

  28. @petersinclair3997

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    OK. But the TPP with the US would be better. Boris will want the Head Office in London, while all the economic activity will be in the Asia Pacific. The UK dropped the Commonwealth, then dropped the EU.

  29. @isaacnuketon

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Wouldn't this be this a new global superpower

  30. @sirbookworm

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As an Australian and anti-monarchist, I do think having trade and free movement would be good but not a political union.

  31. @derpypaws1250

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I would like if they added more countries to CANZUK, like India and South Africa

  32. @LittleBallOfPurr

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Shoulds turn the Falklands into a bit of a trade hub for CANZUK. I know they wouldn't want to join, but it would be cool to have CANZUKUSA.

  33. @josephocean4127

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    What a great opportunity for a better tomorrow!

  34. @davewebb2936

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    CANZUK!!!
    It won't and can't happen because the CANZ governments don't want it or need it as they are already in the CPTPP,! Aren't they?
    The CANZUK countries (if it ever happens) in the CPTPP will have to follow the same rules as the rest of the members, won't they?
    So if they do, why not use all the first letters of the other country's names as well and call it. JVCMANCAMPSBB?😂😂😂
    I didn't put the UK, because we are definitely not united!
    So I put a B for Britain and an extra A in for Canada, as you would.😊
    Plus all those other country's letters are in the CPTPP as well, aren't they?
    Also, you can't have a club within a club with different rules, can you?

  35. @WheresTheSauce

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Some would wonder if this was England's long term plan all along.

  36. @hyenalaughingmatter8103

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    terrorist movements.. yeah The terrortists in the UK goverment lol

  37. @rideausheep

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    It's far more than trading of goods its economic trade with our banks so all our banks may have easier trading with Asia and the USA. that being said it needs to incorporate Singapore. This would also give us access to a wider world, and the movement of people which will give us an unseen advantage.

  38. @youseeitsm3meskids91

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Quebec: O h. N o

  39. @Mastersharkmapping

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    i would love to see canzuk in action

  40. @saintarj4552

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    I think it should be a single nation, and then in 2022 I'll be a CANZUK and EU citizen, I'll be able to go anywhere

  41. @micstica

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Sounds like something Cecil Rhodes dreamed up. A way I guess for the home country to once again control the colonies.

  42. @richardturner5364

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    As an English Man I would rather have people here from CANZUK Nations living and working here rather than Eastern Europeans. I can't explain to you how hard it is competing in the unskilled job market while we were in the EU. We have educated kids leaving school who can't compete against Polish people who talk very limited English. It's even harder to explain how Europeans had more rights than me in my own country.

  43. @carnivaltym

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Canzuk could be an incredibly beneficial step forward.

  44. @conveyor2

    January 1, 2024 at 4:53 am

    Won't happen. Canada and NZ are more aligned with China.

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